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Re: [jakarta.ee-spec] Defining Jakarta EE 12 Scope in Program Plan
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These are the reasons Microsoft would vote -1 on a Jakarta AI/LLM
specification at the current time:
* The entire area is still very much fast moving shifting sands.
It's just not ready for any kind of "one specification to rule
them all" effort. Any such effort is bound to get it wrong -
perhaps completely wrong.
* This is an area that requires extremely deep domain expertise
that most Jakarta EE vendors simply do not have. The people that
have the correct domain expertise are really not ready to come
together in any standards body.
* To the extent that "one API to rule them all" can even work in
this space, LangChain and LangChain4j already have significant
traction. By virtue of being just an open source project in an
emerging space that can move fast, not worry about
quality/stability too much, etc it will always have a competitive
advantage. Any competing Jakarta EE specification is unlikely to
gain relative credibility or adoption against LangChain4j, so such
an effort has a high probability of doing more harm than good.
What Microsoft believes to be a prudent move is for Jakarta EE
vendors to collectively ensure that LangChain4j includes a robust
CDI extension that can work with both Jakarta EE and MicroProfile.
We should all promote this extension. This will also earn Jakarta
EE vendors some badly needed goodwill with open source projects.
Indeed longer term, Jakarta EE should look for ways to officially
promote open source projects that embrace CDI and Jakarta EE.
On 10/29/2024 5:55 AM, Luqman Saeed via
jakarta.ee-community wrote:
I agree. I think we need to clarify the problem
with EJB. Is it technical, as in there's a lot of baggage/fat
that simply cannot be shed without completely killing the tech?
Especially from an implementation perspective?
Or is it more a problem of perception, where a whole
generation of developers have grown up hearing nothing but
horror stories from the days of entity beans and thus, would
want to steer clear of EJB and consequently, the platform
itself?
Personally I lean towards "spring cleaning" the internals
of EJBs if it's a problem of the former and leaving the
technology alone.
Why? Because it just works. A single annotation does a lot
of heavy lifting on my behalf. And that is cool. It's also
easy to teach newcomers.
From a business perspective, I'd ask, which would add more
weight to portraying the platform as modernising?
- A test spec/attempt to standardize consuming AI on the
platform?
- Or killing EJBs?
If the goal is to portray the platform as alive and
modernising, I think nothing is more a testament than an
incubator spec that taps into arguably the most hyped tech of
our time?
We may have different views of the whole AI stuff, but if
Spring already has Spring AI, Quarkus has native integration
with LangChaing4J, where's Jakarta?
So though EJB may be a polarising tech depending on who you
speak with, I think if the goal of EE 12 is to show that it's
still a technology that is evolving with the times, then our
target lies elsewhere.
Not necessarily EJB. At least not this time.
I also think that until now, EJBs are not
fully replacable with other Jakarta EE constructs. And thus
we shouldn’t try to hide EJBs from developers learning
Jakarta EE. In fact, teaching developers about EJBs
simplifies things a lot. With just a single @Stateless or
@Songleton annotation they get transactions automatically,
can easily define timers, concurrency is handled (no state
should be in stateless, singletons are syncrhonized).
Yes, it’s possible to rewrite EJBs with other
constructs but the resulting code is much more verbose and
easy to get wrong - timers in Concurrency require to call a
method to trigger them, running a method on startup is more
verbose compared to @Startup on a singleton EJB,
ApplicationScoped CDI beans are not thread safe unlike
Singleton EJBs, @RolesAllowed only works on EJBs and not CDI
beans, etc.
Jakarta EE still needs improvements to fully
replace EJB. And even then it would be good to have a single
CDI annotation to enable all the features of EJB in a CDI
bean. Until then, it’s better to teach EJBs and then explain
how to use the new concepts in Jakarta EE to avoid EJBs for
advanced developers.
Ondro
Hi
all,
I completely agree with that. EJBs are not bad per se
and should not be abandoned.
Everyone is free to use them or not.
Best regards,
Bernd
Am 28.10.24 um 14:54 schrieb Ralph Soika via
jakarta.ee-community:
> Hello,
>
> I became aware of this discussion through the topic
"EJB -> CDI migration" and would like to briefly
> share my thoughts about it.
> My fear here is to "ban" EJBs as something
outdated, complicated and unnecessary. But is that
right?
> I myself run with imixs.org <https://www.imixs.org>
a very large Jakarta EE project. And my opinion
> is that you should always implement the
DataAccessLayer as also complex ProcessingServices in a
> stateless EJB in order to make use of the
transaction capability.
> I do know that you can also use CDI for data
access. But is it the same?
>
> For example in my own project (a BPMN workflow
engine) the DataAccess Service as also the Engine
> itself is implemented as a stateless EJB.
