And the results of the Virtual Java Meetup are … here. Names have been changed to protect the innocent.
If you couldn’t be bothered reading the entire thing , the results of the Dublin Jury on ‘what technologies should I be learning in the next 12 months’ are:
- Web services are going to be big, but only if they can be simple.
- EJB 3 and Netbeans are both worth taking a look at again, they are now much better than the previous versions that gave them a bad name.
- Middleware (e.g. workflow and Rules Engines) are interesting in a corporate environment, but there is a high barrier to entry.
- Struts , and to a lesser extent JSF , will continue to be dominant Java Web frameworks, despite not being the best technical choice.
- A lot of companies are still using Java 1.4, but may make the leap to Java 6 (Mustang).
- Service Orientated Architecuture (SOA) is a nice idea, but not so many projects have been implemented using it.
- IDE’s (Netbeans / Eclipse / JDeveloper) can deliver a lot of value, but only if backed up by lower level tools (e.g. Ant and Maven).
- More for the next 24 months , keep an eye on Apache Service Mix.
Paul Browne 