"J2EE is like the Mark Twain of enterprise software," he said, "reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated."
Roth, along with spokespersons for IBM, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. and JBoss, now a division of Red Hat Inc., do not all dispute Burton senior analyst Richard Monson-Haefel's argument against the complexity of the platform, but none of them agree with him that Java EE's case is terminal.
"Yes, there are problems with complexity, but it doesn't mean that platform is dead," said Jim Knudson, IBM Java EE architect..."
