How to Update an Application

If you want to update an application with changes that you have made to the Application Archive, you can redeploy the application to your Managed Servers or cluster.

Steps

1. In the Common Tasks section in the browser interface, click WebLogic 9.

2. Click the Components link.

   The Components page is displayed.

3. Navigate to the location of the Application Archive component that you want to update.

   Click the Change Folder link to browse through the file system to select the location of the Application Archive.

4. In the Component column, click the Application Archive component that you want to update.

   The Components Details page is displayed.

5. In the Component Procedures table, select the correct procedure to update the application.

   • Click the Run link in the Install: Redeploy row to directly redeploy an application from an Application Archive component.

   • Click the Run link in the Install: RedeployAppPlan row to redeploy an application from an Application Archive With Plan container.

   The Plans Details Run page is displayed.

6. Select the target host or target host set.

   Target either a Managed Server or WebLogic Cluster.

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   Note –

   The target host must be a member of the com.sun.weblogic#DeploymentTargetHS host set.

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7. In the Plan Parameters section, specify any options that you want to use with the redeployment plan.

   • If you want to pass any Java arguments to the weblogic.Deployer command, type the arguments in the Java Arguments Used for weblogic.Deployer field.

     For information on how to perform deployment tasks using the weblogic.Deployer command, see BEA's WebLogic Server weblogic.Deployer Command-Line Reference document.

   • If you are using an Application Archive With Plan component to deploy your application, specify the location of the Deployment Plan in the Path for Deployment Plan text field.

   • In the Required WebLogic Target for Deployment text field, specify the systems that you want to update.

   • In the Optional WebLogic Submodule Targets for Deployment text field, specify the application submodules to target with your redeployment.

   • In the Deployment Name Used for This Application text field, specify the name of the Application Archive or Application Archive With Plan component that you want to redeploy.

   • In the App Version text field, specify the version number of the application that you want to redeploy.

8. Click Run Plan (includes preflight).

   The application is uninstalled from the target host or host set.