| By the very nature of their operations, large and | | | | higher-level classes to handle security, networking, |
| medium-sized businesses have complex requirements. | | | | XML parsing and GUI crafting. And to this, as most |
| And when the time comes to port legacy systems to | | | | users have known since 2003, the Enterprise Edition |
| today's business demands or to build entirely new | | | | added the ability to develop and run very large, |
| functionality, IT planners in the know tend to think in | | | | scalable, multi-tiered and increasingly robust networked |
| terms of .NET, Oracle, SAP or Java 2 Enterprise | | | | applications. |
| Edition (J2EE). | | | | One of the most enthusiastic J2EE supporters I've met |
| The great appeal of J2EE rests on its open source | | | | are the folks at HyTech Professionals ( out in the |
| heritage, pretty much an anti-establishment way to get | | | | Nashua (NH) extension of the eastern Silicon Belt. |
| even complex enterprise applications developed | | | | Simply amazing, the number of J2EE systems they've |
| without license fees or kowtowing to "Big Brother". Far | | | | developed for industrial, gaming, banking, insurance and |
| from being scanty, the Java programming language | | | | e-commerce companies. |
| defined basic objects, as well as the needed | | | | |