J2EE Architecture

Its about 3 things;

• It's all about the Sun spec, and using the key technology components that the spec prescibes; i.e. what functionality must a web container delivery, what functionality must an ebj container deliver, client container etc etc
• It's all about trendy j2ee opensource frameworks, irrespective of the frameworks development time and runtime characteristics
• And most of these trendy frameworks are implementations based on your favorite coffee table patterns books. Those books you use to pick up chicks with.....Its really about ensuring that you select a pattern / framework that has implemented an pattern that delivers the technical characteristics that your project requires non functional what??? Hopefully, you've quantified the runtime characteristics and development time charactertics of these frameworks.