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

Foreword

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 ...