Java isn’t Dead

Bob McWhirter

Welcome!

Director R&P, JBoss

Founder The Codehaus

Founder Drools

Co-founder WildFly Swarm

BobMcWhirter

Java is

dead!

JavaOutlaw

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Growing Slower !=

Dead

Dead or Mature?

Last 5 years

#1Java is

#1Bengaluru is

Nobody says “The keyboard is dead!”

InnovationStill

Happens

Better JavaEE

‣ Java EE 7

‣ Modular

‣ Manageable

‣ Battle-tested

Smaller Enterprise Java

‣ Java EE

‣ Microservices

‣ Netflix OSS

‣ Spring Boot

Reactive Enterprise Java

‣ Reactive Patterns

‣ Asynchronous message-passing

‣ Microservices

‣ Polyglot

And that’s just

Java is the JVM not just the language

20 years of research

20 years of improvement

OpenJDK

invokedynamic

lambdas

streams

‣ Dynamic

‣ DSLs

‣ Strong Java integration

‣ Real threads

‣ Strong Java integration

‣ More performant than MRI

‣ Based on WildFly

‣ Ruby on Rails

‣ Enterprise features

‣ Based on WildFly

‣ Clojure

‣ Enterprise features

Even if you think the Java language is dead…

the JVM is not

What about

Java EE?

“We are strongly committed to transparency in our work on the Java EE Platform. We are therefore publicly announcing that we are now changing our target time frame for the completion of this work to the first half of 2017.”

via blogs.oracle.com

‣ Servlet 4.0

‣ MVC

‣ JMS 2.1

‣ JCache

‣ Server-Sent Events

‣ Configuration

‣ JCA

‣ JAX-RS

Possibly in question?

but…

Many people still care

about promoting the future of Java EE

Plenty of awesome enterprise java stuff

beyond Java EE

Java is NOT dead!

Thank you!

Visit our booth.

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