J2EE in Practice: Building Business Applications with the Java 2 Platform Enterprise

  • Authors:
  • Rick G. Cattell;Jim Inscore

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • J2EE in Practice: Building Business Applications with the Java 2 Platform Enterprise
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

From the Book:This book is for the skeptics. In 1996, the skeptics thought the Java platform would have inadequate performance for Internet and intranet servers. But they were proven wrong: Thousands of scalable Java technology-based servers are now online. In 1997, the skeptics said that Sun's community consensus-building process could not compete with established standards processes to produce a viable platform. But it did—with an overwhelming groundswell. In 1998, the skeptics said the J2EE platform would be too big and complicated to implement, and that Sun would be unable to get others to adopt it. But it was widely adopted, and the design proved very powerful. In 1999, the skeptics said the J2EE platform would come out years late, that it would take too long to complete specifications, a reference implementation, and a compatibility test suite. But the J2EE platform came out right on schedule at the end of the year, with all these deliverables. In 2000, the skeptics said that vendors wouldn't take the compatibility tests seriously and would not implement the J2EE platform in their mainstream products. But they did; all the leading vendors became J2EE licensees, and a dozen vendor products have already passed the extensive J2EE compatibility test suite. In 2001, the skeptics questioned whether real enterprise applications would be implemented and deployed successfully on the J2EE platform. But they have been. This book is the proof.