The J2EE™ Tutorial Second Edition
by Stephanie Bodoff, Eric Armstrong, Jennifer Ball, Debbie Bode Carson, Ian Evans, Dale Green, Kim Haase, Eric Jendrock
Packaging Applications
A J2EE application is delivered in an Enterprise Archive (EAR) file, a standard Java Archive (JAR) file with an .ear extension. Using EAR files and modules makes it possible to assemble a number of different J2EE applications using some of the same components. No extra coding is needed; it is only a matter of assembling (or packaging) various J2EE modules into J2EE EAR files.
An EAR file (see Figure 1-6) contains J2EE modules and deployment descriptors. A deployment descriptor is an XML document with an .xml extension that describes the deployment settings of an application, a module, or a component. Because deployment descriptor information is declarative, it can be changed without the need to modify the source code. At ...
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