The distributable element, by its presence in a web application deployment descriptor, indicates that this web application is programmed appropriately to be deployed into a distributed servlet container<!ELEMENT distributable EMPTY>
I believe the container should be responsible for supporting a distributable environment, and the app be programmed appropriately in order to be distributable.
1. How does the presence of this element in the web.xml force/guarantee the distributable nature of an app?
2. Assume that the app is programmed properly.
If this element is NOT specified in web.xml for the app, does it mean it cannot be deployed in a distributable environment ?
Really - what does the <distributable> tag do?
Rama
[ November 22, 2002: Message edited by: Rama Raghavan ]