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What is an EAR?
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Dan Parsons
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Joined: May 30, 2007
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I have created and loaded WAR files for Web Applications on my Tomcat 4.1.27 web container.
I have also heard about EAR (Enterprise Archive) file and was wondering if I have the correct definition. On one of my Google searches it says: EAR files contain JAR files and WAR files and another says it is used for packaging one or more modules into a single archive. Module is a web application??
I assume an EAR file can contain many JAR and WAR files wrapped into one file (EAR)? Another way of looking at it is if I have for example 3 WAR files, I can put all 3 in an EAR file?
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Jesper de Jong
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Joined: Aug 16, 2005
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What you say is correct: an EAR can contain multiple JAR and WAR files. Note that you cannot deploy EAR files on Tomcat. Tomcat is a servlet and JSP container on which you can deploy WAR files. For EAR files, you need a full Java EE container.
See http://java.sun.com/javaee/ for more information, including a tutorial, on Java EE.
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