Re:Do not equate JAva to J2EE (Score 1)

And consider all the lightweight containers that are moving into that middle ground. For example Spring with hibernate, OpenJMS, Quartz, and a mass of open source options is very simple to use (once you've sorted out all your options) without the J2EE baggage. And using Eclipse to pump out code greatly reduces the code to deployment cycle, as fast as with any scripting language.