Special Edition Using Enterprise JavaBeans™ 2.0

Packaging EJBs

EJBs and their deployment descriptor are passed between the EJB roles and eventually deployed using an ejb-jar file. This JAR file contains

• The home and component interfaces

• The bean implementation classes

• Any custom primary key classes

• All dependent classes and interfaces

• The ejb-jar.xml deployment descriptor (stored in a META-INF subdirectory relative to the root of the JAR)

• Any vendor-specific deployment descriptors

As a bean provider, you can create an ejb-jar file by following these steps:

1.	Compile your EJBs and their supporting classes and interfaces
2.	Define the required parts of the deployment descriptor(s) and copy these files to a META-INF directory that’s parallel to the root directory of your package hierarchy. For ...