
Chapter 1. J2EE introduction 5
1.1 Architecture
This section presents a discussion of the architecture of the Java 2 Enterprise
Edition platform and the distributed applications that execute upon it. The
discussion focuses on the following items:
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition architecture and logical application layers.
J2EE support for standards, platforms and programming languages.
J2EE application components and how they are packaged and deployed.
The J2EE runtime environment and life cycle management.
Standard services provided by J2EE application servers, including quality of
service considerations.
1.1.1 Overall architecture ...