Articles by Mark van Hedel http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from Mark van Hedel en Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media SYS-CON Media Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:08:46 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss 10 Designing ColdFusion Applications for Deployment as EAR Files http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/node/235995 Enterprise Application aRchive (EAR) files are a standard and portable manner for packaging applications to be deployed on J2EE application servers, such as Adobe JRun, BEA WebLogic, and IBM WebSphere. An EAR file is, in essence, just a big ZIP file with a special layout of the directory tree inside that contains a full application, see the following code. EAR files have a well-defined format and make Java bytecode truly portable. The same EAR file that we compile and build on our i386 Windows laptop can also run on a 64-CPU mainframe running commercial Unix.<p><a href="http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/node/235995" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 19 Jul 2006 03:30:00 EDT http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/node/235995