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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 suns j2ee compliancy test suite, which consists of about 5,000 tests designed to certify that the compliant application server can run any j2ee application.allaire, owner of the popular servlet engine product jrun, purchased an ejb application server vendor and announced the new complete jrun j2ee server in june 2000. oracle corporation became a j2ee licensee at the end of may 2000 and announced full jsp, servlet, and ejb support in july 2000.
also in july bluestone, a traditional middleware powerhouse, announced servlet and jsp support to complement its popular sapphire/web ejb server with its new total-e-server product launch. unify corporation began shipping the full suite of j2ee products around the same time.
by the end of summer, vendors that hadnt yet integrated complete j2ee offerings were not even on the radar of most analysts and project managers, and at this point catching up was very difficult.
the race was on. now that j2ee vendors had complete and integrated j2ee product offerings, the focus switched to j2ee compliancy. leveraging its competitive ad... 下一页