About Packaged Archive Projects

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If you have a Java EE application that you need to deploy to a server different from the server for which the application was developed, you might need to make some adjustments to that application.

The IDE provides the Packaged Archive project type to simplify this redeployment process. A packaged archive project is based on an existing binary archive file, such as a JAR file, a WAR file, an EAR file, an RAR file or a CAR file. Assuming the application and server are both Java EE-compliant, you do not need to change any Java source code before redeploying the application.

Packaged archive projects have the following advantages:

When you create a packaged archive project, the IDE creates a new project that contains the following files:

After you have created the packaged archive project, you can do the following things:

See Also
Redeploying a Project to a Different Server
About Deployment Descriptors
About Standard Projects
About Free-Form Projects

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