January 28 -- Macromedia announced that Macromedia JRun, the company's Java? technology based application server, has successfully passed Sun Microsystems' comprehensive Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE?) 1.3 test suite to achieve Sun's J2EE 1.3 compatible brand. Focused on the needs of developers building server-side Java technology-based applications built on open industry standards, Macromedia JRun makes the advanced capabilities of the J2EE 1.3 platform broadly accessible to the entire Java development community.