Packaging and Deploying the Agency Web Service Using J2EE RI deploytool

This section shows how to deploy the simple Web Service to the J2EE RI. As noted before, you will need to start up the PointBase database server and J2EE RI server before starting deploytool.

Creating the Agency EAR

By choosing File, Open, load up the Day20/exercise/j2ee-ri/agency.ear enterprise application archive. This defines a single group of Entity beans called Entity which will be used by the Web Service session bean. Highlight the Agency application in the explorer on the left side of the deploytool GUI and its contents will be shown on the right side, as shown in Figure 20.13.

Figure 20.13. Partially built Agency case study EAR.

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