Why Move to Java 2 Enterprise Edition?
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition is a platform for developing robust, scalable enterprise applications. Here are some highlights:
* Easier development. The focus in Java EE is ease of development. With Java EE , there is less code to write — much of the boilerplate code has been removed, defaults are used whenever possible, and annotations are used extensively to reduce the need for deployment descriptors.
* Enhanced web services. Java EE includes simplified web services support and the latest web services APIs, making it an ideal implementation platform for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA).
* EJB -- simpler, better. EJB 3.0 makes programming with Enterprise JavaBeans technology simpler through the use of Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs), it also introduces a new persistence API.
* JSF, JSTL, AJAX, and more. Constructing web applications is made easier with JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology and the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL). Java EE supports rich thin-client technologies such as AJAX, technologies that are crucial for building applications for Web 2.0.
// By Ricky
