5 Understanding Application Deployment

Packaging means assembling all parts of the application in a way that can be correctly interpreted and used by the infrastructure when the application is deployed into an application server or run in a stand-alone JVM.

For more information, see Chapter 6 "Entity Packaging" in the JPA Specification:

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=317

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Integrating with an Application Server

• About the Persistence Unit

• Integrating Clustering