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Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5 is the latest version of the premier platform for
developing robust, scalable enterprise applications. Here are some highlights:
- Easier development. The focus in Java EE 5 is ease of development. With Java EE 5, 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.
- 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.
- Enhanced web services. Java EE 5 includes simplified web services support and the latest web services APIs,
making it an ideal implementation platform for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA).
- 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 5 supports rich thin-client technologies such as AJAX, technologies
that are crucial for building applications for Web 2.0.
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