EJB Deployment

Unlike other application development paradigms, EJB components are not simply compiled and then run. The J2EE application server must be made aware of the components to be run in the application server and the properties of those components. The properties or attributes of these components can be used to express useful information about the behavior of the components in the process, increasing the flexibility and reuse capabilities of J2EE applications. This process of making the application server aware of the components is known as deployment (see Figure 24-7).

Figure 24-7. EJB deployment.

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