How does an application server become J2EE compatible?
Shannon: All J2EE licensees receive the J2EE Compatibility Test Suite (CTS). The licensee executes the CTS against their implementation of the J2EE Platform Specification. Once their product has passed the CTS and has met all applicable testing requirements, they submit a certification form to Sun Microsystems, verifying that their product has passed the tests and met all compatibility requirements. Then the product can carry the Java Compatible, Enterprise Edition logo. Marinescu: What kind of tests are included in the CTS? Tegan: There are three types of tests included in the CTS: signature, API, and end-to-end or integration tests. Signature tests verify that only the required elements of all specifications in the platform are implemented. Compatibility means no more and no less than the required Java APIs may be present, and the signature tests confirm this. The API test checks that the product includes an implementation of all required APIs, and that the behavior of individual API
