But has the work on behalf of this platform, which some say is too complex for a service-oriented world, better positioned it to play in such a world? And what has been learned from the process, and from the reception thus far to Java EE 5, that might drive future changes to the platform as well as to the JCP itself?
Overall, according to Onno Kluyt, chair of the JCP, the Java EE 5 process "worked quite well. One of the good things the effort achieved was that Java EE 5 succeeded in creating a common persistence API."
