The Java EE 7 specification has evolved quite a lot since the early days of the specification. One one hand, Java EE 7 continues the ease of development push that characterized prior releases by bringing further simplification to enterprise development. On the other hand, Java EE 7 tackle new emerging requirements such as HTML 5 support.
Last but not least, Java EE 7 also adds new, APIs such as the REST client API in JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, JSON-P, JMS 2, Batch Processing, etc.
This session will give an technical overview of the Java EE 7 platform. GlassFish 4.0, the world first Java EE 7 Application Server, will be used to demonstrate some of the Java EE 7 features.