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Vendor Specific Files, EJB-JAR
 
  UC ingot Vendor specific files contain information about the container's configuration, or any other information the vendor chooses to store in a separate file or database.  There is not an EJB specification for these files.
 
  • EJB-JAR
    • Once we've compiled our source files, generated our deployment descriptor, and completed the vendor-specific files, we're ready to create an ejb-jar file.  This is a file in the jar format which contains the above entries.  Compressing these into one file makes deployment easier.
    • We can use the jar tool (located in the JAVA_HOME\bin directory), or use Ant.  Apache Ant is a popular open source Java build tool that is used frequently in bean creation.
    • manifest.mf is included in the jar, but is built by the jar tool.
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