On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 10:41:28AM -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote: > Matt Sergeant wrote: > >"To reduce costs and fast-track enterprise application design and > >development, the Java"2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE") technology > >provides a component- based approach to the design, development, assembly, > >and deployment of enterprise applications. > > I don't know who they think they're kidding with that "reduce costs" > business. Commercial J2EE software has the most outageous prices. It's > common for companies to spend millions on it just to put up a simple web > store.
Have you considered the alternatives? Like developing with other development platforms (like CORBA ORBs), or component technologies (COM/COM+/DCOM)? ISTR Netscape was big on making IIOP (lightweight CORBA over the Web) an integrated offering in their servers at one point. The most expensive cost is developer time -- time to develop, deploy and maintain an application. The only other model out there that could be used for "enterprise development" is the old standby client/server w/desktop app model. And that does cost significantly more in terms of tools, developer time, deployment effort, .... I don't see the section Matt's quoting as praising J2EE for web development, as much as I see that section touting J2EE as a solution to the COM nightmare. Just $0.02. Z.
