Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 9 Application Deployment Guide

Directory Structure

When you deploy an application, the application is expanded from the EAR file to an open directory structure. The directories holding the individual modules are named with _jar, _war and _rar suffixes. If you use the asadmin deploydir command to deploy a directory instead of an EAR file, your directory structure must follow this same convention. Module and application directory structures follow the structure outlined in the Java EE specification.