Deploying a data access application

Now that we have created a JDBC provider and a data source which uses the provider, we are now ready to deploy a data access application. Our application comes in the form of an EAR file called HRLister.ear, which can be downloaded from the PACKT Publishing web site at the following location: www.packtpub.com.

The HRLister EAR file contains a single web application which, in turn, contains a servlet called listtable. The application is used to show how to deploy an application which uses a resource reference. The resource reference uses a JNDI lookup to find the data source and allow the application to connect to the HR database.

Our application contains several deployment descriptors; one is called application.xml and the other is called web.xml. The two descriptors detail certain configuration information which will be used by WebSphere during deployment.

During our deployment, we will select the detailed approach so we can see what kinds of steps are...