This illustration shows the mappings from the OC4J server.xml top-level configuration file to Web site configuration files, EAR files, and the RMI and JMS configuration files. In particular:

The illustration has the server.xml file pointing to three EAR files--EAR1, EAR2, and EAR3--where EAR1 is the parent application of EAR2 and EAR3. (This is specified through use of the <application> element parent attribute in server.xml.) The illustration also shows how a Web site XML file binds Web modules to a Web site. In a Web site XML file, each <web-app> element specifies an EAR file name (through the application attribute), the name of a Web module that the EAR file contains (through the name attribute), and a root URL used to invoke the Web module on this Web site (through the root attribute). This "binds" the Web module to the Web site.

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