The Java Competency Center is a strategic group of senior technology experts evangelizing and executing projects based on Java technologies. The primary focus of this group is to help Persistent's clients to better harness Java technologies at the grass root level.At Java competency center, we foster a product development environment centered amid the best practices in these areas. Building products with Java has its very own specialties and nuances. There are a large set of patterns built in this area. Mastering Java implies mastering these patterns.

The key approaches that we deliver to our clients' benefits are:

• Identifying and mitigating development risks early on, leading to reduced costs
• Reaching and going beyond quality goals for products and applications
• Achieving right Time-To-Market with development cycles appropriately tuned to our clients' needs
• Banking on proven architectural best practices, methodologies, and patterns that Persistent has developed over the years.

The Java Competency Center has the following technology service offerings:

• Building End to end J2EE applications: This offering involves building high end J2EE web applications, browser based user interface frameworks, Clustering and Hibernate
• Building Web 2.0 applications: Ajax toolkits, Widgets, Flex and Flash technologies, RSS and related technologies
• Designing and Implementing Enterprise Architectures: This offering includes building enterprise applications using Weblogic/WebSphere stacks. We also help design and implement Portal Architectures, Enterprise Server Bus and Business Process Modelling
• High Performance Native Applications: The Java Competency Center works on Java Swing and SWT based applications to develop high end user interfaces
• Application Modernization: This offering involves moving legacy applications and those based on older technologies to Java technologies. The motivation to move could be manifold - maintainability, performance, scalability and portability.

The Java Competency Center has also worked with various domains and has a history of excellent deliveries in the domains of Telecom, Data Storage, Mail and Messaging, Identity Management, Security, Customer Relationship Management and Business Intelligence to name a few.