EJB.17.5 Deprecated in EJB 1.1

This section describes the deployment information that was defined in EJB 1.0, and is deprecated in EJB 1.1.

EJB.17.5.1 EJB JAR Manifest

The JAR manifest file is no longer used by the EJB architecture to identify the enterprise beans contained in an EJB JAR file.

EJB 1.0 used the Manifest file to identify the individual enterprise beans that were included in the EJB JAR file. In EJB 1.1, the enterprise beans are identified in the deployment descriptor, so the information in the manifest is no longer needed.

EJB.17.5.2 Serialized Deployment Descriptor JavaBeans Components

The mechanism of using serialized JavaBeans components as deployment descriptors has been replaced by the XML-based deployment descriptor.