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That, Bickel said, will make it difficult to determine exactly what products -- and many have already lined up in support -- will be truly J2EE-compliant and interoperable.
The issue of interoperability, however, may not be as big as some would believe, according to some observers. Randy Hietter, the vice president of product development of Persistence Software in San Mateo, California, said companies should be more concerned with the reliability and scalability advances in the platform than with compliance, adding that the J2EE platform will offer those features in spades.