CSS 422 NET vs. Java As Software Architecture

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As Edmon Begoli indicates in his (2006) article titled ".NET vs. J2EE (Java EE) - Architectural Philosophy" article, there are several advantages and disadvantages of both .NET and Java. Starting with J2EE, it was meant to be very scalable and it was intended that it help standardize pervasive enterprise technologies such as message oriented middleware. There was a huge effort for J2EE to be a very powerful and complex framework. There are a few issues however:

API's are unnecessarily complex and have a steep learning curve.

Expensive application servers are required to run J2DD apps.

Some of the advantages of the J2EE framework are: The flexibility of the J2EE's API's. Extensibility and flexibility are inherent to most of the J2EE's API's. It enables open source

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Prepare a 2-3 page paper describing the advantages and disadvantages of .NET compared to

Java Technology as a software architecture.