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Spring is to J2EE as Dalvik is to J2SE | 162 comments | Create New Account

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Spring is to J2EE as Dalvik is to J2SE

Authored by: lwoggardner on Friday, May 11 2012 @ 06:30 AM EDT

you need to ignore the "built on top of Java" piece, it is
irrelevant.

There is a J2EE api to build so called "enterprise"
applications, consisting of things like EJBs and Servlets.
There is a TCK for J2EE containers- Weblogic, WebSphere,
JBoss etc...

Instead of implementing an alternate J2EE implementation
with a quasi-compatible API, Spring implemented a completely
different API to be used for these kind of applications.

Oracle suggests that this is what Google should have done to
avoid violating the copyright in the SSO of their API.

As an aside, In the J2EE space, JBoss was roughly equivalent
to Harmony here, ie implementing the API without a license
and were for a long time in dispute with Sun over access to
the J2EE TCK.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Spring is to J2EE as Dalvik is to J2SE - Authored by: PolR on Friday, May 11 2012 @ 08:35 AM EDT
- Spring is to J2EE as Dalvik is to J2SE - Authored by: lwoggardner on Friday, May 11 2012 @ 09:41 AM EDT
  - Spring is to J2EE as Dalvik is to J2SE - Authored by: PolR on Friday, May 11 2012 @ 10:00 AM EDT
  - Spring is to J2EE as Dalvik is to J2SE - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 11 2012 @ 10:44 AM EDT

So... What's the problem?

Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 11 2012 @ 04:09 PM EDT

The problem is Google has bags of money for a honkin' great lawsuit.
Spring is a subsidiary of VMware who Larry E wants to keep onside of.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

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