JavaEE Standards and Terminologies

Standards

Standards are good. They allow us to create an application that is not tied to a certain environment, runtime, or vendor.

Consider JVM, which is standardized. We can write and compile it on one OS (e.g. Windows) and run it on any other supported OS (e.g. Linux). Furthermore, consider SQL and how we can retrieve data from the database, regardless of the vendor.

There is always a struggle between the slow process of defining a standard and implementing it and the fast-responding framework. Standards are also created when a technology or way of working has proven itself ...