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The implementations of components, either individual or composite, all form reusable units that can be run multiple times in different environments (in much the same way as you have multiple instances of a Java class). A composite, with its configuration information, gets packaged into a deployable unit called a contribution which gets contributed to the domain. Artifacts may be shared between contributions, for example Java classes, XSD files, WSDL files,etc.

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