Deploying a data access application

Now that we have created a JDBC provider and a data source which uses the Oracle provider, we are now ready to deploy a data access application. Our application comes in the form of an EAR file called HRLister.ear, which can be downloaded from the Packt Publishing website at the following location: http://www.packtpub.com.

The HRLister EAR file contains a single web application which, in turn, contains a servlet called listtable. The application is used to show how to deploy an application which uses a resource reference. The resource reference uses a JNDI lookup to find the data source and allows the application to connect to the HR database.

Our application contains several deployment descriptors; one is called ...

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