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Java Enterprise Edition

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Encyclopedia of Database Systems

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J2EE; Java EE; JEE

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Java EE (JEE) is a Java Community Process (JCP) specification for Java application servers. JEE consists of a set of related specifications and APIs that shapes an ecosystem for building Java distributed applications over a multi-tier architecture, including web, business logic, and storage tiers. JEE provides components specific for each tier. JEE provides servlets and Java Server Pages (JSPs) for the web tier, Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) for the business logic tier, and a data driver (JDBC) and an object-relational mapping (via entity beans) for the storage tier. Components can be distributed at different sites and interact with each other. The interaction among distributed JEE components is achieved via RMI (Remote Method Invocation), the JEE specification for remote procedure calls. In its latest editions, JEE has been smoothly integrated with XML processing and web services. It is possible to program web services using EJBs and a large set...

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  1. JSR 316: JavaTM Platform, Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6) Specification. http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=316

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  1. Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Ricardo Jimenez-Peris & Marta PatiÑo-Martinez

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  1. Ricardo Jimenez-Peris
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  2. Marta PatiÑo-Martinez
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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Jimenez-Peris, R., PatiÑo-Martinez, M. (2009). Java Enterprise Edition. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_1542

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