Java Enterprise Development - 2010 style

• You use the Java EE 6 Web Profile, and don´t need to pack your application into an EAR file.
• You code your domain model using a xml-less ORM fram framework (JPA). JPA actually makes sense and does what its supposed todo without fuss.
• You let your JPA implementation generate your database schema for you, which it does with surprising efficiency.
• You use modern, component-based view frameworks (like Facelets or Wicket) , and get by writing little or no XML for defining navigation (remember struts-config.xml?)
• You use annotations everywhere (your JPA entities, your Session Beans, your Servlets) and even start to forget XML syntax
• You don´t bother writing deployment descriptors for all your session beans. You just add one annotation to any POJO and it automatically gains EJB powers.
• You only write Remote Interfaces when you actually needs a component to be remotely accessible.
• You have no idea what CORBA is.
• You have a vague idea of what JNDI is, but you use dependency injection everywhere to get what you need.
• You develop using a lightweight application server (glassfish 3) that redeploys your application in seconds every time you make a change. Most of the time you don't even notice it.

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jjviana/archive/2010/02/26/java-enterprise-development-2010-style