J2EE Platform Roles

To create, package, and deploy any J2EE application—other than the simplest—requires the effort of more than one person or organization. For example, in the development arena, a team of developers will write the J2EE components and someone else will assemble the finished application. In the production environment, someone will configure the J2EE environment and deploy the application, and yet another person will monitor the running application and its physical environment. In smaller organizations, there may be no physical distinction between these roles, but they will still be logically separate.

This team, together with Product Providers and Tool Providers, constitute the J2EE platform roles. It is these roles that this ...

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