Module–Based Deployment

You can deploy web, EJB, and application client modules separately, outside of any application. Module–based deployment is appropriate when components need to be accessed by other modules, applications, or application clients. Module-based deployment allows shared access to a bean from a web, EJB, or application client component. By using package definitions in the source code of all modules, you eanble the class loader to properly locate the classes after the modules have been deployed.

The following figure shows separately-deployed EJB, web, and application client modules.

Figure 1–1 Module–Based Assembly and Deployment