[ Thanks to Peter
Parker for this link. ]
“Long gone are the days when an application platform was a
relatively small environment that consisted of just a complier, an
operating system and a few rudimentary frameworks.“Due to a combination of user demand and a competitive market
among the likes of mega vendors like IBM, Oracle and SAP, the
application platform–specifically those written in Java–has grown
into a platform built on multiple features and is becoming
increasingly popular among certain groups of users.