J2EE

A striking feature of J2EE is that Sun has done a wonderful job of providing middleware services that are part of the standard platform, but at the same time, it has left room for third-party middleware vendors to add value. These middleware services include transactional and messaging middleware services and distributed object services, all in support of Java-enabled distributed application development.

The J2EE platform is made up of the J2EE deployment specification, a set of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards, and a set of CORBA standards. The middleware built into J2EE includes EJB, Java IDL, JDBC, JMS, Java Transaction API (JTA), Java Transaction Service (JTS), and RMI-IIOP. Although each of these middleware mechanisms ...

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