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Friday October 26, 2007

Help! I need a deployment descriptor

JavaEE 5 has been a huge boost for developers. One of the best changes has been elimination of deployment descriptor files for the "80%" use-cases. That has been reflected in NetBeans. In the past, when users would create and EJB Module, the ejb-jar.xml file and the sun-ejb-jar.xml file would get created automatically. Now, they are created by wizards, at the users request.

The problem with this is the fact that there are about a gazillion wizards for new files!

So, I figured I would provide a quick visual tour to the wizards for the ejb-jar.xml and the sun-ejb-jar.xml....