A deployment descriptor is an XML document with a .xml extension. It defines a component’s deployment settings. It declares transaction attributes and security authorization for an enterprise bean. The information provided by a deployment descriptor is declarative and therefore it can be modified without changing the source code of a bean.
The J2EE server reads the deployment descriptor at run time and acts upon the component accordingly.
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