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.NET Pet Shop

If you have been a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) developer, Java Pet Store should sound very familiar. As the name suggests, Java Pet Store represents an online store for buying pets (dogs, fish, and the like). Behind the scenes, Java Pet Store essentially is a blueprint application that was authored to demonstrate how various J2EE technologies—particularly Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), Servlets, and Java Server Pages (JSP)—can be utilized in a cohesive fashion to build an online electronic commerce application. A key aspect of the Java Pet Store application is that is has been used by Sun to highlight a set of design patterns that can be used in real-world applications. In essence, the Pet Store application is really a “Hello ...