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Java was a way For Sun to sell more servers so they pushed it as application server technology.

• strictfp 10y ago
  But do you know who designed the server tech? Was it old mainframe people?
  • fauigerzigerk 10y ago
    For what it's worth, the initial EJB spec was written by IBM, so I guess the answer to your question could be yes. "The EJB specification was originally developed in 1997 by IBM and later adopted by Sun Microsystems" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_JavaBeans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_JavaBeans
    • strictfp 10y ago
      Thank you for the link. I looked up Java EE, which according to wikipedia mostly originated from WebLogic. The founders didn't seem that enterprisey though: http://otechmag.com/magazine/2015/summer/michel-schildmeijer.html http://otechmag.com/magazine/2015/summer/michel-schildmeijer... So IBM does sound likely.
      • strictfp 10y ago
        The anwers to this question is also interresting: https://www.quora.com/What-were-the-original-principles-behind-Enterprise-Java-Beans https://www.quora.com/What-were-the-original-principles-behi... . Hints that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CICS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CICS was the product inspiring EJB.
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