Archive the EJB Application

After you have finalized your implementation and created the deployment descriptors, archive your EJB application into a JAR file. The JAR file should include all EJB application files and the deployment descriptor.

Note: If you have included a Web application as part of this enterprise Java application, follow the instructions for building the Web application in the Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE User's Guide.

For example, to archive your compiled EJB class files and XML files for the Hello example into a JAR file, perform the following in the ../hello/ejb_module directory:

% jar cvf helloworld-ejb.jar .

This archives all files contained within the ejb_module subdirectory within the JAR file.