Chapter 1. WebLogic Workshop, WebLogic Platform, and the J2EE Landscape

by Albert J. Saganich, Jr. and Sunila Srivatsan

Web Applications and the J2EE Landscape

Developing Web applications is very different from developing conventional applications. Historically, applications ran locally on a single computer and contained all the logic to present, control, and access data for a single application. With the introduction of Java, applications could be developed that ran on any number of platforms, both local and remote. However, having a portable language wasn't enough; what developers ...

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