Application assembly and J2EE applications

 

Application assembly is the process of creating an *.ear file containing all files related to an application, as well as an XML deployment descriptor for the application. *.ear files are comprised of the following archives...

Enterprise bean *.jar
Web archive *.war
Application client *.jar
Resource adapter archive *.rar

WAR modules can be deployed individually. WAR modules can contain regular JAR files, but may not contain the other module types.

The assembly process is as follows...

  1. Select all of the files to include in the module.

  2. Create a deployment descriptor containing instructions for module deployment on the appserver.

  3. Package modules into a single EAR file, which contains one or more files in a compressed format.