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Assembling a Web services-enabled WAR into an EAR file

You can assemble a Web services-enabled Web archive (WAR) file into an enterprise archive (EAR) file with an assembly tool.

Before you begin

You can assemble Java-based Web services modules with assembly tools provided with WebSphere Application Server.

About this task

Assemble a Web services-enabled WAR file into an EAR file using the steps provided in this task section.

Procedure

  1. Start an assembly tool. See "Starting WebSphere Application Server Toolkit" in the Application Server Toolkit documentation for more information.
  2. Assemble the Web services-enabled WAR file into an EAR file. Now assemble the EAR file that contains the JAR or WAR files. The EAR file can contain an enterprise bean or application client JAR files; Web applications or WAR files; and metadata describing the applications or application.xml files.

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.



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