Steps to deploy a web application

Steps to deploy a web application

1. Step 1: Arrange the resources in the prescribed directory format

   • Servlets
   • JSPs
   • Deployment descriptors
   • Static Files

2. Step 2: Write the Web Application deployment descriptor (web..xml)

   • Define security constraints
   • Register servlets
   • Register JSP tag libraries
   • define other Web Application parameters
   • Define servlet initialization parameters

3. Step 6: Assign deployment attributes for Web Application

   • Open the Administration Console
     • Select the Web Application node
       • Select our Web Application
         • Assign the Web Application to a WebLogic Server, cluster or Virtual Host
           • Select the File tab and define the appropriate attributes

4. Step 5: Deploy the Web Application on WebLogic Server in one of two ways:

   • Using the Administration Console
     • a. Select the Web Applications node in the left pane
       • b. Click Install a new Web Application
         • c. Browse to the location in file system of the .war fiile
           • d. Click Upload
             • e. Copy a .war file or the top -level directory containing a Web Application in exploded directory format into the mydomain/config/applications directory of our WebLogic Server distribution
               • f. (optional) Use the administration Concole to configure the Web Application
   • Copying the Web Application into the applications directory or our domain

5. Step 4: Archive the file in the above directory structure into a .war file

   • To create a .war archive, use this command line from the root directory containing our Web Application:
     • jar cvof myWebApp.war

6. Step 3: Create the WebLogic-Specific Deployment Descriptor (weblogic.xml)

   • Define JSP properties
   • Define JNDI mappings
   • Define security role mappings
   • Define HTTP session parameters
   • If do not need to define any of the attributes defined in this file, we don't need to create the file