Expanded Deployment

Typically, you package your application into an EAR file before deploying it to OC4J. However, you can deploy an application while still in its expanded directory structure. Because you can skip the packaging step, this is convenient during development and testing. For example, using JDeveloper, you work on an application in its expanded directory structure. Using expanded deployment, you can deploy the expanded directory structure as often as you want without having to re-archive before each deployment.

To configure OC4J for expanded deployment, edit the <OC4J_HOME>\j2ee\home\config\server.xml file and modify the application element for your application to specify a path to the root of the expanded directory for your application. Example 28-3 shows an application element for application myapp with its path attribute set to the root of its expanded directory.

Example 28-3 server.xml for Expanded Deployment

<application-server  ...>
    ...
    <!-- Regular EAR deployment -->
    <application name="app" path="../../home/applications/app.ear" start="true" />

    <!-- Expanded deployment -->
    <application name="myapp" path="C:/projects/myapp" start="true" />
    ...
</application-server>