[hinkley]

The J2EE 1.0 spec was so goddamned infuriating, owing to the fact it was introduced by the company who penned the 8 Fallacies of Distributed Computing. At least half of which it was obviously in violation of. I walked away from it. Or tried to. Every successful implementation violated the spec, because the spec was idiotic. So we were all doing “J2EE” and with each revision what they said we should do looked a bit more like what were were doing already. But by the time it was almost good it was captured by industry.

Then Rod Johnson lambasted it famously and then lived long enough to become J2Ee.

I still have his book here somewhere. I keep meaning to sit down with it and the Spring spec and see how badly the abyss stared into him.