Packaging

Packaging Applications

• JAR, WAR, EAR (same format, only differs in suffix)

• Structure

  • META-INF :

    • application.xml (standard descriptor)

    • optional, server specific descriptor

  • Web Module (.war)

  • Application Client Modeule

  • Resource Adapter Module (for EIS, packaged ".rar")

  • EJB Module (.jar)

Packaging Enterprise Beans

• EAR

• EAR Structure

  • .classes for the module, under root

  • META-INF

    • MANIFEST.MF

    • ejb-jar.xml (standard descriptor)

    • optional server specific descriptor

• Package enterprise bean in WAR

  • as .class files, in WEB-INF/classes

  • within JAR, and the JAR under WEB-INF/lib

  • ejb-jar.xml is optional in WAR, and should be placed in WEB-INF

Packaging Web Archives

• defined in Java Servlet specification

• structure

  • HTML, client-side classes, archives, static resources, etc., under root

  • WEB-INF

    • classes (dir): server-side classes

    • lib (dir): JAR files

      • Server side libraries

      • EJB

    • web.xml (web application descriptor)

      • for JSF

      • specify security information

      • or want to override annotation

    • ejb-jar.xml (optional, EJB deployment descriptor)

Packaging Resource Adapter Archive