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What do you need to know? Java Enterprise Edition. That’s the simple answer.
If you read between the lines what I’m really saying is: “You better make sure you really don’t give a flying toss about technology and don’t care about how frustrating what you spend most of your day doing is.”

When Google VP of product management Sundar Pichai says that Google coders will work on the same Chrome OS code tree as external devs, you can't help but think he's misleading the masses. Yes, we have a snapshot of Google's preliminary code. But between now and the OS's official release next year, you can bet the real development will happen inside the Chocolate Factory - until Google thinks the time is right to open source another snapshot.

Comparing Google to Chocolate Factory.
I like that.

Wow... Just... Wow.

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Java has an incredible number of frameworks for… everything. There are dozens of web frameworks alone, several of which are official standards: Applets, Servlets, JSP/JSTL, JSF and now JavaFX. This doesn’t even include the OSS efforts. It’s the same story for persistence, version/source control, testing, etc.

As a language matures and gains market/mindshare these things happen. If you are opposed to innovation and choice, and all the warts that comes with, an application stack from Microsoft is something to consider. They usually have only 1 or 2 ways of doing things and are those usually supported w/tools and documentation.