RE: JSF and App Servers

>(one of the mixed benefits of J2EE is that everything gets encapsulated
and can stand on its own)

Glad you brought this up, because I have been wondering about it for
some time.  In the RPG world we can bind a component (say service
program) by reference and as long as the bound component is on the
machine and in the current library list, it can then be used by the
consuming app.  How would one do this in Java?

What are the packaging practices others use for doing J2EE development?
Does a whole application get put into an EAR or does each component have
it's own EAR file (one could describe component as a business logic
class or a jsp page)? Is it possible to share an object across EAR's
without that object being duplicated?

I can definitely see the benefits to having and EAR file that is
independent from anything else, but that also creates a maintenance
nightmare if you have a lot of reusable code.

Thoughts?
Aaron Bartell


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Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 9:27 AM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: RE: [WDSCI-L] JSF and App Servers

WDSC by default puts all the JARs required by the web module into the
WEB-INF/lib directory (one of the mixed benefits of J2EE is that
everything gets encapsulated and can stand on its own).  You can
identify any non-standard (or not-standard-yet) classes because the
packages wil start with com.ibm.


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[mailto:wdsci-l-bounces+rdean=landstar.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 6:17 PM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: [WDSCI-L] JSF and App Servers

As I read different groups implementation of JSF (IBM, Sun, etc) I am
finding that they all have their own custom JSP tag lib for the JSF
components.

My question is specifically this.  What do I need to watch out for if I
develop my JSF in WDSc using jsf-ibm.jar and deploy that to Tomcat 5?
Note that I am not using WDO which I have heard is IBM specific (for
now).

Thanks in advance,
Aaron Bartell

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