Learning more about application deployment

Resolving The Problem

Overview

• Administrative console install wizard
• Click Applications > New application > New Enterprise Application in the console navigation tree and follow instructions in the wizard.


• Monitored directory
• Add an EAR file or module to a monitoredDeployableApps subdirectory of an application server or deployment manager profile.



For base (stand-alone) application servers, the monitored directory is the monitoredDeployableApps/servers/server_namedirectory of the application server profile.




For deployment managers, a deployment manager profile has the following monitored directories:

• monitoredDeployableApps/servers/server_name
• monitoredDeployableApps/nodes/node_name/servers/server_name
• monitoredDeployableApps/clusters/cluster_name


• Application properties files
• Create a properties file that specifies to install or update application files. Then, run the wsadmin applyConfigProperties command in any of the following ways:
• In a script
• At a command prompt
• By adding the properties file to a monitoredDeployableApps/deploymentProperties monitored directory


• wsadmin scripts
• Invoke AdminApp object install commands in a script or at a command prompt.


• Job manager runs wsadmin scripts
• Invoke AdminTask.submitJob -jobType installApplication command in a script or at a command prompt.


• Java application programming interfaces
• Install programs by completing the steps in Installing an application through programming.


• Rapid deployment tools
• Briefly, do the following:
1. Update your J2EE application files.
2. Set up the rapid deployment environment.
3. Create a free-form project.
4. Launch a rapid deployment session.
5. Drop your updated application files into the free-form project.

• drop the application into a previously-defined dropins directory
• add an application entry to the server configuration