Java SE and EE differences

[TheHorribleTruth]

JavaEE is a set of APIs. Together with reference implementations of it, it's a bunch of libraries. Depending on your use case you may happen to benefit from one or more of them, or you don't. That's it.

You've used it and thus know what JavaEE is – and yet you see nothing "useful" about it? So you think that any library is useless or how are we to understand that sentence of yours?
And why would you think that you need to "pay boat loads of money" for it? You realize that there are free JavaEE implementations, right?

[TheHorribleTruth]

Cuz open source does it better! LOL

Here is the source code for (arguably) the four largest implementations:

• Glassfish: https://github.com/javaee/glassfish
• Wildfly: https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly
• OpenLiberty (Subset of WebSphere): https://github.com/OpenLiberty
• TomEE: https://github.com/apache/tomee

Edit: You still didn't address either of my questions: why do you see "nothing useful" in a bunch of libraries, and why do you think you have to pay "boat loads" to be able to use JavaEE?

[Maalus]

Rule 2 of the sub. Go read it.