Deploy questions for portal 7

Question

Hi, BEA portal gurus,
I have several questions about Portal web application deployment.
1. If I try to manually deploy a new portal web application(not using the
wizard hot deployment), it seems that I have to take the following steps to
make it work. First in the console, I need to modify the application
descriptor and add a new web module. Second, I need to undeploy the whole
enterprise application and redeploly the whole application. Is there any
other easier way to do it? The redeployment of the whole application takes a
long time.
2. In http://edocs.bea.com/wls/docs70/webapp/deployment.html#139318, it
explains a lot about web application deployment in weblogic server. In the
secion "reploying a web application in exploded directory format", it says:
****You can redeploy a Web Application deployed in exploded directory format
when using auto-deployment by modifying a special file called REDEPLOY, or
you can use the Administration Console, or you can cause a partial redeploy
by copying a new version of a class file over an old in the WEB-INF/classes
directory.*****
I am more confused than I was before I read this document. I think the first
approach --- modify the REDEPLOY is not necessary, because when I modify a
jsp or html in my portal web application, the server can pick it up right
away. Of course, I change the jsp check interval setting. Besides, I never
get the third appoach to work. Whenever I modify the classes and copy it to
the WEB-INF/classes, the server can not do auto-redeployment for me. I have
to restart the server, or redeploy the web application module in the console
to make it work.
Can anyone explain it to me? Thanks a lot in advance.
Surge.

Answer 1

Hi Kathleen,
Please check message server settings on
<u><i>visual admin tool:</i></u><b>server->kernel->cluster manager</b> and check <b>ms.host</b> and <b>ms.port</b> values from the table. At my first try, I thought the port number was 50000 since it was J2EE message port, after checking it in visual admin tool I realized that, it was the same port you use for local which was 3601.
If this is still not working either then do it manually as follows:
Copy your applicationName.ear file into your sever. The directory that you can find the .ear file is <b>C:\documents and settings\admin\documents\SAP\workspace\filename.ear</b>
**Start your visual admin tool
server->services->deploy
on the right hand side you will see <b>server</b>->webdynpro
***On the right panel click on <b>deploy&start</b>
I hope this will work for you,and please do not forget reward points if I could help you a little.
Cheers,
Serkan