Java Enterprise Edition platform
The Java Enterprise Edition platform is nothing more than a set of API specifications that act as building blocks that you can use to build enterprise applications.
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With its most recent release, the name of the Java Enterprise Edition platform has been simplified.
Instead of being called the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) v1.5, the version up from J2EE v1.4 is now labeled Java Enterprise Edition 5 or Java EE 5. It is incorrect to abbreviate this name as 'JEE'.
The main drivers for this change are a desire to do away with the '2', which really was beginning to lose its meaning anyway; and to provide center stage to the word 'Java', which is the core technology underlying the different platform editions. ...
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