What is deployment plan in weblogic?

Posted by iva on February 28th, 2018

A deployment plan is an XML document  and it is used to define an application's deployment configuration for a specific WebLogic Server environment which includes development, test, or production etc. The most commonly used application packages are Java Archive (jar) , Web Archive (war) or Enterprise Archive (ear)  in JavaEE world . They includes the  application servers to deploy JavaEE application using above packages, standard rules (based on the archive option) needs to be followed to create folder structure to keep application specific java classes, dependent libraries or deployment descriptors etc. Most commonly used deployment descriptor files are Web Archive, Java Archive, Enterprise Archive etc. Developers describe their application information’s and provides instructions to application server to deploy them accordingly through deployment descriptors.