Appendix E. Installing and configuring the Java EE 5 SDK

Throughout the book, we evaded the topic of installing application servers and configuring our sample application inside an installed server. We avoided this subject for two reasons. First, this book is about the EJB 3 standard and we didn’t want to slant this book toward a specific application-server implementation. Second, providing application-server-specific instructions is a tricky business at best. This is because application-server implementations change quite often, making instructions out of date. This is especially true for a potentially long-lived technology like EJB 3.

However, we don’t want to leave you completely high and dry, even if it means providing instructions that ...

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