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To build a set of extensible GUI components to enable developers to more rapidly develop powerful Java front ends for commercial applications.

With version 5 of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, formerly referred to as J2EE), development of Java enterprise applications has never been easier or faster. J2EE 1.4, the predecessor to the Java EE 5 platform, has many powerful features. The aim of the Java EE 5 platform design has been to streamline these features and add convenience, improve performance, reduce development time, and help developers get products to market that much sooner.

Over the past few years, the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) specification has evolved significantly. In the early days of EJB, application developers faced a burden of overwhelming complexity: they had to manage several component interfaces, deployment descriptors, and unnecessary callback methods; work within the limitations of the EJB Query Language (EJBQL); and learn and implement the design patterns used to overcome the limitations of the specification.