Sun Microsystems has announced the availability of the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6) and significant industry support from Java technology licensees including Caucho, IBM, Oracle and Red Hat. Java EE is touted as a premier platform for Web and enterprise application development and deployment. The new version introduces features to increase the flexibility of the platform and enable companies to use specific application scenarios, in addition to the full enterprise platform, to help meet different use case requirements.

The new specification introduces Profiles, which targets the platform at specific application scenarios. Profiles provides more flexibility for customers, ISVs and platform vendors and allows them to better address new and existing markets. It also defines extensibility features as a means to embrace and support, external communities and innovations and allows them to cleanly 'plug in' to the platform. In addition, Java EE 6 specifies a process and a set of technologies that may be 'pruned' from future releases of the platform, allowing vendors and application providers to plan their migration to newer technologies that will be offered in upcoming versions of the platform.

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