Assembling or packaging
Assembling or packaging is an activity in which you package code components into "modules" that comply with the J2EE specification. You define configurations for the modules, in the form of XML documents known as deployment descriptors. The product provides easy to use assembly tools that comply with and extend the standards prescribed by the J2EE specification.
Assembly tools
See "Assembling applications with the Assembly Toolkit"
or "Assembling applications with the AAT."
See "Assembling applications with the AAT."
Enterprise archive (EAR) files are comprised of the following archives:
The standard file extension of an enterprise application file is .ear.
For a discussion
of archives and Web components supported by the Assembly Toolkit, see "Archive support in Version 5.0."
For
a discussion of archives and Web components supported by the Application Assembly
Tool in Version 5, see "Archive support in Version 5.0."