What is the most important api in Java EE?

[Alex Ardoin]

Hi,

I was asked in an interview about the core api of the Java EE? Also  the most important api in thr Java EE?
I said servlet, (maybe woth  JSP and EJB).
Which apis is the core of the Java ee? What would you say?

Best
TheOcean

[Bear Bibeault]

Important is in the eye of the beholder. What's important to one person or company may not be important to others.

For example, I don't use any JEE APIs other than JPA, Servlets and JSP. So all of the other are completely unimportant to me.

[Bear Bibeault]

As an interview question, I find it pretty much useless. It might have been used as a springboard from which to ask more questions, or delve deeper into a particular API, but then I would have phrased the question differently to remove the subjectivity.