After you create a directory tree of source files, precompiled JSP files, and Java class files for your console extension, archive the directory tree in a WAR file and copy the WAR file into your WebLogic Server domain. For information about the files and directories to create in your extension's directory tree, see Create a Directory Tree for the Extension.
If you want to divide your console extensions into independently deployable components, you can create and deploy multiple archives that contain subsets of your extension. Each archive must contain all of the classes and portal framework files needed to render its own content. For example, if your extension modifies the Administration Console Look and Feel as well as adds portlets to the desktop, you can create one archive for the Look and Feel extension and another archive that contains the files needed to add your portlet to the desktop.
To archive and deploy your console extension:
Archive your extension directory into a WAR file. The name of the WAR file has no programmatic significance, so choose a name that is descriptive for your purposes.
The contents of your root-dir directory must be the root of the archive; the root-dir directory name itself must not be in the archive. If you use the Java jar command to create the archive, enter the command from the root-dir directory. For example:
c:\root-dir\> jar -cf my-extension.war *
Copy the WAR file into each domain's domain-dir/console-ext directory, where domain-dir is the domain's root directory.
Restart the Administration Server for each domain.
If the Administration Console encounters deployment errors, it outputs error and warning messages to standard out and to the Administration Server's server log file.
If you do not see error or warning messages and you do not see your extension in the Administration Console, you might have named the wrong parent UI control in your netuix-extension.xml file. For example, if you name a parent UI control that does not render tabs for its children, then your extension is deployed but there is no menu control for accessing it.