Preface
I BEGAN WORKING WITH JAVA TECHNOLOGY in late 1995, shortly before the Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.0 was formally released. Prior to that, I was programming in C and C++ for many years. I was truly excited about the features that Java offered, such as cross-platform portability, simpler syntax (simpler than C++, for example), objectoriented, secure, rich API, and more.
Over my 20-year career, I have learned a few things. Among these, my favorite is simplicity; anytime I see complexity, I begin doubting whether the solution is correct. This is how I had begun to feel about Java right around 2000, when the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) started becoming mainstream. Note that from this point on, I will refer to J2EE as JEE because the ...
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