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:

Another interesting blog post showing off Atomikos with Spring Boot and JPA.

As soon as we get some spare time (sigh) we're hoping to look a bit more into Spring Boot, BTW.

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