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Java Enterprise Edition

Web technologies

• Servlets - Simple scripts for handling request and response.
• JSP (Java Server Pages)
• JSF (Java Server Faces)
• Vaadin - Server - side java and HTML5
• GWT - Google Web Toolkit

Java Containers

• Tomcat (Servlet Container)
• GlassFish (Servlet Container Open-source)
• JBoss/Wildflay

Build Tools

• Maven - repository based build tool
• Ant - old similar to linux Make file
• Eclipse - IDE for development

Java packing formats

• JAR - simple JAR (Java Archive) for common libraries or runable programs
• WAR - Web Application Archive
• EAP - Enterprise Application Archive for Java EE

Java security

• Shiro - management and authorization

Web services

• JAX-RS Java API for RESTful Web Services https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/JBWS/JAX-WS+Tools
• JAX-WS Java API for XML Web Services

XML

• JAXB Java Entity to XML translator

Database

• Java Persistence
• Hibernate