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100 Developing Applications for J2EE Servers
Displaying the DD Editor
modules and editing the deployment descriptors, see Chapter 12, Integrating with
Enterprise Information Systems.
Application An application module can contain any of the other types of J2EE
modules and wraps them into a single application and includes its own deployment
descriptor entries. Create an application module using the File|New|Enterprise|
Application Module wizard. For more specific information about creating application
modules and editing the deployment descriptors, see Creating an application
module in the Deploying enterprise beans chapter of Developing Applications with
Enterprise JavaBeans.
JBoss service A JBoss service module contains the definition of a service. Once
you compile the service module, a service archive (SAR) is created, ready to be
deployed to JBoss. For information about creating a JBoss service module, see
Creating a JBoss service module on page 84.
Displaying the DD Editor
After you have created a J2EE module, display the DD Editor by double clicking the
new module in the project pane. If the module is an EJB module, you must then click
the EJB DD Editor tab in the content pane of the browser. Youll also see nodes appear
in the structure pane. As an example, here is how the browser appears when a EJB
module has been double-clicked, the EJB DD Editor page in the content pane selected,
and the BEA WebLogic Platform Server 8.x is the selected server for the project:
Some of the nodes in the structure pane are expandable as they contain data already.
In this particular EJB module, two entity beans were created using the EJB designer
and added to the
MyEJBModule module. As a result, the Entity Beans node is