Use this page to instruct a Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) enterprise bean (EJB) deployment descriptor, web module deployment descriptor, or JCA resource adapter archive (RAR) module to ignore annotations that specify deployment information.
To view this administrative console page, click Metadata for modules page on the application installation and update wizards.
. This page is the same as theIf your application contains Java EE 5 or later modules, you can select to lock the deployment descriptor of one or more of the modules on the Metadata for modules page. If you select a metadata-complete attribute check box (set the metadata-complete attribute to true) and lock deployment descriptors, the product writes the complete module deployment descriptor, including deployment information from annotations, to XML format.
Annotations are a standard mechanism of adding metadata to Java classes. You can use metadata to simplify development and deployment of Java EE 5 or later artifacts. Prior to the introduction of Java language annotations, deployment descriptors were the standard mechanism used by Java EE components. These deployment descriptors were mapped to XML format, which facilitated their persistence. If you select to lock deployment descriptors, the product merges Java EE annotation-based metadata with the XML-based existing deployment descriptor metadata and persists the result.
Specifies the name of a module in the installed (or deployed) application.
Data type | String |
Specifies the location of the module relative to the root of the EAR file.
Data type | String |
Specifies whether to write the complete module deployment descriptor, including deployment information from annotations, to extensible markup language (XML) format.
By default, a metadata-complete attribute check box is not selected and the product does not write out annotation data to a module deployment descriptor.
If your modules do not have a metadata-complete attribute or the metadata-complete attribute is set to false, you can select a check box and instruct the product to write out annotation data to a module deployment descriptor.
After you select a check box, you cannot deselect (clear) the check box and the module is no longer shown in the list of modules on this page. If you select all the check boxes, the link to this page is no longer shown on the enterprise application settings page.
Data type | Boolean |
Default | false (deselected) |