THE J2EE™ 1.4 Tutorial in NetBeans™ IDE is a guide to developing enter- prise applications for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) version 1.4.This tutorial examines several aspects of J2EE technology and how to quicklyand easily code enterprise applications using NetBeans IDE. Here we cover allthe things you need to know to make the best use of this tutorial. Who Should Use This Tutorial This tutorial is intended for programmers who are interested in developing anddeploying J2EE 1.4 applications on the Sun Java System Application ServerPlatform Edition 8.1 2005Q1.

TODAY , more and more developers want to write distributed transactional applications for the enterprise and thereby leverage the speed, security, and reli-ability of server-side technology. If you are already working in this area, youknow that in the fast-moving and demanding world of e-commerce and informa-tion technology, enterprise applications must be designed, built, and producedfor less money, with greater speed, and with fewer resources than ever before. To reduce costs and fast-track application design and development, the Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE™) provides a component-based approach tothe design, development, assembly, and deployment of enterprise applications.The J2EE platform offers a multitiered distributed application model, reusablecomponents, a unified security model, flexible transaction control, and web ser-vices support through integrated data interchange on Extensible Markup Lan-guage (XML)-based open standards and protocols.