Yup, I've never seen a designed-by-committee java API that was announced with a list of vendor implementations be anything besides disastrous. They're trying t

Yup, I've never seen a designed-by-committee java API that was announced with a list of vendor implementations be anything besides disastrous. They're trying to sell containers as opposed to solve problems. Probably the last one that was any good was the Servlet API. (I guess JPA is ok but it's like take 4 on that particular problem).