And again: death of the ap­pli­ca­tion serv­er an­nounced

What bet­ter way to start the new year than with a glimpse of what the fu­ture will bring for Java?

In this in­ter­view, Eber­hard Wolff dis­cuss­es why he thinks the ap­pli­ca­tion serv­er is dead.

Some high­lights:

• To­day, most app servers only de­ploy one ap­pli­ca­tion on them (main­ly for iso­la­tion)
• He en­vi­sions a Jar de­ploy­ment mod­el in­stead
• Mon­i­tor­ing can be pro­vid­ed by ex­ter­nal tools rather than the app serv­er

It's good to see that af­ter more than 8 years af­ter we in­tro­duced it, our jee with­out ap­pli­ca­tion serv­er par­a­digm shift is more rel­e­vant than ever! And as usu­al, we're here to give you the trans­ac­tions you need with­out the ap­pli­ca­tion serv­er.

UPDATE: Eber­hard also has an ar­ti­cle on this here...