The advent of the J2EE specification coupled with application servers providing the requisite services led to the design and development of monolithic applications:
Some of the characteristics of the monolithic application and its ecosystem are:
- Everything is packaged into a single .ear file. The single .ear file requires a multi-month test cycle, which results in a reduced velocity of change in production. Typically, a big push to production once or twice a year.
- Application build complexity is very high with dependencies across various modules. At times, there is a clash between ...
