August, 29 2003

These are the things I like about J2EE and EJBs:

• J2EE is easy sell to technical management. No justification is required because Sun have already done all the marketing for you.

• Many developers know how to program with basic J2EE: The JSP/Servlet/EJB is ubiquitous. Projects don’t have to scratch around to find the skills, or spend time bringing people up to speed.

• J2EE provides many Java programmers with their introduction to architecture.

• J2EE incorporates a broad swathe of Internet-style technologies – Web, ftp, email, CORBA, Web Services – as well as providing a strong culture of “scalability”.

• J2EE can solve a wide variety of problems, even if the individual solutions are not optimal. The same technological platform can be used to solve many kinds of problems.

• J2EE is, to a large degree, standardised. Several good commercial and free implementations are available and, to the same degree, compatible. The standards are improving all the time.

• J2EE is based on Java, and, as computer languages go, Java is not too bad.