This page gives a list and a description of all the valid deployment descriptors that an AS 7.x deployment can use. This document is a work in progress.
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Descriptor |
Location |
Specification |
Description |
Info |
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jboss-deployment-structure.xml |
META-INF or WEB-INF of the top level deployment |
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This file can be used to control class loading for the deployment |
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beans.xml |
WEB-INF or META-INF |
CDI |
The presence of this descriptor (even if empty) activates CDI |
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web.xml |
WEB-INF |
Servlet |
Web deployment descriptor |
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jboss-web.xml |
WEB-INF |
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JBoss Web deployment descriptor. This can be use to override settings from web.xml, and to set AS7 specific options |
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ejb-jar.xml |
WEB-INF of a war, or META-INF of an EJB jar |
EJB |
The EJB spec deployment descriptor |
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jboss-ejb3.xml |
WEB-INF of a war, or META-INF of an EJB jar |
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The JBoss EJB deployment descriptor, this can be used to override settings from ejb-jar.xml, and to set AS7 specific settings |
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application.xml |
META-INF of an EAR |
Java EE Platform Specification |
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jboss-app.xml |
META-INF of an EAR |
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JBoss application deployment descriptor, can be used to override settings application.xml, and to set AS7 specific settings |
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persistence.xml |
META-INF |
JPA |
JPA descriptor used for defining persistence units |
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jboss-ejb-client.xml |
WEB-INF of a war, or META-INF of an EJB jar |
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Remote EJB settings. This file is used to setup the EJB client context for a deployment that is used for remote EJB invocations |
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jbosscmp-jdbc.xml |
META-INF of an EJB jar |
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CMP deployment descriptor. Used to map CMP entity beans to a database. The format is largely unchanged from previous versions. |
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ra.xml |
META-INF of a rar archive |
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Spec deployment descriptor for resource adaptor deployments |
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ironjacamar.xml |
META-INF of a rar archive |
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JBoss deployment descriptor for resource adaptor deployments |
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*-jms.xml |
META-INF or WEB-INF |
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JMS message destination deployment descriptor, used to deploy message destinations with a deployment |
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*-ds.xml |
META-INF or WEB-INF |
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Datasource deployment descriptor, use to bundle datasources with a deployment |
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application-client.xml |
META-INF of an application client jar |
Java EE6 Platform Specification |
The spec deployment descriptor for application client deployments |
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jboss-client.xml |
META-INF of an application client jar |
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The AS7 specific deployment descriptor for application client deployments |
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jboss-webservices.xml |
META-INF for EJB webservice deployments or WEB-INF for POJO webservice deployments/EJB webservice endpoints bundled in .war |
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The JBossWS 4.0.x specific deployment descriptor for webservice endpoints |
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