The Java platform is perfectly suited for developing multi-tier enterprise software. While meeting all the performance requirements of any business-critical application, it is able to easily accomodate large variations in your company's activity by being highly scalable.

The Java platform stands as the base for countless technologies and products, most of them open-source. This allows developers to boldly engage in any application, regardless of its complexity, and in any business field. The choices you have with Java are usually more diverse and of better quality than with other development environments.

The Spring Framework is a light-weight open-source application framework that provides the infrastructure for deploying enterprise-ready applications on the Java platform. It is very popular among the Java community as an alternative to the Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) model.

Organized in several modules, it features integration layers for popular object-relational mappings (ORM) such as Hibernate (JPA), a Model-View-Controller (MVC) implementation for web application development as well as an aspect-oriented programming (AOP) module and testing facilities.

Hibernate is an open-source object-relational mapping (ORM) framework for the Java platform that maps object-oriented domain models to relational databases. Implementing the Java Persistence API (JPA), it allows developers to focus on the application's business logic.

MySQL is one of the world's most popular open-source database software. Both fast and reliable, it empowers a wide range of applications from the simplest to complex, such as high-volume business-critical applications.

JQuery is a fast, lightweight JavaScript library that simplifies the traversing and manipulation of HTML documents, while providing a solid support for dynamic AJAX content. Using jQuery greatly reduces the JavaScript-based web development time.