Java EE Standard Descriptors (Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 9 Application Deployment Guide)

Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 9 Application Deployment Guide

Java EE Standard Descriptors

Java EE standard deployment descriptors are described in the Java EE specification, v5. You can find the specification at http://java.sun.com/products/.

The following table shows where to find more information about the most commonly used Java EE standard deployment descriptors.

Table 1–1 Java EE Standard Descriptors


Deployment Descriptor	Where to Find More Information
`application.xml`	Java Platform Enterprise Edition Specification, v5, Chapter 8, “Application Assembly and Deployment” - Java EE: Application XML DTD
`web.xml`	Java Servlet Specification, v2.5 Chapter 13, “Deployment Descriptor,” and JavaServer Pages Specification, v2.1, Chapter 7, “JSP Pages as XML Documents,” and Chapter 5, “Tag Extensions”
`ejb-jar.xml`	Enterprise JavaBeans Specification, v3.0, Chapter 16, “Deployment Descriptor”
`application-client.xml`	Java Platform Enterprise Edition Specification, v5, Chapter 9, “Application Clients - Java EE: Application-client XML DTD”
`ra.xml`	Java Enterprise Edition, Connector Architecture Specification, v1.5, Chapter 10, “Packaging and Deployment.”