J2EE Specification

At the time of writing this book, the latest publicly available version of the J2EE specification was 1.3.1. Every version of the specification defines the roles and responsibilities of the various stakeholders, including vendors who sell J2EE-compliant servers and tools, as well as developers who build business applications and components. The capability to support the different stakeholders as part of the specification results in better design and quality of the applications. Each role has a specific responsibility, and the tasks of these roles usually overlap in software development, making it difficult to develop, deploy, and maintain applications.

The J2EE specifications enable software developers to focus on developing ...

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