Deploying the Discover Electronics reference application using Forge

As part of the deployment process, the source data in reference\discover-data is copied to the <installation path>\Endeca\Apps\Discover, and Forge processes the source data as part of the baseline update. Deploying the Forge-based version of the Discover Electronics Reference Application is not recommended.

Before you begin, you must install Tools and Frameworks using the Complete Installation type of installation. The complete installation installs Forge by default. You do not need to install the Content Acquisition System (CAS) to deploy the Discover Electronics reference application using Forge.

The indexed data is loaded into two separate Dgraph instances. One is an authoring instance Dgraph and the other is a live Dgraph for the application.

To deploy the Discover Electronics reference application:

  1. Ensure that the Oracle Commerce Workbench Service is running.

  2. If you haven't already, create a directory for deployed Endeca applications, such as C:\Endeca\Apps on Windows, or /usr/local/endeca/apps on UNIX.

  3. Run the Deployment Template to create the application:

    1. Open a command prompt or command shell.

    2. Navigate to the <installation path>\ToolsAndFrameworks\<version>\deployment_template\bin directory on Windows, or <installation path>/ToolsAndFrameworks/<version>/deployment_template/bin on UNIX.

    3. Run the deploy script with the --app flag and an argument that specifies the path to the deploy.xml descriptor file:

      For example: 

      C:\Endeca\ToolsAndFrameworks\11.3.0\deployment_template\bin>deploy 
--app C:\Endeca\ToolsAndFrameworks\11.3.0\reference\discover-data\deploy.xml

    4. Confirm the Platform Services installation directory.

    5. Select y to install a base application.

    6. Specify Discover as the application name.

      Note

      The application configuration depends on this name and case sensitivity is important.

      If you enter the application name incorrectly, you must update the workbench.app.name in the WEB-INF/assembler.properties file to match the name that you entered.

    7. Specify the application directory previously created for applications. This is typically a directory, such as C:\Endeca\Apps on Windows or /usr/local/endeca/apps on UNIX.

    8. Specify the EAC port and then you can press Enter to accept the default values for subsequent prompts about port values and the Oracle Wallet. (Oracle recommends using the default values.)

    9. Specify the path to the location where you can export your application content to, or press Enter to accept the default path of ../../server/workspace/state/repository.

    10. Specify the path to the location where you can publish your authoring application content to, or press Enter to accept the default path of ../../server/workspace/state/generation_data.

      Note

      In the paths to locations for exported or published content, use forward leaning slashes (/) in Windows as well as in UNIX.

    11. Specify the language code for your Discover application. The Forge-based version of the Discover Electronics Reference Application is available in English only. Therefore, type en or accept the default setting.

  4. Navigate to the control directory of your new deployed application.

    This is located under your application directory, for example: C:\Endeca\Apps\Discover\control on Windows.

  5. Run the initialize_services script.

    This script does the following:

  6. Run the load_baseline_test_data script.

  7. Run the baseline_update script.

  8. Run the promote_content script.

  9. Confirm that the Discover Electronics reference applications are running:

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