most popular j2ee based websites

Question

J2EE as I understand is used to build Enterprise applications.

My question is :What are the most popular public facing(internet) sites using j2ee stack.

The one's that I know of are : linkedIn.com ,evite.com and sun ibm and oracle (obviously)

Eclipse.org uses php, I wonder why?

If you have worked on/know any other sites, can your share your experience and also the technologies used(if that's not an issue)?

EDIT:It doesn't have to use the full stack.

EDIT : There are quite a few ecommerce websites like bestbuy.com. I know this bcos I worked with the ATG(atg.com) ecommerce suite and their website lists their clients. Iam looking for those kind of examples and also your experience working on them.

Please limit to only internet sites

Answer 1

There are large sites that use bits and pieces of Java/J2EE, but I don't think there are many of those using the complete J2EE stack.

I think Ebay uses J2EE in some form.

Answer 2

One of Swedens biggest newspaper (http://aftonbladet.se) are using J2EE.

Answer 3

J2EE is enterprise architecture. Various applications run on the application server. Web may or may not be one of them. Writing just a internet site going the whole hog with J2EE is way overkill UNLESS you need your web application to be able to communicate with all sorts of other applications and be managed with these applications.

I would suggest if you are wanting to use a Java stack for web development that you look at Struts or Spring with Hibernate using Tomcat.

Answer 4

There are thousands of large and small companies that use Java EE (note that it has been called Java EE for a while now, not J2EE anymore). Most of them don't publish information about what technologies they use for their websites and other enterprise systems.

I know that Amazon uses a lot of Java EE.

Answer 5

Oprah.com is built using the JEE (Oracle AS). See the “Server” header.

Answer 6

"Sony Eicsson"

Answer 7

kickapps.com is pure j2ee build application and once you work in it then you can explore all aspects of J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Ajax.... and I am the lucky guy who is working in it and for your kind information kickapps is very famous social networking website in US.

Answer 8

theguardian.co.uk is java - have a listen to http://www.se-radio.net/podcast/2008-05/episode-95-new-guardiancouk-website-matt-wall-and-erik-doernenburg for a retrospective.