deploytool in JAVA EE 5?

[Matthew Scott]

I am working through [or trying to] the example tutorial in the front of Head First EJB. It calls for the use of a "deploytool", but I cannot find this in the JAVA EE 5 environment I am working in.

The executable I used to load the environment is: java_ee_sdk-5_02-windows.exe


For the applications I have been doing I have used either "deploy" through NetBeans, or through the Admin Console. But I don't know where the deploy tool itself might be.

Any assistance would be very much appreciated!

[Kim Gordon]

Yes, excellent question. The deploytool from JavaEE 1.3 does not work on my current operating system, Windows 7. I tried downloading JavaEE 6 in the hopes that the version of deploytool would work on Windows 7 but alas deploytool is not even in this version, java_ee_sdk-6-windows.exe. Version 6 of JavaEE uses Glassfish which seems to be a completely different paradigm than earlier versions, and specifically the early version of JavaEE shown in Head First EJB!

[Kim Gordon]

I found a version of deploytool that works on Windows 7 in J2EE 1.4 SDK. The installer told me not to install because of system incompatibility but I installed anyway and it works much better than 1.3 J2EE SDK. So I may have a chance to follow through with reading this ancient Head First EJB book.

[Tim Moores]

If you have a version of Head First EJB that is based on J2EE (rather than  JEE), just throw it away. EJBs changed completely from J2EE 1.4 to JEE 5.

[Jesper de Jong]

If you're learning Java EE, then use a recent version. Java EE 8 has been released not long ago; Java EE 6 and older are very old, and Java EE 1.3 / 1.4 / 5 are definitely so old that they are not worth learning anymore. As Tim said, a lot has changed with regard to EJBs, so if you're learning a really old version, you're learning the old, irrelevant way it works from 10 years or more ago.

You can find Oracle's Java EE 8 Tutorial here: https://javaee.github.io/tutorial/

[Kim Gordon]

Tim Moores wrote:If you have a version of Head First EJB that is based on J2EE (rather than  JEE), just throw it away. EJBs changed completely from J2EE 1.4 to JEE 5.

This is funny. Since I was able to get the deploytool to work through the start menu and not via the command prompt I am going to try to read this ancient irrelevant tome from the past instead of simply throwing it away.

[Kim Gordon]

Jesper de Jong wrote:If you're learning Java EE, then use a recent version. Java EE 8 has been released not long ago; Java EE 6 and older are very old, and Java EE 1.3 / 1.4 / 5 are definitely so old that they are not worth learning anymore. As Tim said, a lot has changed with regard to EJBs, so if you're learning a really old version, you're learning the old, irrelevant way it works from 10 years or more ago.

You can find Oracle's Java EE 8 Tutorial here: https://javaee.github.io/tutorial/

Yeah I am following this massive boring tutorial on github now. Thank-you for the link. I have to use Windows 7 at work and even when running the deploy tool as XP via the options the program still throws an error and is unusable. So I have to follow this tutorial instead of the more fun Head First book. :/

Regards,

Kim Gordon