Talk:Deployment descriptor

Is the term realy so specif?? Or is it a general term for a configuration file that describes an artefact that is deployt to some container??

The claim that DD refers to web component descriptors (web.xml) is clearly wrong. The Java EE 5 tutorial has this to say:

"There are two types of deployment descriptors: Java EE and runtime. A Java EE deployment descriptor is defined by a Java EE specification and can be used to configure deployment settings on any Java EE-compliant implementation. A runtime deployment descriptor is used to configure Java EE implementation-specific parameters. For example, the Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 9 runtime deployment descriptor contains information such as the context root of a web application, the mapping of portable names of an application’s resources to the server’s resources, and Application Server implementation-specific parameters, such as caching directives. The Application Server runtime deployment descriptors are named sun-moduleType.xml and are located in the same META-INF directory as the Java EE deployment descriptor."

124.43.42.179 03:55, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

I agree... though the descriptor files are a type of xml format, the web.xml file should have it's own page for refference. 96.51.32.36 (talk) 19:30, 12 May 2009 (UTC)