TS-3361: Java™ EE 5 Platform: Even Easier With Tools
This presentation focused on NetBeans 5.5 as a tools-platform for Java EE 5. I really dislike presentations like this one because they draw in people interested in Java EE 5, but the presenters have the goal of advertising their tool or platform. If I wanted to be sold something, I would have gone to the Pavilion to hang out in the vendor booths and score some free stuff.
The only interesting part was hearing about what's going to be present in Java EE 5:
- regular POJOs with annotations instead of deployment descriptors
- incorporation of JAX-WS technology for web services
- dependency injection, a la Spring
- better default behavior & configuration (huh?)
I've got mixed feeling about annotations because they have the ability to pollute the source code with deployment information. And, if the deployment information changes in the generated descriptors, they become out-of-sync with the compiled code.