acronym for the "Java Platform, Enterprise Edition". It was previously called J2EE. Another pseudonym is the `java-ee` tag.
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition or Java EE is a widely used computing platform for enterprise software. The platform provides an API and runtime environment for developing and running enterprise software, including network and web services, and other large-scale, multi-tiered, scalable, reliable, and secure network applications. For further information see its wikipage.