Carol McDonald discusses the key themes and technologies in Java EE 6, which was released on December 10, 2009. The major themes of Java EE 6 are right-sizing with modular profiles, extensibility through pluggability, and ease of development through features like dependency injection and managed beans. New and updated specifications in Java EE 6 include CDI 1.0, EJB 3.1, JPA 2.0, JSF 2.0, JAX-RS 1.1, and Servlet 3.0.