Before you begin
Before assembling a Web services-enabled enterprise archive (EAR) fileAssemble a Web services-enabled Web archive (WAR) file.Why and when to perform this task
This topic explains how to assemble a Web services-enabled WAR file into and EAR file using the Assembly Toolkit. The Assembly Toolkit replaces the Application Assembly Tool (AAT) and is one of the tools available with the Application Server Toolkit product.
To assemble a Web services-enabled WAR file into an EAR file:
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Results
A Web services-enabled EAR file.Example
In the following example, there is an application.xml deployment descriptor packaged with a Web services-enabled JAR file called AddressBook.jar that is packaged into an EAR file called AddressBook.ear. The EAR file contains:
META-INF/MANIFEST.MF META-INF/application.xml AddressBook.war
An example of the application.xml deployment descriptor is as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE application PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD J2EE Application 1.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/application_1_3.dtd"> <application id="Application_ID"> <display-name>AddressBook</display-name> <description>AddressBook Example from Java bean</description> <module id="WebModule_1"> <web> <web-uri>AddressBook.war</web-uri> <context-root>/AddressBook</context-root> </web> </module> </application>
What to do next
Deploy Web services based on Web Services for J2EE.