Mark van Hedel is an Advanced Certified ColdFusion MX7 Developer and MCI at Prisma IT. He is currently working on automating the ColdFusion development process and creating object-driven applications.
Enterprise Application aRchive (EAR) files are a standard and portable manner
for packaging applications to be deployed on J2EE application servers, such
as Adobe JRun, BEA WebLogic, and IBM WebSphere. An EAR file is, in essence,
just a big ZIP file with a special layout of the directory tree inside that
contains a full application, see the following code. EAR files have a
well-defined format and make Java bytecode truly portable. The same EAR file
that we compile and build on our i386 Windows laptop can also run on a 64-CPU
mainframe running commercial Unix.
Directory Structure of an EAR file application.ear
META-INF application.xml contextroot.war CFML source HTML sources CSS images
WEB-INF web.xml ColdFusion runtime As you can see from this directory
structure, an EAR file deployment for a ColdFusion application can include
both the CFML source code that you writ... (more)
Mark van Hedel is an Advanced Certified ColdFusion MX7 Developer and MCI at Prisma IT. He is currently working on automating the ColdFusion development process and creating object-driven applications.
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