This chapter is for the Web Component provider; that is, the person in charge of developing the web components on the server side.
A Web Component is a generic term that denotes both JSP pages and servlets. Web components are packaged in a .war file and can be deployed in a JOnAS server via the web service. Web components can be integrated in a J2EE application by packing the .war file in an .ear file (refer to Chapter 22 Defining the EAR Deployment Descriptor).
The JOnAS distribution includes a Web application example called The EarSample example (see http://www.objectweb.org/jonas/current/examples/earsample).
The directory structure of this application is as follows:
| etc/xml | Contains the web.xml file that describes the web application. |
| etc/resources/web | Contains HTML pages and images; JSP pages can also be placed here. |
| src/org/objectweb/earsample/servlets | Servlet sources |
| src/org/objectweb/earsample/beans | Beans sources |
If beans from another application will be used, the bean directory is not needed.