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This essay developed out of conversations I've had with several other programmers about why Java smelled suspicious. It's not a critique of Java!

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Java and the Future

December 1, 2008-LEJB 3.1: EJB New and Improved!
The EJB 3.0 specification was a huge improvement from what you were used to in the early versions of EJB. Available as an early draft, EJB 3.1 has many more features and is even easier to use.

December 1, 2008 -Should Java Assert that Network I/O Can't Occur on the UI Thread?
Doing network I/O on the user interface (UI) thread is bad. Most developers know that and can tell you why; unfortunately, it's still done.

Server Configurations

We said earlier that an application server is a collection of J2EE services. JBoss makes it easy to mix and match these services by grouping them in a directory structure called a Server Configuration. If you look in the JBOSS_HOME/server/ directory, you should see three named Server Configurations: all, default, and minimal.

If you don't specify a configuration on boot, JBoss uses the default configuration. The default configuration is the one that fulfills the J2EE 1.4 spec, so it is a reasonable place for most developers to start. The minimal configuration is bare dirt--nothing but a JNDI and a Log4j service. All is at the opposite end of the spectrum--everything in the minimal and default configurations, plus advanced services like clustering.

Let's shut down JBoss and start it with a different configuration. Press Ctrl-C in the JBoss console window to shut it down. Now type run -c minimal. You should see far fewer services launch and a dramatically shorter startup time.
It is easy to create your own Server Configuration. Simply copy one of the existing directory trees and give it a new name. For example, copy the default/ directory to a new one named myapp/. Now start JBoss using the new configuration--press Ctrl-C to stop the currently running configuration, and then type run -c myapp.