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Most enterprises can comfortably tolerate systems built this way but what if you’re not most enterprises? What if you are an eBay or a MySpace? eBay for example have thrown out almost all of J2EE and built their own libraries to tackle the problems they face around:

1. Monitoring
2. Hot Upgrades
3. Scaling

Basically once you’re beyond a certain level of challenge the J2EE way of thought and patterns of design don’t work. So where does one find Java programmers that can cope with such a challenge? They’re going to need serious knowledge of:

1. Deployment
2. Monitoring
3. Networking
4. FLP
5. SEDA
6. Threads
7. REST
8. …..

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