DB2 10.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition containers

A container provides a federated view of the underlying Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) APIs to the application components.

A typical J2EE product will provide a container for each application component type; application client container, applet container, web container, and enterprise bean container. The container tools also understand the file formats for packaging the application components for deployment.

The specification requires that these containers provide a Java-compatible runtime environment. This specification defines a set of standard services that each J2EE product must support. These standard services are:

HTTP service
HTTPS service
Java transaction API
Remote invocation method
Java IDL
JDBC API
Java message service
Java naming and directory interface
JavaMail
JavaBeans activation framework
Java API for XML parsing
Connector architecture
Java authentication and authorization service