SE452: J2EE Deployment [22/29]

The goal of J2EE is to divide J2EE Development/Deployment up among several groups. These are defined as:

• Application Component Provider: - HTML, documents, EJBs, Servlets, etc
• Application Assembler: - creates the ear/war file
• Deployer: - installs, configures, and executes the application. Configuration is done via deployment descriptors.

For this class, you will be all three (but I will be just the deployer when I grade your homework), but how does this work in real life? What is nice about doing things this way?