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In order to accomplish the stated goals, we rejected most of the EJB parts of J2EE and with it the heavy, complex and expensive J2EE Application Servers. Instead, we follow the emerging post-EJB consensus and adopted a lightweight container that provides the best parts of J2EE Enterprise Services.
Definition: A container is a framework in which application code runs.
share a common set of services, which are listed in the following table.
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