Johannes Brodwall Exilesoft Java Apocalypse now! Johannes Brodwall Exilesoft

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I love the smell of XML in the morning. It smells like… victory.

Prelude:

Where are the Java projects going?

Maybe it is just me… … but customers: “Java = meh” … and I surprised myself by agreeing

Java is my favorite language, but… … Oracle is ruining it … JBoss is ruining it … SpringSource is ruining it … you guys are ruining it

«Don’t reinvent the wheel» - «Everywhere», 20XX by Everyone

Part I:

The nightmare

XML APIs gone wild

A simple XML file

Parsing with DOM

Whops – right this time!

But the file may vary

And the Java gets… worse

And worse

Making it worse

I know! Let’s use JAXB!

Just need to deal with this null pointer…

And this other one…

But wait – they didn’t follow the XSD!

(Of course they didn’t)

And we need to map it to a domain object

There must be a tool for that!

Running away

The Java EE software development process

Exception Google Stack overflow Tweak Deploy Waaaaait Poke

Those that get it JavaScript Ruby Python Clojure? Those that don’t Scala JSF Groovy Clojure? “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” - George Santayana

Are you using technology to solve your problems?

Or so that you don’t have to face your problems?

… yet

Part II:

The dream

Java’s greatest gift The IDE

“I can see how TDD works for toy examples…”

“… but how can we use it when we have all these really complicated technologies???”

I think I see your problem right here...) (Hint: “all these complicated technologies” I think I see your problem right here...)

How to make real problems more like toy problems?

(Tip: Not by getting more toys)

He who gives up compilation time for refactoring menu options deserves neither - Benjamin Franklin

Less magic!

Parsing a file

Oh, that could be null!

Mapping to a domain object

A SOAP service is just a retarded REST service

Part III:

The road to a better place

A better framework

No calculator until…

Don’t use a framework you couldn’t have written yourself

“But what about transactions?”

“We need an annotation for that!”

Have you ever misconfigured @Transaction?

Three lines of magic!

Three lines of magic! plain Java

You can replace AOP with three lines of plain Java

A better application server

You probably just need to listen to HTTP requests

Better templates

Eaxy is not meant for public consumption

Just to show that Java EE solves wrong problem

Just to show that Java EE solves wrong problem

Epilogue:

I don’t really mean it, do I?

Frameworks solve 80% of the job…

… and makes the rest 10 times as hard

“Why did Hibernate suddenly slow down?”

“How do I make JBoss behave the way I want?”

“How do I implement a custom SOAP header with JAX-WS?”

“Why did my dependencies not inject?”

“How do I do anything with Spring”

“Java EE is a path to the dark side. Java EE leads to anger “Java EE is a path to the dark side. Java EE leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to … suffering” - Yoda

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