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1.1 ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT

When an organization, from the largest corporation to the smallest church or school,

decides to acquire a software system to do X, it makes that decision because it has a

need. That need might be to make products available to customers who might not

otherwise know about them, to make data available to its internal employees in a log

ical, consistent manner, or to be able to perform analysis on the organization’s past

history and attempt to predict the future by that analysis. The need itself is unimpor

tant—but the fact that the organization has decided it wants to use some combina

tion of computer hardware and software is pertinent.

1.1.1 What is enterprise development?

Enterprise development (ED) is any application, set of applications, utility, set of

utilities, or systems and/or infrastructure developed for use by a particular company,2

CHAPTER 1 ENTERPRISE JAVA

corporation, or collection of users. Enterprise applications can take many shapes and

forms, and can span different, and sometimes divergent, technologies. Relational

databases, legacy systems, the internal web server, even individual Microsoft Access

databases sitting on users’ desktops, are all part of the back-end of the enterprise

development arena.

ED is different from other forms of development (such as commercial product

development), in that: