Enterprise JavaBeans, Third Edition

The Contents of a Deployment Descriptor

We’ve discussed XML deployment descriptors throughout this book. At this point, you probably know enough to write deployment descriptors on your own. However, it is still worthwhile to take a tour through a complete descriptor. Following are the EJB 2.0 and 1.1 versions of the deployment descriptor for the Cabin EJB, which we created in Chapter 4. The Cabin EJB’s deployment descriptor contains most of the tags that are needed to describe entity beans; session and message-driven beans are not much different. The differences between the versions are small but significant. We’ll use this deployment descriptor to guide our discussion in the following sections.

Here is the EJB 2.0 deployment descriptor:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE ejb-jar PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/ejb-jar_2_0.dtd"> <ejb-jar> <enterprise-beans> <entity> <description> This Cabin enterprise bean entity represents a cabin on a cruise ship. </description> <ejb-name>CabinEJB</ejb-name> <home>com.titan.cabin.CabinHomeRemote</home> <remote>com.titan.cabin.CabinRemote</remote> <local-home>com.titan.cabin.CabinHomeLocal</local-home> <local>com.titan.cabin.CabinLocal</local> <ejb-class>com.titan.cabin.CabinBean</ejb-class> <persistence-type>Container</persistence-type> <prim-key-class>com.titan.cabin.CabinPK</prim-key-class> <reentrant>False</reentrant> <cmp-version>2.x</cmp-version> <abstract-schema-name>Cabin</abstract-schema-name> ...