An end-to-end solution, Java has helped join the disparate worlds of enterprise information systems, linking legacy, ERP, and relational databases with Web-based business applications.

Sun Microsystems plans to complete a Web services-ready, enterprise version of its Java application server next year while it ups its investment in Web server software.

Designed with cloud-based deployments and flexibility in mind, the Java client API can be used within any web application and independent of any framework. Organizations can easily incorporate the ...