Packaging and Deploying J2EE Applications

The installation of a typical desktop application, such as a word processor, is usually a straightforward affair. The installation program will ask you a few questions about the functionality you require and where it should install its files. It will also examine parts of your desktop machine (such as the Windows registry) to discover whether any components that it relies on are already installed. Normally, such an installation takes in the order of a few minutes—half an hour at most.

The installation of a distributed enterprise application is unlike that of a packaged desktop application. The installation of a desktop application is reasonably straightforward because

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