J2EE™ Technology in Practice: Building Business Applications With the Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition

1.3. Why Standardize on J2EE?

In one of the books on the networked economy referred to earlier, Kevin Kelly notes, “Whenever you need to make a technical decision, err on the side of choosing the more connected, the more open system, the more widely linked standard.”^[1]

^[1] Kevin Kelly, New Rules for the New Economy, New York, Penguin Putnam, Inc. 1998.

The purpose of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, is to standardize development and deployment of applications required by the networked economy. The J2EE standard has been developed by Sun Microsystems and a variety of partners, many of whom are represented among the success stories in this book. In the year-and-a-half since its introduction, the J2EE standard has achieved significant momentum ...