zip or jar when deploying on cluster?

[mroosendaal]

Hi,

On one of the wiki pages there is a howto for deploying on a clustered environment. It tells about zipping an EAR file instead of jarring it.

Is this still necessary and why? There isn't much difference between them (except for the meta-file). And if so, when i use a WAR in an EAR do i have to zip both the WAR and the EAR or just the EAR?

Thanks,
Maarten

[dimitris]

zipping and jar'ing is the same thing in this context.

You just need to "pack" the top level deployment (the .ear) so the whole thing can be trasferred to the other nodes as a single unit.