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What have Sun and the Java Software team learned in working with licensees on CTS?

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What have Sun and the Java Software team learned in working with licensees on CTS?

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Tegan: We have learned that Compatibility matters to our licensees and their customers, and that it is a continuous process. Even though the CTS is large and tests a complex platform, the J2EE licensees met the challenge. You can’t count on specs alone for technical correctness. It takes all three areas, the specification, the reference implementation and the compatibility tests to get it right. The CTS adds tremendous value to both J2EE product providers and enterprise application developers. Compatibility isn’t a one time thing, it’s a continual part of the development process. Marinescu: We have heard the CTS is hard to run. What is Sun doing to make it easier? Tegan: The CTS tests a complex environment. Today, an implementation can include vendor-specific platform requirements. To make the CTS itself portable, it abstracts the vendor specific classes into a porting package. Once a vendor has implemented the complete platform, it is easy to run and repeat executions of the complete

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