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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p><b>Java BluePrints</b> is <a href="Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems">Sun Microsystems</a>' <a href="Best_practices" class="mw-redirect" title="Best practices">best practices</a> for Enterprise <a href="Java_Platform" class="mw-redirect" title="Java Platform">Java</a> development. This is Sun's official <a href="Programming_model" title="Programming model">programming model</a> for <a href="Java_Platform%2C_Enterprise_Edition" class="mw-redirect" title="Java Platform, Enterprise Edition">Java Platform, Enterprise Edition</a> (Java EE) <a href="Software_Development_Kit" class="mw-redirect" title="Software Development Kit">Software Development Kit</a> (SDK). It began with Java Pet Store, the original reference application for the Java EE platform. This became the <i>de facto</i> <a href="Source_code" title="Source code">source code</a> for using <a href="Enterprise_JavaBeans" class="mw-redirect" title="Enterprise JavaBeans">Enterprise JavaBeans</a> and all the latest components of the Java EE platform.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>
<p>Java BluePrints began as J2EE BluePrints and was started by Connie Weiss, Jeff Jackson, Jim Inscore, Nick Kassem, and Rick Saletta. The original engineers included Inderjeet Singh, Greg Murray, Sean Brydon, Vijay Ramachandran, Elisabeth White, and Nick Kassem. Nick Kassem is the author of the original book. The idea of Java Pet Store came from Connie Weiss and Greg Murray who were both animal lovers. After the first year, Nick Kassem left the team and Inderjeet Singh became lead architect. The Java BluePrints team was led by Larry Freeman from J2EE 1.2 in 2000 up until Java EE 5 in 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Throughout its existence, Java BluePrints has offered all of its content for free and has been focused on promoting developer success. Java Pet Store became the symbol for J2EE's ascendency; <a href="Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> created a competing <a href=".NET_Framework" title=".NET Framework">.NET</a> Pet Shop to showcase its competing technology. Since then, many technologies such as <a href="Tapestry_(programming)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tapestry (programming)">Tapestry</a>, <a href="Spring_framework" class="mw-redirect" title="Spring framework">Spring</a>, and others have implemented their own versions of the Pet Store application as a way to demonstrate best practices for their given technology.
</p><p>With the arrival of J2EE 1.4 technology, <a href="Web_service" title="Web service">web services</a> became a standard part of the Java EE specification. Java BluePrints came out with a second application: the Java Adventure Builder reference application. This application never became as popular as Java Pet Store but then again, it never became as controversial.
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<p>There have been three Java BluePrints books, and the Core Java EE design patterns which are hosted on the Java BluePrints site have become the standard lingua for Java EE application development.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Java BluePrints was the first source to promote <a href="Model_View_Controller" class="mw-redirect" title="Model View Controller">Model View Controller</a> (MVC) and <a href="Data_Access_Object" class="mw-redirect" title="Data Access Object">Data Access Object</a> (DAO) for Java EE application development. Before this, the MVC design pattern was widely promoted as part of <a href="Smalltalk" title="Smalltalk">Smalltalk</a>.
</p><p>The latest Java BluePrints offering is the Java BluePrints Solutions Catalog.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It covers topics as diverse as Java Server Faces, Web Services, and Asynchronous <a href="JavaScript" title="JavaScript">Javascript</a> and <a href="XML" title="XML">XML</a> (<a href="Ajax_(programming)" title="Ajax (programming)">Ajax</a>). Articles are smaller and more focused and include sample code that shows how a solution is implemented. Its focus is on the J2EE 1.4 SDK.
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</style><cite id="CITEREFFreeman" class="citation interview cs1">Freeman, Larry. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171026001240/http://www2.sys-con.com/itsg/virtualcd/java/archives/0606/freeman/index.html">"Interview With Larry Freeman"</a>. <i>Java Developer's Journal</i> (Interview). Interviewed by Kilmurray, Stephen E. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www2.sys-con.com/itsg/virtualcd/java/archives/0606/freeman/index.html">the original</a> on 2017-10-26.</cite></span>
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