Floyd Marinescu

The year 2000 saw J2EE compliancy move out of the realm of marketing and into nine shipping products. The threat of commoditization of J2EE application servers forced vendors to switch gears in 2001 toward leveraging J2EE servers as platforms for Web services, wireless, and EAI development. The dominant players in the game surfaced, but a variety of strategic takeovers may reshape the J2EE app server market in 2001. This article walks you through the events, trends, and players of last year and describes the changes in the application server market landscape today. 2000: Year of the J2EE-Compliant Arms Race For the app server market 2000 will be remembered as the year of the J2EE-compliant arms race. The first step toward compliance was offering a complete suite of J2EE products. The second: these products had to pass Sun's J2EE compliancy test suite, which consists o... (more)