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and or administrator. The Rapid Deployment model has three basic features
which allow for this ease of deployment:
Annotation-based programming.
Deployment Automation.
Enhanced EAR.
Annotation-based programming allows the developer to annotated his EJB,
Servlet or Web service module code with special JavaDoc syntax annotations
(similar to XDoclet). When the source of the module is saved, the directives in
these annotations are parsed and the IDE uses the directives to update
deployment descriptors. This allows the developer to concentrate on the Java
source code rather than meta-data files.
Deployment Automation is where applications install packages are dropped into
a hot directory under an application server ...