Understanding the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition

The Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) is a specification for developing very portable, scalable, and maintainable applications using the Java programming language. The specification is also very large, complex, and detailed in its description of how the J2EE technology components and services can be applied towards developing J2EE applications, which can be quite overwhelming when you just want the information needed to learn J2EE at your fingertips.

To develop J2EE applications, you must understand the application architectures that the J2EE specification promotes. This chapter provides a comprehensive and logical approach to developing a technical grounding on J2EE from two educationally proven perspectives: An understanding of the logical structures of J2EE applications and an exposition of the J2EE Application Programming Model.