Open Standards in the
SDK
Purpose
Instead of designing a new API entirely from scratch, the SDK development team began by capitalizing upon the best of available open standards and technologies.
This approach has several advantages. Open standards provide high-quality specifications that have undergone a thorough review process and are based on the experience of a large number of developers. Reliance upon open standards also increases the chances for interoperability between components from different vendors, helps toward building easy-to-learn APIs, and supports potential synergies with other emerging J2EE standards.
There are currently more than 100 Java technology specifications under development in the Java Community Process (JCP) program, including the next versions of Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME), Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE), and Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE). There is a significant amount of synergy between many of these specifications.
More Information:
● The J2EE Platform and SAP NetWeaver