JavaEE.Next(): Java EE 7, 8, and Beyond

The effort to define the Java EE 7 platform is well underway and the horizons for Java EE 8 are emerging. This session looks into some of the key changes the community can expect. The goal of this session is to foster discussion and participation around these changes.

Some of the changes discussed include cloud support, retiring EJB 2 entity beans and JAX-RPC, greater alignment with CDI, a long-awaited update to the JCache API, WebSocket/HTML 5 support, a standard API for JSON processing, the next version of JAX-RS, an overhaul of JMS, long-awaited concurrency utilities, batch processing in Java EE and much, much more.