Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:
Consider J2EE 1.4, deployment descriptors are based on XML schema. J2EE 1.3 was based on DTDs.
Addition to that, I would like to mention that the elements in deployment descriptors of J2EE 1.3 must care about the order of the elements, while in J2EE 1.4, the order is not important at all... Simply it is because J2EE 1.4 applied XMl Schema, instead of DTDs....
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