As the title. So much design must go in to these boards but all of the cases look awful. :-(

It seems that more people are starting to realize the problems you've mentioned. I have always been amazed that practically every feature I could ever want is in Hibernate but at the end of the day knowledge that would have been gained about the underlying database is just replaced with Hibernate trivia.

The two things that always amaze across projects is how little people understand hibernate's Session (sometimes not at all!) and how people fall in to the trap of creating huge object graphs. Developers often don't see passed the mapping and querying concepts despite it only being half the story.

JavaFX is aimed at emerging markets - mobile and set top box. This is going to be around for a while but has been very slow off the mark (notably lack of Linux support - I'm not talking desktop here!) and needs a kick up the backside.

I'm not sure if Glassfish will survive in the long run. It has some great components, like grizzly, that will survive but at the other end of the scale it has parts that should be put down, like MQ.

The only reason Sony let this happen was to try to have the platform classified as a 'computer' in the EU - because of tax.

Sony tries so hard to lock up its platform that their offerings were laughable...
http://www.edge-online.com/news/kutaragi-details-ps3-computer-claim