Java is innovative platform for developing application that runs on many OS platforms without any additional development efforts. Java as a development platform provides 3 different development platforms which includes Java SE, Java EE and Java ME.

Java SE, a Standard Edition targets to develop console, desktop client and server applications.

Java EE, an Enterprise Edition targets to develop large scale industry enterprise applications. The Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) is the industry standard for developing portable, robust, scalable and secure server-side Java applications. Building on the solid foundation of Java SE, Java EE provides web services, component model, management, and communications APIs that make it the industry standard for implementing fault-tolerant, distributed, enterprise applications falling under service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0 applications.

Java ME, a Micro Edition targets to develop mobile, hand held device applications.