Java technology standardizes the development and deployment of the kind of secure, portable, reliable, and scalable applications required by the networked economy. Because the Internet plays a major role in new business development, consistent and widely supported standards are critical to growth and success.
J2EE Technologies
The Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) defines the standard for developing multitier enterprise applications. The J2EE platform simplifies enterprise applications by basing them on standardized, modular components, by providing a complete set of services to those components, and by handling many details of application behavior automatically, without complex programming.
Enterprises today need to extend their reach, reduce their costs, and lower their response times by providing easy-to-access services to their customers, partners, employees, and suppliers.
Typically, applications that provide these services must combine existing enterprise information systems (EIS) with new business functions that deliver services to a broad range of users. These services need to be:
- Highly available, to meet the needs of today’s global business environment.
- Secure, to protect the privacy of users and the integrity of enterprise data.
- Reliable and scalable, to insure that business transactions are accurately and promptly processed.
The Java 2 platform, Enterprise Edition reduces the cost and complexity of developing these multi-tier services, resulting in services that can be rapidly deployed and easily enhanced as the enterprise responds to competitive pressures.