Yesterday, 16 Java developers from Dublin met online to discuss What technologies should I be learning in the next 12 months? The results of the Virtual Java Meetup are here.If you couldn’t be bothered reading the entire thing , here’s the summary:

  • Web services are going to be big, but only if they can be simple.
  • EJB 3 and Netbeans are both worth taking a look at again, they are now much better than the previous versions that gave them a bad name.
  • Middleware (e.g. workflow and Rules Engines) are interesting in a corporate environment, but there is a high barrier to entry.
  • Struts , and to a lesser extent JSF , will continue to be dominant Java Web frameworks, despite not being the best technical choice.
  • A lot of companies are still using Java 1.4, but may make the leap to Java 6 (Mustang).
  • Service orientated Architecuture (SOA) is a nice idea, but not so many projects have been implemented using it.
  • IDE’s (Netbeans / Eclipse / JDeveloper) can deliver a lot of value, but only if backed up by lower level tools (e.g. Ant and Maven).
  • More for the next 24 months , keep an eye on Apache Service Mix.

What do you think? Did we miss anything?

     对于我来说,我觉得我会比较关注webservice,当然还有struct action2,不知道和webwork月多少区别.