October 2003
Intermediate to advanced
928 pages
20h 4m
English

Up to this point this book has postponed discussion of deployment so that you could focus on the programming model rather than on deployment procedures. Deployment descriptors (which are XML documents) are pretty complicated, and they make little sense until you've learned to use the programming model. In fact, it's likely that you won't need to know anything about deployment descriptors at all, if such details are hidden behind your J2EE vendor's configuration tools. Rather than oblige you to work with the raw XML of the deployment descriptors, some vendors offer a nice GUI interface for setting things like properties, transaction ...