| Business application
| Examples of business applications are the Payroll Application for the ACME Corporation and the Inventory Application for Spacely Sprockets.
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| Components
| Deployable assets, developed either by the enterprise or a vendor, and managed by the enterprise. The ACME Corporation might create a set of enterprise beans to represent the business logic required by their Payroll Application.
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| Subcomponents
| IBM WAS consists of subcomponents, such as the enterprise bean container and the servlet engine.
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