> A project that is using the library just need to
inject the WorkflowEngine. The user does not have
> to think about transactions or EJBs at this moment.
The app developer can now extend the engine
> behavior by implementing so called 'Plug-Ins' as
simple CDI beans. Such a CDI bean is a kind of
> adapter class that can for example react on
specific CDI Events in the processing life-cycle. And of
> course the developer can again inject the
DataService form the Workflow Engine to create new data.
>
> The point is that if something goes totally wrong,
the default transaction manager takes care about
> the rollback over all layers.
>
> And this all comes for free just because of using
the stateless local EJB pattern. For the developer
> there is no need to think about EJBs at all.
>
> I may be wrong here, but I would always advise a
developer to implement the data access layer via
> EJBs to keep the rest of the application as lean as
possible.
> Therefore, in my opinion, EJBs play an important
role. A tutorial should not hide its concepts.
>
> Best regards
>
> Ralph
>
> On 28.10.24 14:21, Reza Rahman via
jakarta.ee-community wrote:
>> I think the Tutorial refactoring work could
easily be tagged “good first issue” and “help wanted”.
>> We have a shockingly low number of those across
EE4J projects.
>>
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>> *Sent:* Sunday, October 27, 2024 11:50 PM
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>> *Subject:* Re: EJB -> CDI migration (was Re:
Defining Jakarta EE 12 Scope in Program Plan)
>> I love all three of these ideas:
>>
>> 1. EJB -> CDI Migration Guide
>> 2. New EJB -> CDI Migration talk
>> 3. Updating the Jakarta EE Tutorial to remove
EJB when possible
>>
>> (3) is non-trivial since a lot of work needs to
be done upgrading/rewriting the examples in
>> general, but that doesn’t mean I can’t at least
break that work down into the issue tracker. Also,
>> the intro (which I rewrote) specifically does
not mention EJB.
>>
>> I’d like to add another: Writing an
OpenRewrite for migrating from EJB->CDI.
>>
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>> On Oct 27, 2024 at 2:46 PM -0400, Reza Rahman
<reza_rahman@xxxxxxxx>,
wrote:
>>
>> I am moving comments on my Jakarta EE 12
Google Doc
>> (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U2qEqF9K969t5b3YuX4cwex5LJPvF3bt1w27cdKNpDM/edit?usp=sharing)
>> to Jakarta EE mailing lists when possible.
The problem with Google Docs
>> comments is that they do not scale very
well, aren't very readable on
>> smaller devices, and do not archive well. I
will do so one email per
>> comment. The person commenting is copied.
>>
>> Context: Why does replacing EJB matter?
>>
>> Josh Juneau (Community): Are there any
comprehensive tutorials on how to
>> utilize CDI rather than EJB for querying
entities? It seems like these
>> tutorials need to be made front and center
in an effort to help steer
>> people to CDI and to show that EJB is no
longer needed in many cases.
>>
>> Reza Rahman (Microsoft): Good point. As of
Jakarta EE 11, it is indeed
>> possible to just use CDI now for basic CRUD
in a transactional and
>> thread safe manner with Jakarta
Persistence. The same for EJB
>> @Asynchronous and @Schedule. At the bare
minimum, this is worthy of an
>> Eclipse Foundation newsletter article
and/or JakartaOne talk. The
>> material could cover where EJB is not
needed any more and where it is
>> still needed. The title could be something
attention grabbing like -
>> "EJB is Dead, Long-Live CDI and Jakarta
EE". We could also ensure a
>> revised Jakarta EE 11 Tutorial can avoid
using EJB when possible. Maybe
>> Kito could comment on this? Additionally,
the Marketing Committee has
>> been sponsoring some guides. Could we
consider already starting an EJB
>> migration guide?
>>
>> On 10/22/2024 5:30 AM, Reza Rahman wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I would like to see if we can define
clear, compelling, and specific
>> scope for Jakarta EE 12 as part of the
Steering Committee Program
>> Plan:
>> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xUNDHMP_qTHH1wA3m0yCmWVf_sHp41Qd7Opq3FhgINs/edit?
>> usp=sharing.
>> I believe this is of critical
importance at this juncture. If I did
>> not think so, I would not bother
trying. I have detailed all the
>> rationale here:
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U2qEqF9K969t5b3YuX4cwex5LJPvF3bt1w27cdKNpDM/edit?
>> usp=sharing.
>> For those that recall, something very
similar was done for Jakarta EE
>> 11, so this isn't exactly without
precedent.
>>
>> I would like to see if this can be done
in the following couple of
>> weeks, when the Program Plan is due.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Reza
>>
>>
>> Reza Rahman
>>
>> Principal Program Manager
>>
>> Java on Azure at Microsoft
>>
>> reza.rahman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> +1 717 329 8149
>>
>>
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