Chapter Review

This chapter discussed the steps required to package and deploy a Web application to the WebLogic Server environment.

The first half of the chapter reviewed the structure of a Web application and the contents of the Web application descriptor files web.xml and weblogic.xml . Ant-based techniques for assembling Web applications, precompiling JSP components , and creating exploded and archived Web applications were then presented. Some portions of the bigrez.com build process were also presented to illustrate best practices in these areas.

The second half of the chapter discussed techniques available for deploying and redeploying Web applications using WebLogic Server features and utilities. The emphasis in this chapter was on the best way to deploy applications to a developer workstation or stand-alone server in support of the development and unit-testing process rather than deploying and managing a production server environment.

The next two chapters complete the design and construction of the bigrez.com example application by discussing the EJB components required in the business tier to support the application requirements. Chapter 8 revisits packaging and deployment of enterprise applications, including EJB components, and will provide a complete walkthrough of the bigrez.com build and deployment process.