Deploy

 

This topic includes the following sections:

• Overview of Deployment

• Prerequisites for Deployment

• Directions for Deploying

Overview of Deployment

After a short implementation phase, your team has now finished coding the My BuyBeans site solution. It is now time to finally deploy the new customized BEA WebLogic Components. You once again assemble your team.

You explain to the team members that deploying BEA WebLogic Components requires a few easy steps. First, you must compile the newly created components. Next, you must create a EJB deployment descriptor (DD) for the generated EJB implementation of the BeanieHat Component. This serialized object describes declarative information (i.e. information that is not included directly in the EJB code) that an Application Server uses to deploy the EJB. The Application Server in which the new WebLogic Components are to deployed then needs to be configured. Finally, BeanieHat Component instances must be created using beanie hat data given to your team by Marketing. With these four easy steps now in mind, your team proceeds.

Prerequisites for Deployment

In order to fully understand this section of the tour, it is recommended that you have a general understanding of the BEA WebLogic Application Server and its property file settings. For more information on this topic, please see the WebLogic documentation. You must also have successfully completed all steps of the Implement section of the tour.

Directions for Deploying

Step 1. Compile the BeanieHat and BeanieHatPricePolicy Components.

Note:   Ensure the BuyBeans server is shut down prior to compiling the tour.

1. Open a command prompt.

2. Navigate to the bin\win32 directory under the WebLogic Components installation directory.

3. Type tour-build at the command line and hit Enter.

4. The tour-build file contains a javac command to compile and install both Components. For more information, you might want to look at the contents of this file.

Step 2. Create deployment descriptors for the BeanieHat Component and deploy the WebLogic Components.

1. Open a command prompt (if one is not already open).

2. Navigate to the bin\win32 directory under the WebLogic Components installation directory.

3. Type tour-deploy at the command line and hit Enter.

4. The tour-deploy file contains two java commands to create a DD and deploy the BeanieHat Component. For more information, you might want to look at the contents of this file.

Step 3. Configure the target Application Server (in this case the BEA WebLogic Application server).

1. If the My BuyBeans.com WebLogic Application Server is running, shut it down.

2. Using your favorite editor, open the file weblogic.properties located in the WebLogic Components installation directory.

3. Locate the following line in the file (where WEBLOGICAC_HOME is the WebLogic Components installation directory):

   WEBLOGICAC_HOME/deploy/weblogic/cloudscape/classes/examples/extending/AlphaNumericSequencerExtensionImplDD.ser
   

4. Replace this line with the following lines (again, where WEBLOGICAC_HOME is the WebLogic Components installation directory):

   WEBLOGICAC_HOME/deploy/weblogic/cloudscape/classes/examples/extending/AlphaNumericSequencerExtensionImplDD.ser,\
   WEBLOGICAC_HOME/deploy/weblogic/cloudscape/classes/examples/buybeans/tour/BeanieHatImplDD.ser 
   

5. This statement tells the WebLogic Application Server the location of the deployment descriptor for the BeanieHat Component so that it can deploy the Component.

Step 4. Create instances of the BeanieHat Component based on Marketing beanie hat data.

1. The beanie hat data is stored in a Microsoft Excel worksheet named BeanieHats.xls . It can be found in the deploy/weblogic/cloudscape/misc directory located under the WebLogic Components installation directory. Please feel free to add or remove any beanie hat data in this file. Just be sure to export the worksheet as a tab delimited file named BeanieHats.txt . This file must be saved in the same directory as the BeanieHats.xls file. If you do add any new beanie hat data, you must include all data declared as required in the Microsoft Excel worksheet.

2. Go to Start > Programs > WebLogic Application Solutions > Examples and choose My BuyBeans.com Server to start the My BuyBeans.com WebLogic application server, and wait for it to initialize.

3. Open a command prompt (if one is not already open).

4. Navigate to the bin\win32 directory under the WebLogicAC installation directory.

5. Type tour-loader at the command line and hit Enter.