Portability Versus Interoperability
There is a distinct difference between portability and interoperability. In its simplest definition, portability specifies how easy it is for application assemblers and deployers to move components from one container to another. The other container might be from the same or a different vendor. The greater the portability, the easier time you will have switching to other containers or other vendors.
Interoperability, as it relates specifically to J2EE and EJB, is concerned more with how easy it is for the components within a container to communicate with components in other containers. These other containers might be EJB containers running on the same platform, or they could be objects running in a Common Object ...
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