Java Enterprise Edition

Java Standard Edition acts as a core of Java's other editions, that is, Java EE, Java ME, Java FX, Java Card and PersonalJava. Java Enterprise Edition was added to give Java Technology an extended capability of distributed and multi-tier architectures, and web services that provides an extensive API to develop an enterprise applications, Large-scale software that includes network and web services that are robust, reliable, scalable, flexible, and highly secure to the desired industry standards. The Java EE platform has evolved over the years, currently known as Java EE 6(Java Enterprise Edition 6), Java EE 7 is the latest release.

• J2EE 1.2(Dec 12, 1999)
• J2EE 1.3(Sep 24, 2001)
• J2EE 1.4(Nov 11, 2003)
• Java EE 5(May 11, 2006)
• Java EE 6(Dec 10, 2009)
• Java EE 7(May 28, 2013) under JSR 342

 There are many application servers that support and can run Java Web or Enterprise Applications, but the preferred and recommended application server would be Glassfish Server Open Source Edition, current version v3. Java EE 6 is rich full of libraries and frameworks that has proved development to be quite of high complexities and this has been quite challenging for junior developers like me. I didn't mention about java-based build tool Ant which is proved to be very important for Web or Enterprise Application development. Java EE 6 which is multi-tier has the Client-tier(runs on Client's machine), Web-tier(runs on Web Server), Bussiness-tier(runs on Web Server), and the Enterprise-tier(runs on Database Server).