5 Packaging

This chapter describes packaging. A Java EE application is packaged into one or more standard units for deployment to any Java EE platform–compliant system. Each unit contains a functional component or components, such as an enterprise bean, web page, servlet, or applet, and an optional deployment descriptor that describes its content.

The following topics are addressed here:

• Packaging Applications

• Packaging Enterprise Beans

• Packaging Web Archives

• Packaging Resource Adapter Archives