Author Archives: Reza Rahman

DevNexus 2018 was held in historic Atlanta on February 21-23. For those of you not familiar with it, DevNexus is the most significant Java centric conference in the South Eastern US and now perhaps even at a national level. It was started by JBoss Java Champion Burr Sutter and organized by the Atlanta JUG (currentlyContinue reading “Java EE @ DevNexus 2018”

Servlet 4 has just posted a public review (this is the last step before the proposed final specification). Servlet 4 is easily one of the most critical components of Java EE 8. The primary aim of Servlet 4 is to bring first-class, core standards based HTTP/2 support to the server-side Java ecosystem. Most of theContinue reading “Servlet 4 Public Review Starts Now!”

“Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine.”                                                   Continue reading “Spring, Java EE and the Lilliputian Wars”

As some of you are aware, the Java EE Guardians and DZone jointly conducted a community survey to help determine Java EE 8 features prior to JavaOne 2016. You may also be aware that we shared the results of that survey with Oracle before the details of the renewed Java EE 8 scope was announced.Continue reading “DZone/Java EE Guardians Survey Results: JSON”

One of the most important things to do at this stage of the life-cycle of Java EE is highlight successful adoption stories at a regular cadence. The community has been doing just that for a long time including at JavaOne. A number of these stories are curated here. Luqman Saeed recently agreed to share his JavaContinue reading “Java EE Adoption Story from Luqman Saeed”

As some of you are aware, the Java EE Guardians and DZone jointly conducted a community survey to help determine Java EE 8 features prior to JavaOne 2016. You may also be aware that we shared the results of that survey with Oracle before the details of the renewed Java EE 8 scope was announced. Now is a greatContinue reading “DZone/Java EE Guardians Survey Results: Microservices”

JAX-RS 2.1 just posted it’s first early draft review. Because of the now accelerated Java EE 8 schedule, the rest of the steps towards finalization of the specification is going to happen very quickly. As the release versioning indicates, this is a relatively minor JAX-RS release. However there are a few very important changes inContinue reading “JAX-RS 2.1 Early Draft Review Starts Now!”

For those unaware, Vaadin is a popular GWT based RIA Java web framework. You may also be surprised that the Vaadin community is 150,000+ strong. To better understand this community the Vaadin folks fairly recently ran a survey. One of the things the Vaadin folks wanted to know is how often Java EE is used comparedContinue reading “Vaadin Community Survey Confirms Java EE Used More Broadly Than Alternatives”

The Java EE Security API just posted it’s first early draft review. Because of the now accelerated Java EE 8 schedule, the rest of the steps towards finalization of the specification is going to happen very quickly. Java EE security is one of the most anticipated changes in Java EE 8. This is the caseContinue reading “Java EE Security Early Draft Review Starts Now!”

As some of you are aware, the Java EE Guardians and DZone jointly conducted a community survey to help determine Java EE 8 features prior to JavaOne 2016. You may also be aware that we shared the results of that survey with Oracle before the details of the renewed Java EE 8 scope was announced.Continue reading “DZone/Java EE Guardians Survey Results: Standards and Innovation”