Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition

J2EE is a set of programming interfaces that allow programmers to build server-side applications. Unlike J2SE, J2EE doesn’t contain operational implementations of the APIs it defines; this is left to third parties.

Few .NET technologies compare directly to the J2EE APIs, although in most cases other Microsoft products exist to fill the gaps. Table 2-2 lists the J2EE APIs and the equivalent technology provided by or accessible through .NET.

Table 2-2. Comparison of Java 2 Enterprise Edition and .NET

Java

.NET

Enterprise Java Beans (EJB)

The .NET Framework can provide a mechanism that is similar to the Session Bean model via interoperability with COM+, but it has no equivalent of the Message and Entity bean models; ...

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