marc fleury wrote:
>
> |It seems to me that there is potentially some confusion about what
> |constitutes an "application". A "J2EE Application" is fairly clearly
> |defined in the J2EE spec, being a collection of "J2EE modules", i.e. ejb
> |jars, client jars, wars and rars bundled into an ear (with deployment
> |descriptors etc).
> |
> |As you've said, J2EE doesn't really say anything more about applications
>
> ...
>
> No I said that J2EE doesn't say anything about the applications once they
> are deployed. There is no central "repository" that says this is a "post
> deployment applications".
Ok, sorry, perhaps too much paraphrasing.
> The kind of mutant "redeploy this but not that in my application" requires
> such a central place
I'm not sure that I like the idea of redeploying parts of a J2EE
application - what's the value in it? I like the idea of having a
logical application that defines dependencies between J2EE applications
though.
Toby.