Interoperability Overview
One of the aspects that makes EJB so attractive as a component architecture is that the components can be hosted in containers from different vendors on various platforms and can communicate with one another. For example, you can deploy a JSP page in a Web container from one vendor and invoke operations on a session bean that is deployed in an EJB container provided by a different vendor. One of the containers can be hosted on a Windows platform, and the other might be on a Unix workstation. As an application developer using EJB, you don’t have to worry about the location or which platform the server component is hosted on.
You are not required to choose the same vendor for your Web tier container as you have chosen ...
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