Special Edition Using Enterprise JavaBeans™ 2.0

Deployer Responsibilities

Part of the deployer’s job is to complete any deployment information that wasn’t supplied by the application assembler. There also might be changes needed to environment entries that were supplied but don’t reflect the true target environment. The deployer must ensure that all EJBs referenced by the application are present in the environment and that all required resources are available and accessible.

Much of what the deployer must do is outside the bounds of entering data into the deployment descriptor. The deployer is instead responsible for using tools specific to the application server and the rest of the target environment to support the references declared in the descriptor. For example, the deployer must bind ...