# Java EE 6 And Rethinking - JUG HH Afterglow

I really enjoyed the session at Lehmann's (cool book store with impressive amount of not only Java books).  It was organized by JUG in Hamburg. We had interesting, late night, discussions - and finally some consensus:DAO is not completely dead - only in the majority of all cases :-).EJB 3.1 are lighter than expectedWicket is cool and JSF just works - especially with EJB 3.1.OSGI inside the applicationserver could solve some interesting problems in HA and highly dynamic environments.Layering is not always good.WAR deployment of no-interface beans is interesting for small web apps with databinding...Async methods are interesting - especially in case they can be monitored and managed by the appserver.Singletons are interesting for pre-initialization etc....and other stuff - it was finally to late.This time I used GF v3 prelude b24 with Netbeans 6.5 development build (200809130201) to show some new stuff. It worked surprisingly well...Thanks to the organizers!