Re: Are Webservices EARs resp. WARs compatible between different
servers (Tomcat, JBoss, WebSphere,...) ?
Ulf Meinhardt wrote:
Assume I create a webservice as
a) Servlet
or
b) Session Bean
Session bean is a particular implementation detail, and not an essential
aspect of creating a web service.
I compiled this webservice with standard J2EE.
Is the resulting EAR resp. WAR compatible with all application servers like
TomCat, JBoss, Websphere,...
Yes.
or do all the application servers (above) required special classes/extensions
embedded in the webservice?
They most likely do.
All Java EE containers will comply with the standard. That means they all can
deploy a properly-constructed WAR (or EAR if they are enterprise-level). It
is the deployer's responsibility to make sure all libraries needed by the
application are in the classpath.
While WARs and EARs are compatible across all relevant platforms, the
applications they contain will still require some work, sometimes major, to
make them run in each different environment. The effort is increased if the
project relies on a container-specific library.
The old adage applies: In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in
practice they differ.
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