2.3. Components of J2EE

J2EE is built on a component container model. The four core container components provide runtime support for the J2EE components by means of APIs. These core components relate to the four types of containers supported in J2EE, which are Application Client, Applet, Web, and EJB. The following are the core application components supported by J2EE:

  • The Java application – The Java application components are standalone programs than run inside the Application Client container. The Application Client container provides the APIs to support messaging, remote invocation, database connectivity and lookup services. The following APIs are required for the Application Client container: J2SE, JMS, JNDI, RMI-11OP, and JDBC. This container ...

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