13. Formats and Deployment of J2EE Applications

This chapter describes the J2EE application formats that can be executed with the J2EE servers and the J2EE application deploy, un-deploy, and replace functionality that can be executed for each format.

Organization of this chapter

13.1 Organization of this chapter

13.2 Executable J2EE application formats

13.3 Archive-format J2EE applications

13.4 Exploded archive-format J2EE applications

13.5 Deploying and un-deploying J2EE applications

13.6 Replacing J2EE applications

13.7 Redeploying J2EE applications

13.8 Detecting updates and reloading the J2EE applications

13.9 WAR applications