Complex application OC4J deployment

Question

I need an help to deploy a "local deploy" developed application in OC4J.
I tried to deploy in OC4J a simple BC4J application, succesfully.
Now, this is my situation:
I have a lot of applications which have
1) a common set of BC4J package. This package has a single table EO, VO, and an ApplicationModule. This BC4Js have a common frame in all applications.
2) a set of BC4J used for single applications and used in other applications as imported in BC4J projects.
Now, deployed in local mode, I did a .jar and imported this jar in other project.
What I have to do to make all ApplicationModule remotable?
Do I need to change manually .jpx file to change the import location of Business component?
After all, is better to have a lot of EAR with common jar inside, or is better to build a single EAR?

Answer 1

In my test workspace I created Project1 and Project1 projects.
In Project1, I created a package of BC4J components named package1
I chose "Deploy Business Components..." on Project1 and selected a Simple Archive. Upon deployment, this created me two JAR files Project1CSCommon.jar and Project1CSMT.jar.
I created a library for Project1CSMT.jar and added this library to my Project2 project's library list.
In Project2, I created another BC4J package of components named package2
I right-mouse "Import Business Components..." and I navigate to the Project1CSMT.jar and use the file dialog to "drill down" into the jar file just like a folder, and pick the package1.xml file. This results in importing package1 into Project2.
I chose "Deploy Business Components..." in Project2 and select an AppModule Session Bean (BMT).
I expand the Project2EJB.bcdeploy node in the navigator and right-mouse on the Project2EJB.deploy node to pick "Settings...".
I click on the "Profile Dependencies" tab, and check [x] Project1MiddleTier.deploy and [x] Project1Common.deploy to make those two deployment profiles a dependency of this one.
Then I right-mouse "Deploy" on the Project2EJB.bcdeploy node and it deploys my AppModule in Project2 as a remoteable application module. I go out to the file system and do:
% jar tvf Project2EJB.ear
   329 Thu Jun 20 18:31:10 CEST 2002 META-INF/application.xml
  1665 Thu Jun 20 18:31:10 CEST 2002 META-INF/data-sources.xml
   286 Thu Jun 20 18:31:10 CEST 2002 META-INF/orion-application.xml
  4361 Thu Jun 20 18:31:10 CEST 2002 Project1CSCommon.jar
13344 Thu Jun 20 18:31:10 CEST 2002 Project1CSMT.jar
25345 Thu Jun 20 18:31:10 CEST 2002 Project2EJB.jar
  9185 Thu Jun 20 18:31:10 CEST 2002 Project2EjbCommon.jarto verify that it includes my imported JAR files into the EAR file.