[vox] What is you opinion on having a Java EE talk for February?

Brian Lavender brian at brie.com
Mon Mar 5 16:11:52 PST 2012


Mike,

Have you used weld or more commonly known as Context Dependency Injection?

You probably have more experience than I do. I have been running throgh 
technologies and tooling using JBoss Developer Studio and Netbeans. 


brian

On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 10:14:15AM -0800, Michael Wenk wrote:
> Speaking as a Java Web developer, I think that java works well in the
> web.  However, I have yet to see a project that really needs something
> like EJB.  A simple servlet container like tomcat or jetty coupled
> with spring and optionally hibernate if you want a true ORM works
> wonders.  For UI, I have used a ton of different frameworks, from JSF,
> to Wicket to GWT, and I have come to the conclusion that for the most
> part they all have enough wrong with them to make it unpleasant at
> best to deal with.  If I had my choice, I would likely go with
> something like jQuery and a JSR311 implementation, either CXF or
> jersey for server side.
> 
> YMMV,
> Mike
> 
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Brian Lavender <brian at brie.com> wrote:
> > At last night's meeting, I mentioned I could do a Java Web talk for February.
> > What do you guys think about a Java EE talk for March?
> >
> > It seems that many favor python. While I think Python is great, I think there
> > is a lot of wonderful stuff going with Java as far as doing web applications
> > and the ultra wide application stuff with REST, security, EJBs, etc that you
> > can do today. Netbeans and Glassfish are doing a lot of great stuff. And now
> > with Java EE, you can dump much of that XML configuration stuff so many
> > loathed with J2EE.
> >
> > What is your take?
> >
> > brian
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> > Brian Lavender
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> >
> > "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
> > make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
> > way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
> >
> > Professor C. A. R. Hoare
> > The 1980 Turing award lecture
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Brian Lavender
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture


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