- Standalone Enterprise Applications
- Application Server-Based Enterprise Applications
- Application Server Architecture Provider Roles
- Application Server Components
- Application Server Client Interfaces
- Application Server Client Implementations
- Enterprise Application Configuration and Deployment
- Application Service Management
- Conclusions
Enterprise Application Configuration and Deployment
Application server configuration and deployment involves establishing a set of properties that define how your enterprise applications should behave and interact at runtime. The establishment of these properties may be performed manually by setting a text-based configuration file, or it may be performed by using a GUI-based configuration and deployment tool. J2EE-based configuration involves defining standard element values in an XML-based deployment descriptor file. Many J2EE vendor products also define GUI-based mechanisms for setting these deployment descriptors.