As businesses try to develop software faster and more predictably with higher quality, the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) is emerging as a popular standard for building enterprise applications. Not only does J2EE provide a comprehensive paradigm for developing enterprise applications, it also helps bring together a previously disjoint set of diverse technologies.
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