BEA WebLogic Server™ 8.1 Unleashed

Tools for Working with EJBs in WebLogic Server 8.1

In WebLogic Server 8.1, BEA provides several tools to help create, deploy, and manage EJBs:

• EJBGen— A tool that generates EJB 2.0 code. It takes in EJB class files with JavaDoc comments and then generates the Home and Remote interfaces along with the deployment descriptors. BEA recommends using EJBGen to generate the deployment descriptors because it's a hard task to create them manually.

• DDInit— A command-line tool that looks at a directory containing EJBs and builds the standard J2EE and the WebLogic-specific deployment descriptors.

• Ant tasks to create skeleton deployment descriptors— You can use the Ant tasks shipped with WebLogic to create skeleton deployment descriptors. These will be incomplete ...