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Introducing Platform Roles

To create, package, and deploy any J2EE application—other than the simplest application—requires the effort of more than one person or organization. For example, in the development arena, a team of developers will write the J2EE components and someone else will assemble the finished application. In the production environment, someone will configure the J2EE environment and deploy the application, and yet another person will monitor the running application and its physical environment. In smaller organizations, there may be no physical distinction between these roles, but they will still be logically separate. Based on this premise, it is no surprise that Sun Microsystems suggest a named team whose responsibility it ...