Reza Behforooz is an engineering manager at E.piphany and also serves on the Expert Group for EJB 3.0. He has over seven years of server engineering experience, mostly in J2EE. He holds a BSCS from Cornell University and a MSCS from Stanford University.
We know from the theory of relativity that the passage of time is relative to
the perceiver. This is true of history as well. Sometimes history moves fast,
e.g., during World War II and when communism was crumbling in 1989. Sometimes
history moves slowly, as in the Cold War and the period between 1991-2001.
The same can be said of innovation. Sometimes a lot of innovation happens all
at once as in the boom years of the Web from 1998-2001, and during the early
days of Java - 1994-1995. Sometimes the pace of innovation slows to a crawl
and other forces, principally economic, take precedence.
The J2EE platform is in the latter state at the moment. Much of the
innovation has already been done, and most of the work being done now is "fit
and finish" work. The net effect of thi... (more)
Reza Behforooz is an engineering manager at E.piphany and also serves on the Expert Group for EJB 3.0. He has over seven years of server engineering experience, mostly in J2EE. He holds a BSCS from Cornell University and a MSCS from Stanford University.
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