The other big benefit Java provides is its cross-platform nature. Web developers can design their web applications, neatly package them in a special JAR file for web components called a Web Application Archive file, then install the WARs on various servers hosted by different operating systems (OSes). Java web components are not bound to a single OS or to a particular vendor's server software like other web-related software technologies. Jump ahead to the present. By late 2003, Java has achieved status as the granddaddy of server-side development. Servlets and JSPs are included in the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), a widely accepted enterprise technology for network-based and distributed computing. Hundreds of thousands of developers throughout the world work on the "web tier" of J2EEbased technologies, using servlets, JSPs, and sometimes special web frameworks such as Struts.