Oracle’s first slide is a TEN LINE disclaimer from their legal department.  Which must be standard because nothing was forward looking.

JEE 6

• Split  sub platforms so less large
• JEE web profile
• New: managed beans, bean validation, CDI (dependency injection)
• ejb 3.1 lite lets you use ejb in a war file
• Ear files are now for backward compatibility
• Encouraged use of setting up everything in annotations instead of web.xmk [I think somethings belong eternalized]
• Putting a web-fragment.xml file inside your meta-inf directory lets jars contribute content to the web.xml
• Can promote a managed bean to a “real ejb” to take advantage of transactions
• Showed response builders for web services. Nice concise way if setting status, content type, result, etc.
• Ejb 3.1 supports singleton and start up beans. Can set scheduled tasks and asynchronous tasks in annotations as well.
• Going to great lengths to avoid mentioning Spring,  Guice was cited as the comparison/example of dependency injection. Speaking of Spring, this is the first time I’ve seen this much JEE 6 code. It looks a lot like Spring.

Glassfish

• Web profile ships with REST
• Glassfish is wonderful because Oracle says so. Not taking further notes on this. Do people really use Glassfish in production?