This chapter describes deploying the finished product onto one or more Netscape Application Server(s).

• Deploying Applications
• Saving JAR Files
• Downloading a Previously Deployed Application

1. Choose Rebuild Project from the Build menu to verify that your project is up-to-date.
2. Choose Deploy from the Project menu to invoke the Deployment Manager, which will package your project as a JAR file.
3. Specify whether you want to include source files when you deploy the project.

4. Register your server if it has not already been registered.

To deploy to one or more servers, you must register the server machine with Netscape Application Builder. If the server does not appear in the Registered Servers list, click Register. The following dialog box appears:



You must provide the following information for each deployment machine:

Option	Information to Provide
Server type	Specify whether this machine runs a web server in addition to or instead of an application server. If a web server exists on the machine where you are deploying your application, static entities like graphic images, static HTML pages, and JavaScript files can be served from there.
Server or server:port	Specify the machine name and, if necessary, an alternate port number, depending on how your server is configured.
User name and password	Specify a valid user name and password for this machine. You can get these from the administrator who installed the software on this server. Be sure this user has permission to write to the application server and/or web server document repositories.

Enter the relevant information about each deployment machine and click Register. Click Close to dismiss this dialog box when you have registered all deployment machines.

5. Select the application to be deployed, the server on which to deploy, then click Deploy to deploy your application on the server.


If you modify your project, you can choose Update instead of Deploy to update only the parts of the project that have changed.

6. Choose the Deploy tab in the Messages window and review the deployment messages.

The FormsErrors is a JAR file that contains the response to deploying an HTML file. The may contain error messages or a success message; the existence of a FormsErrors file does not by itself indicate that a problem occurred. For more information about deployment, see Deployment Guide for the Netscape Application Server.

1. Choose the Download menu item from the File menu.
2. Specify the server from which to download and the project's JAR file.

You an register a server in the same way that you register one when deploying a project. See Step 4 on page 423.



3. Choose Download to download the JAR file.

You may be prompted where to place the file.