At the recent JavaOne conference held in the U.S, Oracle shared its vision for strengthened investment and innovation in Java. The software giant described how Java will continue to grow as the most powerful, scalable, secure, and open platform for the global developer community. Developers are the early adopters, and the decisions they make can have a big impact on a business’ IT capabilities and strategies for years to come. By Understanding the need of the hour SiliconIndia organized the Java conference for the Bangalorean developers and architects. When the best minds are at work it’s understood to see a packed auditorium of more than 400 people enthusiastic to listen to the likes of Infosys, IBM, HCL, Mindtree, eBay, UST Global, Thoughtworks, Spiderlogic and VIA.

Enterprise Java
Despite lacking the support of big businesses, in recent times technologies like Enterprise JavaBean grew in popularity and are adopted more and more by businesses who had become disillusioned with EJBs. Sangeetha S, Principal - Education & Research - E-Commerce Research Labs, Infosys Technologies explains how the latest specification further simplifies EJB development. It is the server-side component architecture for Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE). EJB technology enables rapid and simplified development of distributed, transactional, secure and portable applications based on Java technology. “New EJB features such as Singletons, asynchronous invocations, and calendar-based automatic timers and EJB 3.1 works well with other Java EE 6 technologies, such as Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) and JAX-RS,” she says.

Peak at E-Bay Developer’s Forum
“We never knew E-Bay too had a developer platform, as its e-commerce glitz has always been discussed more,” says one developer attendee. While it relates both Java and general developers to be a part of e-Commerce and m-Commerce ecosystem, it also provides monetization prospects to them. Rajesh Ramachandran, GM - Head of IPC, eBay India Product Center says, “The apps developed for this platform pay the developers handsomely, with 80 percent going to the developers and 20 percent retained by eBay. Developers can build apps to help the sellers in eBay or apps that can bring in traffic to the website”. Although the e-Commerce has mustered a strong foothold, the m-Commerce still needs a push. With mobile commerce, one can reach a larger customer base, communicating via vernacular languages. However more needs to be done in this area for it to grow into a full-fledged business. And developers can sure do a lot in this segment.

The Best Practices
It’s shown that if a website is 500 ms slower this amounts to 20 percent drop in traffic or if it’s even 100 ms slower that amounts to one percent drop in sales. Or even if there is a downtime in a trading system it costs millions of dollars. So, would anyone tolerate slow pages if there are options?