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

Another great in­de­pen­dent ar­ti­cle on how the app serv­er is dis­ap­pear­ing, with the ESB go­ing along:

This post was based on old con­tent and is no longer rel­e­vant.

Visit our Distrib­uted Trans­ac­tions Tu­to­r­i­al for equiv­a­lent con­tent.

We found this nice tu­to­r­i­al by Gonça­lo Mar­ques cov­er­ing ba­sic two-phase com­mit with Spring, Tom­cat and Atomikos.

En­joy!

PS with our lat­est Tom­cat in­te­gra­tion - avail­able to com­mer­cial sub­scribers - things are even eas­i­er

In­ter­est­ing in­de­pen­dent sur­vey: 68% uses a web con­tain­er like Tom­cat or Jet­ty.

Cred­it for the sur­vey is due to Zero Turnaround