CHAPTER 7J2EE Architectures and Deployment Alternatives

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

—Punch (1846), X, 16

After you create the application code and debug it, you need to install it into the production environment. The term deployment refers to the process of copying and installing the necessary application and configuration files into a specific server environment. When you develop an application, you choose the server architecture long before you write the code. Therefore, you will know ahead of time what server will be assigned to the database, what the client platforms will consist of, and what use you will make of web servers. In the past, the architecture decision was often made with little guidance from the industry. This ...

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