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Asked: 2026-05-12T10:16:40+00:00

I have a J2EE application that needs to be distributed to customers, who will

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I have a J2EE application that needs to be distributed to customers, who will have application servers of their own choice. What is the recommended way of writing a build script that would compile the J2EE application sources (at customer sites) so that they will eventually be able to deploy the application on their servers ?

Moreover, what JARs should one actually use during the compilation process ? Since this is meant to an application server agnostic script, is it recommended to use the JARs (say servlet.jar, jms.jar, ejb.jar etc.) from the application server, rather than having my customers download these JARs from a particular repository ? Is there any such repository that is recommended for such JARs (JARs of J2EE APIs) ?

PS: The EAR file cannot be built locally and shipped to customers, since additional development will be done at each installation to integrate with other systems, perform customizations on the application etc.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Build the application locally, and distribute the WAR/EAR files to the customer.

    Edit:

    The situation you describe is basically that you need to provide a code base for further development by the customer. In that case I would suggest that you look into creating maven modules of your work which are pushed to a private repository accessible by the customer. You then let them know that they need to depend on module X version Y in their pom.xml, and module X then pulls in all the libraries needed in the correct versions.

    Note that if they don’t use Maven, they might use Ant Ivy for the dependency resolving.

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