Article:		JDO or CMP?
Subject:		Deployment Descriptors vs. MetaData
Date:		2003-05-23 04:50:05
From:		nickman
With the increasing use and recognition of XDoclet, I believe it is misleading to strongly differentiate between MetaData and Deployment Descriptors. XDoclet pretty much allows you to forget the fact that at build time, an XML file will be generated and bundled with your deployment. This effectively makes all the technologies and products supported by XDoclet meta data driven. So what's the diff ?

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• Deployment Descriptors vs. MetaData
  2003-05-23 15:40:43  Craig Russell | [View]
  
  
  The intent of the comparison was to use the proper terminology for the two technologies. You are right that conceptually there is little distinction between metadata and deployment descriptors.
  
  But there is a difference in the volume of data needed to specify the deployment information for CMP versus the metadata for JDO, as well as the amount of data that can be defaulted (not specified at all).