J2EE in 21Days
The world has come a long way since Duke first started tumbling in early versions of
Netscape Navigator. Java has outgrown its humble origins as a cool way of providing
interactivity on Web pages and has found a new role as a major, server-side development
platform. The actual Java language has changed little in the intervening years, but an
enterprise-quality infrastructure has risen up around it. This infrastructure, Java 2
Enterprise Edition or J2EE for short, allows Java developers to create sophisticated and
powerful enterprise applications that provide mission-critical functionality for many
thousands of users.
Unlike competing platforms, such as Microsoft .NET, J2EE is a specification rather than
a...
