On Wednesday, October 24, 2001, at 12:48 PM, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> J2EE provides standard quality-controlled ways to do databases, > messaging, mail, servlets, XML, security, and persistence in a bunch > of environments (applications, applets, web, and "beans"). There is a > ton of documentation on it at sun.com. What, in a nutshell, are these java beans? I can see them in the diagram here -- <http://java.sun.com/j2ee/overview2.html> -- but I don't see what purpose they serve. They apparently sit between the database system and the servlets providing "business logic", but I've always found that to be an empty, hand wavy term that does a bad job of actually saying much. I can't see why there has to be anything at all at the level described in this diagram. Am I missing something critical here? -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/
