WAS J2EE Functions—Servlets, JSPs, and EJBs

The IBM WebSphere Application Server product at its core implements the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technologies of servlets, Java Server Pages (JSPs), and Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs). These three principal J2EE technologies are the foundation upon which large-scale distributed and high-performance Web-enabled applications can be built. With the addition of Web services technology, WAS stands as a premier platform for providing Web-based applications.

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In WebSphere Application Server, EJBs are executed by the EJB (Enterprise Java Beans) container, and servlets and JavaServer Pages files are executed by the Web container.

Servlets

J2EE servlets can be viewed as small Java programs running on ...

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