About the new JBoss 5 "web" configuration

[dimar1975]

Hi all,
I have downloaded the AS5 : from the release notes I have read that the new web configuration is a minimal configuration to deploy web applications: so is it just like using Tomcat ? do you have any advantage to use this server configuration against tomcat ?
Thanks a lot
marco

[peterj]

Think "Tomcat + support for JPA". Also, the configuration is JBoss-centric rather than Tomcat-centric - that is, you should be able to move your app to another JBoss configuration, such as 'default', without making any configuration changes.

Besides, the web config is something that was often asked for - a slimmed down 'default' config that supports web apps only.

[dimar1975]

Thank you very much for your reply Peter and sorry I didn't pay attention that a new JBoss5 forum was created......so maybe I was a bit OT here....

[dimar1975]

ehm sorry I forgot....when you say that has JPA support, it means that you can access an Entity Bean 3.0 deployed on a full JBoss server from your web application ?

or that you can also deploy an Entity Bean 3.0 along with your web application ?

thanks again

[jaikiran]

"dimar1975" wrote:

or that you can also deploy an Entity Bean 3.0 along with your web application ?

Yes, that's what Peter meant :) All you have to do is - place the jar containing your entities and META-INF/persistence.xml in the .war/WEB-INF/lib folder. The entities will be deployed.

[dimar1975]

thank you very much for your time.