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:

A few weeks back we've been send­ing around this poll via our newslet­ter sub­scriber base. We got a lot of an­swers so I will not go into every sin­gle one of them (and we can't send in­di­vid­ual replies, BTW, be­cause the sur­vey was anony­mous). How­ev­er, here is a dis­til­la­tion of the re­sults, and our com­ments / ques­tions to each.

Mi­croser­vices are all about split­ting up re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of your do­main's bound­ed con­text into sev­er­al HTTP-like ser­vices, de­ployed in­de­pen­dent­ly. So es­sen­tial­ly it means split­ting up process bound­aries across dif­fer­ent ser­vices - away from the mono­lith...

Scal­ing ap­pli­ca­tions to the web and the cloud - com­bined with con­tin­u­ous de­ploy­ment au­toma­tion prac­tices - is not easy. The cur­rent rigid and over­sized in­fra­struc­ture plat­forms don't help here.

So it's time for some­thing dif­fer­ent: dis­cov­er our in­creas­ing­ly pop­u­lar "no-appserv­er-par­a­digm", en­abling you to use all of the en­ter­prise fea­tures with­out the heavy plat­form bur­den...

Down­load the full ar­ti­cle here!