Business-level applications

A business-level application is a logical administration model that provides a definition of an application, as it makes sense to the business. BLAs are stored in the product configuration repository, just like standard JEE applications. A business-level application can contain artifacts such as Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications or modules, shared libraries, data files, and other business-level applications. You might use a business-level application to group related components or to add capability to an existing application. For example, suppose you want to add new capability to a Java EE application already deployed on a product server. You can add that capability by creating a new business-level application and grouping several JEE artifacts. Each artifact may be an independently-working application and when coupled with another, can extend functionality of the BLA as a whole. In some cases, you do not even need to change the deployed...