Working with Enterprise Applications

The following table shows how to work with enterprise applications.

Number one
Create the application and module projects
  1. Register an application server.
  2. Create the project for the enterprise application.

Number two
Code the modules
  1. Create web components in the web application modules.
  2. Create new session beans and message-driven beans.
  3. Generate entity classes or entity beans from existing database tables or use the Database Explorer to create database tables.
  4. Call enterprise beans from web application modules and other enterprise beans.
  5. Use server resources like databases and JMS messages.

Number three
Configure the application
  1. Edit the enteprise application's .
  2. Select libraries and other external resources to bundle with the EAR file.
  3. Set runtime options such as the application's default web page and target application server.

Number four
Build the project
  1. Choose Build > Build Main Project from the main menu or right-click the project and choose Build.

Number five
Deploy the application
  1. Right-click the enterprise application project and choose Undeploy and Deploy to undeploy the enterprise application if it is already deployed, and then deploy the enterprise application to the target application server and domain.
  2. Right-click any of the application's module projects and choose Run to deploy the module without deploying the other modules in the application.

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