Tutorial Example Directory Structure - The Java EE 5 Tutorial (original) (raw)

Tutorial Example Directory Structure

To facilitate iterative development and keep application source separate from compiled files, the tutorial examples use the Java BluePrints application directory structure.

Each application module has the following structure:

build.xml: Ant build file
src/java: Java source files for the module
src/conf: configuration files for the module, with the exception of web applications
web: JSP and HTML pages, style sheets, tag files, and images
web/WEB-INF: configuration files for web applications
nbproject: NetBeans project files

Examples that have multiple application modules packaged into an enterprise application archive (or EAR) have submodule directories that use the following naming conventions:

_example-name_-app-client: Application clients
_example-name_-ejb: Enterprise bean JAR files
_example-name_-war: web applications

The Ant build files (build.xml) distributed with the examples contain targets to create a build subdirectory and to copy and compile files into that directory; adist subdirectory, which holds the packaged module file; and a client-jar directory, which holds the retrieved application client JAR.