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Re:An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java, Part 3: Web Development by UK-AL on Thursday May 15, 2014 @12:28PM (#7750463)
I put my money on Spring, Hibernate, JBoss lasting longer than Scala, Akka etc.

Those technologies have stayed on, while other trends have come and and go.

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Re:An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java, Part 3: Web Development by tmarthal on Thursday May 15, 2014 @04:43PM (#7752119)
Actually, it is basically Pivotal versus TypeSafe, not just Spring versus Akka or anything like that.

I put my money on TypeSafe.

Pivotal still (05/2014) doesn't have Java8 support for some of it's frameworks (grails https://jira.grails.org/browse/GRAILS-11063 ). TypeSafe pre-released versions of Play that take full advantage of Java8 features.

Given that if you need to run a Java 1.4.2 app on top of JBoss (or Glassfish!) then the types of technologies that these two companies are pushing are solving problems in a different domain.

And arguably the PermGen change in Java8 would benefit Grails/Groovy the most.

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Re:An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java, Part 3: Web Development by olavgg on Thursday May 15, 2014 @06:01PM (#7752514)
Grails 2.4 will support Java8, and RC2 was released today!
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