Java/J2EE - so many choices, but do you want all of them? Geronimo - no EJB3 support. With BEA's donation of Kodo it might change soon. JBoss - Usable J2EE server, just be careful not to tread on non-standard stuff. Glassfish - Sun never had good servers which you can run with limited resources. The beta builds looked ok. BEA - They 'had' an advantage a few years ago. What are they upto nowadays - Beehive? Oracle - They seems to be getting their stuff together with Project Fusion, but still noone wants to use their J2EE server. ADF Faces seemed good. Sun enterprise system - Free, but is anyone using it? Never trust any software which requires 1GB to work. Hibernate - Works, though there are complexities associated with getting it to work properly in a disconnected scenario. Has good tool support. Opt for EJB3 since it is based on standards. SCA/SDO - Good stuff in theory, I doubt if Tuscany or anyone can come up with an efficient implementation though. Dynamic model doesn&#
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