Using the iPlanet Application Server Customizer
Once you have created a Web Application module, you
must customize the module to deploy on the iPlanet Application Server.
To customize a web module for deployment on the iPlanet Application Server:
- Select the web module you want to customize.
- Select the web.xml or ias-web.xml node and right click to display the context menu.
- Select Open using the iPlanet App Server Customizer.
The iPlanet Application Server Customizer consists of the following tabs:
- General - Specifies overall attributes for your Web Application.
- Servlet - Specifies the mapping between servlets and the URL pattern that will invoke them.
- Environment - Identifies environmental elements specific to your Web Application.
- Security - Specifies security constraints to protect web content by defining a resource collection.
- Roles - Declares security roles that are actually used within the organization using this Web Application.
- References - Identifies EJB and resource factory references in the source code of any Web Application component.
- iAS - Configures the Web Application targeted to your operational iAS environment.
- Context - Declares the Web Application's servlet context initialization parameters.
- Errors - Maps error codes to a resource within the Web Application.
- NLS - Specifies substitute character sets when running the Web Application in different locales.
- MIME - Identifies the mapping between MIME types and MIME Extensions.
The information you specify in the Customizer appears in the deployment XML files for the module.
These declarations for the Web Application module are saved in a war.xml file and the
iAS-specific data is saved in an ias-war.xml file. These files are saved in the /WEB-INF
directory at the root of the archive. In addition to containing module-level data, these files also
contain component-level information specific to the servlets/JSPs in the Web Application.
The Document Type Definition (DTD) specification defines the XML grammar for the Customizer files.
The Customizer DTDs wer installed during iPlanet Application Server installation at <ias_installation_directory>/ias/Apps.
When you create a web module you specify the deployment information using the Customizer Editor.
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