Agree with Steve - until the "next big thing" comes along, J2EE is a good way to build scalable enterprise systems.

I've worked for a J2EE application server vendor previously and still do Java development for my new employer. Our current project is EJBs, hosted on Weblogic, communicating with servlets on a web server.

I would say that although Java is portable, the different way in which vendors implement the J2EE standards and their own value add can, to a certain degree, lock you in to a particular vendor. The other thing is that the J2EE specs are *continually* evolving and keeping upto date (if you want to) needs a bit of effort.

Many vendors (including my previous employer) offered RAD tools to auto-generate code for you from your object model. Sweet stuff - you just implement the business logic instead of the mandatory code in the beans and the relationships between them.

If you want to research further, a good place to start is at serverside.com

Den

[Edited by Dirty_Den - 11/9/2003 12:36:16 PM]

As subject.

Cheers

Ian

Serious enough to warrant everything you'd ever want to know is available via Google.

Hello

Most of the applications that we either work on or have to intereface to these days are written to J2EE standards. The objects are distributed with EJB's, and interfaced to with servlets.

So it's certainly a serious Business Tool, and will stay so. Well, until the next "new thing" of course....

Steve.

It's serious. The company I work for is heavily promoting a simple web services architecture with both J2EE and .Net as the underlying technology.

IMHO, it's mature and here to stay insofar as anything in the IT world is here to stay ;)

Thanks guys.

I only ask as J2EE is what is being suggested by some consultant chappies for our next big project (very very large databases accessed via web services). I'm always wary of anything I don't fully understand (read: haven't got my hands dirty with) so was asking purely as to its long term viability for enterprise level work.

Cheers

Ian