Roberto Chinnici a senior staff engineer at Sun talks about the new Java EE 6 at JavaPolis, One of his topic is the Theme for Java Java ee 6 which is the RIGTHSIZING THE PLATFORM and I find it has a lots of enhancement that makes the platform more lightweight.

Rightsizing means

Part I Introduction

Purpose

Audience

Scope/Exclusions

Assumptions

Definitions

Part II Deliverables

Data Model

Executable Software

Development Tools

Part III Development Rules & Guidelines

Quality Assurance

Coding Style

Data Source Configuration

Source File Layout

Programming Techniques

Internal Documentation

Methods and Instance Variables

Code within methods

Custom Tags

Error handling

Exception handling

Identification

Response

Displaying

Interactive error handling

Identification

Response

Displaying

Logging

XML Compressors & Accelerators

Java Naming Conventions

Servlets

JavaBeans

Tags

Other Classes and Components

Java Package Naming

Part IV Design Pattern and Architectural Frameworks

Architecture Overview

Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF)

JavaServer Faces (JSF)

Struts Framework

Java Server Pages

Abstract Persistence Layer

Deployment Pattern

Part V Application Environment

Client Tier

Middle Tier

Data Tier

VI Reports

Designing Reports

Charting

VII Email

VIII Scheduler

Thats it, anyone has a good idea? or Im in the right track?

I watch the conference from QCon subjected as "What will the Future of Java Development Be? "

This is just my own perspective, Java will become an major player language 2-5 years from this present, now that Web 2.0 boom starting last year or so. Web application is becomming the new standard in developing company new systems now a days coz of its lightweight in nature, of course Java EE/ J2EE will hit. The java comunity also is get bigger and bigger, lots of other languages developer shift to java language (im one of those... heheheh). But what I am scare about is that Java API also gets bigger in size, as soon as theres a new release, I hope java JSR community will make an action with it, because size does matter. the little the better and fast. Its nice to see new injection feature to the language but lets keep the language more simplier.  Java has a great impact to the world of computing.