As I already wrote, I am at the JAX in Wiesbaden this week. It is my first big Java conference and I am kinda excited.

My colleagues and I arrived in time and the day started right away with the Welcome-Speech from Sebastian Meyen. He told us about the how JAX started, the sessions today, trends, and the evening program (poker!). However, I waited for the keynote from Rod Johnson. Rod is the creator of the Spring Framework and currently involved in the JCP 316, JEE 6. He made no secret about how he feels for the JEE 5 stack and about the situation right now: EJB will be dead and JEE’s last hope is JEE 6 (all about what the user/programmer wants and simplicity). JEE 6 is formed around two slogans: Extensibility and Profiles. Extensibility means that it must be simpler to integrate frameworks in JEE and don’t be stucked to the shipped ones. This should help to get companies/developer involved and so create more competition in the JEE environment. Today it is all about IBM and Oracle/BEA in the JEE server market. Profiles help to get only what you want. Normally the full JEE stack is huge, but only a subset is needed. For JEE 6 three profiles are planned like light, medium, and all-you-can-eat.

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