Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION

Topics in This Chapter

  • What Is J2EE?

  • What Are Patterns?

  • J2EE Pattern Catalog

  • Patterns, Frameworks, and Reuse

The last few years have been extraordinary with respect to the changing landscape of enterprise software development. At the center of this change is the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), which provides a unified platform for developing distributed, server-centric applications. The widespread adoption of the strategic, enabling technologies of the J2EE have provided the development community with open standards on which to build service-based architectures for the enterprise.

At the same time, learning J2EE technologies is too often confused with learning to design with J2EE technologies. Many existing Java ...

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