One aspect I don't want to see go away is "configuration goes in the app container"... basically, if you have a datasource, define it at the app container level

One aspect I don't want to see go away is "configuration goes in the app container"... basically, if you have a datasource, define it at the app container level, then the application just requests it by name, not caring what it's actually connecting to. Happy to see acceleration of these API definitions. One thing I miss is having a "big picture" plan for all of EE APIs. It'd be really nice to have _Everything_ be defined as a CDI portable extension for instance.