13.3. Group Three: Fortress Architecture Questions

The questions in this third group are targeted at the fortress-level architects, those who are responsible for the individual fortresses.

Question 16: Are we considering fortress-appropriate technologies?

You wouldn't believe how much time is spent by presentation folks arguing about which is better: COM+ (a .NET technology) or EJB (a J2EE technology). Similar hours are wasted by business application folks arguing about the merits of ASP.NET versus JavaServer Pages.

If you are a presentation programmer, COM+ and EJB are technologies that are totally irrelevant to your life. You should be debating ASP.NET versus JavaServer Pages. If you are a business application fortress person, you are in exactly ...

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