i-Lab Guide to : J2EE

What Is It ?	J2EE stands for Java 2 Enterprise Edition. If it a framework for developing mult-tier enterprise applications. For J2EE consultancy services contact i-Lab. Click here for a summary of J2EE design patterns.

Client-side
Web browser	A generic renderer for HTML documents received over the HTTP protocol
Applet	An embedded java application that runs within the client browser
J2SE Application	A standard java application (e.g. communicating via serialisation over sockets)
Server-side Presentation
Servlets	Pure java CGI running within a servlet container (e.g. Apache Tomcat)
JavaServer Pages	(HTML) pages with embedded tags and java code that is transparently compiled to a servlet
Web Services
Server-side Business Logic
Enterprise Java Beans
Web Services