Weblogic Server Deployment Basics
Overview of Deployment:
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Two views of deployment:
• Developers :
–Development environment
–Single stand-alone machine
–Deploy over and over again at will during the testing phase
• Administrators:
–Production environment
–Multiple WebLogic Server instances or clusters
What Is Deployed?
Deploy Java EE application in:
- Exploded form:
–Directory structure very important
–Easier to update individual pieces
–Harder to keep track of the whole collection
- Archive form
–Similar to tar or zip, can be maintained with those tools
–Type: .jar, .war, .ear, .rar, and so on
–Contains code, metacode, descriptors (xml), directories