Background

While developing a java application specially a J2EE application, generally more importance is given to the code, the framework used and it's optimization and most of the time the packaging gets overlooked.

Generally developers package the J2EE applications using some tools or wizard. It works well for simple web projects or J2EE application, which has few web applications. But when it comes to complex J2EE application with many interdependency this approach some time may work, but might not optimized. This blog is mainly to discuss the class loader details starting from the basics to vendor specific way of packaging application.