Java EE，Java平台企业版（Java Platform Enterprise Edition），是Sun公司为企业级应用推出的标准平台。Java平台共分为三个主要版本Java EE、Java SE和Java ME。

Sun公司在1998年发表JDK1.2版本的时候，使用了新名称Java 2 Platform，即“Java2平台”，修改后的JDK称为Java 2 Platform Software Developing Kit，即J2SDK。并分为标准版（Standard Edition，J2SE），企业版（Enterprise Edition，J2EE），微型版（MicroEdition，J2ME）。J2EE便由此诞生。

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition or Java EE is a widely used enterprise computing platform developed under the Java Community Process. 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. Java EE extends the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE), providing an API for object-relational mapping, distributed and multi-tier architectures, and web services. The platform incorporates a design based largely on modular components running on an application server. Software for Java EE is primarily developed in the Java programming language. The platform emphasizes convention over configuration and annotations for configuration. Optionally XML can be used to override annotations or to deviate from the platform defaults.