The development and maintenance of large software systems are considered to be very complicated task. Due to this, a platform is required for business enterprise integration. Use of various network protocols is also involved in it. The two well-known software, Sun and Microsoft have found their own solutions for facilitating the development of enterprise applications. Microsoft's .NET is a framework comprised of a common language runtime, a rich set of libraries and a more unified and powerful development environment. Sun developed J2EE as an alternative. It is basically an open ...