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by Alupis 3943 days ago
Well, a Java 1.3 application isn't going to be a new application - usually a legacy application which has a lot of custom libraries built specifically for that version of Java, and would require significant effort to bring the codebase up to date in terms of running on a modern platform. At my company, one of our most used internal applications runs on 1.3 - it's an application which allows user-made plugins, however we don't have the source for the main application, which means we're stuck maintaining a 1.3 system.

As an aside, J2EE is quite good and very prevalent in enterprise, JBoss, GlassFish, Tomcat, etc...