Help with compiling a presentation on Java Enterprise Systems

[masked1]

I need to compile a presentation to my technical managers on "Using java to develop enterprise systems"

I have tried to look for informaton by using Google but doesnt come up with any decent material.

Points I need to cover:
- Description of features of Java that support enterprise systems
- Examination of tools which support java development
- An example of how Java might be used in an enterprise context
- Success of Java language in Enterprise development

Hoping to create about 10 slides....

Any help on the above will be greatly appreciated and/or any useful articles or links on Java enterprise systems.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

all I can say is goodluck, the only thing I could think of would be to show them java enterprise while it's running.

 

[masked1]

I am just doing a powerpoint presentation...so I can't do a walkthrough...

and good luck isnt enough....I need material....

help someone.....?????

 

[kamper]

all you'll ever need to know about j2ee

well, the technical side anyways, hope that gets you started (and doesn't put you to sleep )

 

[masked1]

cheers kamper

I still need more infor please?

 

[masked1]

anymore info please? I am struggling and google is not producing the goods!

 

[kamper]

You could do a comparison to .NET. They are essientially directly competing products. The difference being that java is free and portable. Here's a bit of an old comparison to get you started. Also try this

At the risk of exposing my lack of knowledge, I'll try to explain a little of what I know. J2ee is an api for the regular java virtual machine that deals largely with web services. That is largely xml and numerous methods of transporting data through and with xml to other systems, written in java or anything else that implements certain standards. There is also database connectivity abstracted through enterprise beans (don't ask me to explain how those work ) and standards for servers that can host j2ee applications by holding beans, servlets and directory services and such.

Basically you can setup a complete enterprise software system for free because of all the open source work that goes on. Java, of course, is free. The enterprise components are just a bunch of jars that you can grab from sun (although I think there might be some kind of licensing/support deal if you want it). Some server products to investigate would be JBoss (bean container and application server), Tomcat (servlet/jsp container, can run standalone, inside JBoss or behind other web servers that can use the mod_jk connector protocol) or Jetty (same deal as tomcat I think).

The company I work for uses java to integrate into a large medical data system which involves talking to many different systems via a set of messaging standards. I wish I could tell you more about how it works but I just started and I'm still learning. Check out Medicalis if you're interested in checking out our marketing hoopla.