What is the alternative to an enterprise portal strategy in the Java space?

What technology will succeed Enterprise Java in its current space?

• Java but using a different stack? A different JVM language? Or a different language platform altogether? For enterprise, bespoke or in-house software.

• Answer:

  No single technology will.  Probably a combination of all of the mentioned developments. In any case, I don't see Enterprise Java going away any time soon (it's the COBOL of our days), but it is evolving, and will be used in a more modular fashion. Here are my predictions: Scala and other JVM languages will make inroads Light weight containers implementing only subsets of the full Java EE standars will emerge as the most popular platform, full Java EE app servers will be relegated to the projects where their full power is needed Traditional end-to-end Java EE stacks (e.g. JSF + EJB + JPA) will become less common HTML 5 and JavaScript-based frameworks (e.g. AngularJS) will see a wide popularity for implementing the front end Pieces of Java EE stack will be used to implement the backend (for example, through REST interfaces for the JS stack) RIA (rich internet application) toolkits emerge as a popular front end choice (e.g. GWT and GWT-based toolkits like Vaadin) We will see stacks where Java EE does not play any part, but Java might: i.e. Vaadin + MongoDB in Java We will see stacks where Java EE does not play any part, and neither does Java but the JVM is still used, e.g. Vaadin + MongoDB + Scala We will see stacks where Java or JVM play no role in the development, e.g. MEAN (MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, Node.js), see http://blog.mongodb.org/post/49262866911/the-mean-stack-mongodb-expressjs-angularjs-and So to summarize, a combination of wide variety of technologies selected on a case by case basis, some based on Java EE stack, some not.