Back To Real Java, Bye Bye J2EE

I changed job recently. In this new job, it is refreshing to see Java used like in the old days, without the J2EE layers, and without the extra IBM layers of my previous job. Granted, the fresh Java approach does not apply to many projects, because a lot of apps are just about interfacing a database with a web interface. But Spring success showed that even for many of those projects, fresh Java approach with a small framework is enough.

This makes me think about people (on the net) complaining that in some job interviews, candidates were not able to tell how to get a EJB instance, etc.. Those kind of question are really stupid, as what matters much much more are EJBs concepts and concerns, i.e. what it tries to solve and how it tried to solve it, and for example, what is good/bad about it.

Java is much nicer to use in the old way. Everything seems fast to do. I am surprised it is more pleasant to work with Java in this kind of environment than in a web/J2EE environment.

Back To Real Java, Bye Bye J2EE

I changed job recently. In this new job, it is refreshing to see Java used like in the old days, without the J2EE layers, and without the extra IBM layers of my previous job. Granted, the fresh Java approach does not apply to many projects, because a lot of apps are just about interfacing a database with a web interface. But Spring success showed that even for many of those projects, fresh Java approach with a small framework is enough.

This makes me think about people (on the net) complaining that in some job interviews, candidates were not able to tell how to get a EJB instance, etc.. Those kind of question are really stupid, as what matters much much more are EJBs concepts and concerns, i.e. what it tries to solve and how it tried to solve it, and for example, what is good/bad about it.

Java is much nicer to use in the old way. Everything seems fast to do. I am surprised it is more pleasant to work with Java in this kind of environment than in a web/J2EE environment.

Moving weekly Javablog stats to a new blog

Javablogs.com top 10 weekly/monthly/yearly entries were starting to pollute my blog too much for my taste. It is more appropriate to dedicate a blog to them. That is what I should have done in the first place as it is very easy to have many blogs with blogger.com.

So you'll find at javabuzz.blogspot.com the weekly top 10 most read entries on Javablogs, and sometimes more.