The details of Java EE 6 have been getting hashed out for quite a few months in the JSR 316 expert group, which I am part of. The goal of this article is to give you an overview of the changes in Java ...

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Security has been somewhat of an afterthought as part of the Java EE development environment. Developers have either had to implement security at the server level or use a third-party framework. This ...

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Java being fully open-sourced has been a long, long time coming. While Sun open-sourced some of Java as long ago as November 2006, actually using Java in an open-source way was… troublesome. Just ask ...

As I described in an earlier post, Packt Publishing invited me to review the book Java EE 6 Cookbook for Securing, Tuning, and Extending Enterprise Applications. In this post, I provide a review of ...

Update: A few days after this article’s publication, Oracle issued a statement to Ars saying that the company remains committed to Java EE development. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Oracle ...