BANGALORE, INDIA: Java platform has come a long way from its first release, the 1.4, back in 1995. “Today, with the latest Java Enterprise Edition - the Java EE 6 - it has outgrown the myth that ‘Java EE is a monolith one size fits all’,” says Arun Gupta, GlassFish Guy, Oracle Corp, while speaking at the Spark IT 2010 event here today.

Features of Java EE 6 include web profile 1.0, fully integrated mid-sized profile, converged technologies and extensibility. It also features a standard way to define how to integrate frameworks, such as Strats, Spring, Lift, Apache Wicket etc, unlike the earlier editions. Java EE6 also heralds ease of use as WebXML is optional while writing a server net. EE 6 will also extend support to multiple languages, such as Django, JavaFx, Scala, Grrovy, Lift, Clojure, Jruby and Cobol.

”These languages can be successfully run on Java platform going forward,’ said Gupta.

A Java ecosystem allows a full spectrum of technology as well. Moreover, a Java developer can assume multiple roles, such as of communication, enterprise, BPM, Web 2.0 etc. Java technology also powers converged technologies, which are emerging on a large scale. There are multiple virtual machines in it, which makes it very robust.

Java platform allows one to create composite application, such as Enterprise Bus, service engine, Intelligent Event Processing, XSLT, data mash-up, encoding etc. and has a wide range of adapters, communications and databases.

Java also has several offerings for Ajax including Ajax Pulling, Ajax Push (Long Push), Ajax Push (Streaming) etc. And also, there are several tool kits on Java, such as ICEFaces, RichFaces, which offer Ajax integration. It also supports JavaFx.

Java EE 6 will serve as a platform for creating and deploying rich Internet application across all screens of life such as TV, mobile laptop etc soon.