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Choosing EAR or WAR deployment

In the J2EE environment, you deploy applications in one of the following formats:

• Web application Contains the ColdFusion MX application. A web application (also called a WAR) uses a directory structure that contains a WEB-INF/web.xml deployment descriptor, which defines the servlets and context parameters it uses. J2EE application servers can deploy web applications in this directory structures as-is or in compressed WAR files that contain these directory structures. However, ColdFusion MX must run out of an expanded directory structure.

  cfusion (cfusion.war)
    WEB-INF
      web.xml
    CFIDE
    cfdocs
  CFIDE (rds.war)
    WEB-INF
      web.xml
  

  Cfusion.war contains the ColdFusion MX web application. Rds.war is a web application that redirects requests from /CFIDE to /context-root/CFIDE. It forwards requests to the ColdFusion MX Administrator when ColdFusion MX uses a context root other than /.

• Enterprise application Contains the ColdFusion MX and RDS redirector web applications. An enterprise application (also called an EAR) uses a directory structure that contains a META-INF/application.xml deployment descriptor, which defines the web applications it contains. J2EE application servers can deploy enterprise applications in these directory structures as-is or in compressed EAR files that contain these directory structures. However, ColdFusion MX must run out of an expanded directory structure.

  cfusion-ear
    META-INF
      application.xml
    cfusion-war
      WEB-INF
        web.xml
      CFIDE
      cfdocs
    rds.war
      WEB-INF
        web.xml
  

If your J2EE application server supports enterprise applications, you should install and deploy the EAR file. For more information, see Installing an EAR file or WAR files.

Note: The instructions in this chapter apply to the ColdFusion MX J2EE configuration. The ColdFusion MX server configuration contains an embedded version of JRun, which uses ColdFusion-specific JRun configuration options and mappings. For information on installing ColdFusion MX in the server configuration, see Installing the Server Configuration.

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