Notes

1. Source: "Java Management Extensions (JMX) Specification," JSR 3, http://www.jcp.org/jsr/detail/3.jsp, which was led by Sun Microsystems to create a management API for Java resources.

2. "Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE 1.4) Specification, JSR 151, http://www.jcp.org/jsr/detail/151.jsp, a specification led by Sun Microsystems to define an enterprise-quality platform for serving applications.

3. Java and all Java-based marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc., in the United States and other countries .

4. Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, "J2SE 1.4 Release Candidate," JSR 918, http://www.jcp.org/jsr/detail/918.jsp.

5. Source: "Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0," JSR 19, http://www.jcp.org/jsr/detail/19.jsp, a specification to define a distributed application component architecture.

6. Source: "Java Servlet 2.3 and JavaServer Pages 1.2 Specifications," JSR 53, http://www.jcp.org/jsr/detail/53.jsp, a specification to define a Web application architecture.

7. Source: "JDBC 3.0 Specification," JSR 54, http://www.jcp.org/jsr/detail/54.jsp, a specification to define a Java API for relational database access.

8. Java Message Service is a specification led by Sun Microsystems to define a Java API for message systems. More information is available at http://java.sun.com/products/jms.

9. "J2EE Management," JSR 77, http://www.jcp.org/jsr/detail/77.jsp, a specification to define the management model for J2EE-compliant application servers.

10. WBEM stands for Web-Based Enterprise Management ("WBEM Services Specification," JSR 48, http://www.jcp.org/jsr/detail/48.jsp), which is Sun's Java implementation of the Distributed Management Task Force's WBEM and CIM operations specifications for accessing CIM data through HTTP.

11. SNMP stands for Simple Network Management Protocol, which is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard. More information on SNMP is available at http://www.ietf.org.

12. Source: "J2EE Connector Architecture," JSR 16, http://www.jcp.org/jsr/detail/16.jsp, a specification to define an architecture for integrating J2EE applications with existing back-end enterprise information systems.