Urjaa
Web Designer in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Making a very rough generalisation - applications built for the world huge web fall into two categories. Those built using Sun's J2EE architecture and those built using Microsoft's. NET or earlier architecture. The chief point of difference is that while Microsoft owns the specification as well as the tools built using. NET, Sun's J2EE specification is open. This matters that any 3rd party vendor can build tools which fulfil the technical contract (the J2EE specification) and sell these tools.