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Java EE 5 Development Waiting on Vendors

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cart-before-horse dept.

twofish writes "Java EE 5 was a major update and most of the major application server vendors do not yet have compliant versions released. Dr. Dobb's reports that this is delaying most solution providers from developing products based on it, as their customers are not ready for them. However there is some significant movement among the big players. Among the major vendors, Sun has released support, WebLogic is close with JBoss following soon after. Oracle has not announced a road map and IBM is lagging significantly behind, with full support not due until 2008."

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  1. It's just too damn complex. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The architecture of Java 5 EE is unnecessarily complex. But that seems to be a trend with object-oriented development, Java-style. While other OO languages like Smalltalk and Ruby support simplistic, yet extremely powerful, development, Java just burdens the developer. In many cases, it goes overboard with design patterns and object hierarchies.

    While object oriented techniques often can make large-scale development far more manageable, Java almost goes out of its way to make it difficult. I think part of the problem is the Java community mindset. It's almost as if kudos are given to those who can make their class framework as complex as possible, while a framework 1/10th of the size and complexity would be more than sufficient.

    True object oriented development is about not writing code. The fewer lines of code, the fewer bugs. I hope that someday the Java crowd realizes this.