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From: eric@invalid.com (EricF)
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Subject: Re: J2EE
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In article <kvp1hg$p0p$1@dont-email.me>, eric@invalid.com (EricF) wrote:
>In article <521fc2b1$0$300$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>,
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>On 8/29/2013 12:26 PM, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
>>> Having said that, the whole business of differentiations of the Java
>>> platform is awkward and unfortunate.
>>
>>..NET has similar (client profile, full profile, CF, SL, PCL, WP, Win8).
>>
>>>                                       In order to do many "standard"
>>> things with Java you actually need Java EE libraries. I don't know the
>>> exact history, but I can see a few marketing dudes at Sun back in the
>>> day embracing the "enterprise" buzzword, and deciding that such and such
>>> APIs were enterprise-y...which is meaningless actually.
>>>
>>> If you want to do serious work with Java you cannot not do Java EE.
>>> Unless you're really niche. And quite frankly, for most Java developers
>>> the amount of Java EE APIs they need to master is a small percentage of
>>> the whole.
>>
>>That was how it was, but in latest versions it seems to me that they
>>have been willing to put more stuff in SE.
>>
>>Arne
>>
>Arved may have been referring to jsp/servlets? I think jdbc has moved to SE. 
>Personally I think you can do a lot of serious work without JEE, 
>professionally you are likely to need JSP or servlets. (Spring can handle 
>much of the JEE functionality.)
>
>Eric

What was I thinking? JDBC has been in SE for a long time.

Eric