Applied Enterprise JavaBeans™ Technology

B.2. General structure

The deployment descriptor ejb-jar.xml has three basic XML elements, each of which has nested subelements. These elements are enterprise-beans, relationships, and assembly-descriptor. Here is an outline of this basic structure (the text in brackets is a description of what is to be found in each element, not part of the XML):

    <ejb–jar> 

      (... information about the package ...) 

 5    <enterpise–beans> 
           (...information about the EJBs...) 
      </enterpise–beans> 

      <relationships> 
10        (... information about the 
            associations between EJBS...) 
      </relationships> 

      <assembly–descriptor > 
15        (...security and transaction 
            ...) 
      </assembly–descriptor > 

    </ejb–jar> 

At the top level of the ejb-jar element, there is optional information about the name of ...