Java EE has been an extremely successful platform. The Java Community Process (JCP) has been the steward of over 20 compatible implementations during its nearly 20-year history, resulting in a $4 billion industry. However, the management of Java EE by Oracle (unintentional or not) of Java EE (unintentional or not) stalled innovations, and while other standards have developed, the Java community worldwide and CIOs at all major enterprises desired an open standard for Java within their enterprise.
In its early stages, J2EE grew somewhat quickly from J2EE 1.2 up to J2EE 1.4, as the platform needed to address the immediate requirements of the enterprise. Beginning with Java EE 5 in May 2006, the pace began to ...
