01/18/2000
Our first meeting of the new millennium, brought Jason Newman here from
Citicorp to talk to us about J2EE - Java 2 Enterprise Edition.
Jason has an interesting background, not only is he one of the top Java
developers at Citicorp, but Jason used to own his own company where he would do
security consulting, and was once enlisted by the government to break into
computer systems.
So what is J2EE? Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition is a platform that
enables solutions for developing, deploying and managing multi-tier
server-centric applications. J2EE utilizes Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition to
extend a complete, stable, secure, fast Java platform to the enterprise level.
It delivers value to the enterprise by enabling a platform which significantly
reduces the cost and complexity of developing multi-tier solutions, resulting in
services that can be rapidly deployed and easily enhanced.
Basically, J2EE encompasses everything in the standard Java Developer Kit,
plus: Enterprise JavaBeans, JavaServer Pages, servlets, the Java Naming and
Directory Interface, the Java Transaction API, CORBA, and the JDBC data access
API.
A few web sites that Jason mentioned:
