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You may feel that Apache Maven is done by now. For many people, Maven 3 is the only version of Maven they have ever used, and it has never seen large breaking changes. Those who have been using Maven 2 before may remember that transitioning to Maven 3 was a fairly painless journey.

Did you know it's been roughly ten years since the first steps were made on the road to Maven 4? Yet it was only this year that the first beta releases of Maven 4 were published. What a release Maven 4 will be! In the last years, there have been numerous blogs, videos and talks about things that the Maven team has been working on. In this talk, we will bring everything together to give you a thorough review of the things that are ahead.

We will cover both internal changes and external changes, highlighting the impact it will have on you as a user of Maven. Whatever your role, if you use Maven you can't miss this session.

So, your application needs a web interface. Looking at today's trends, you might think JavaScript frameworks are reigning: React, Vue, Angular and many more. On the language axis, JavaScript got company from TypeScript, Web Assembly and even C#.

But it's not all single-page applications that glitter! Of course, a single-page app delivers highly dynamic and interactive user interfaces, but at what expense? What if we revisited some of the ages past, when the server generated our web pages? Can we satisfy the ever-changing requirements of today's users for more interaction and dynamic behaviours using these patterns?

Join me on a trip down memory lane so that we can appreciate server-side web applications again. We'll investigate today's options for keeping things simple. Of course, we'll see the contestants in action. This doesn't have to be boring, after all...