This topic discusses preparation for deploying a BI Beans application within JDeveloper and identifies the available deployment options.
Before deploying a BI Beans application in JDeveloper, you must perform the following tasks:
Deploy your business intelligence objects. To accomplish this task, you must decide how you want your application to reference these objects (that is, from a remote BI Beans Catalog or from the local file system of the deployment machine).
Update the Run Settings tab of the BI Beans Settings dialog box to reflect the location of the deployed objects.
After completing these tasks, you are ready to use JDeveloper to deploy your BI Beans application in either of the following ways:
During design, JDeveloper stores the XML definitions of your application's business intelligence objects in a Local Catalog in your file system. The location of this Local Catalog is specified in the Design Settings tab of the BI Beans Settings dialog box. Before deploying an application, you must ensure that the Run Settings tab of the BI Beans Settings dialog box specifies the location where you want these object definitions to be deployed.
Choose one of the following options for how your deployed application will reference its business intelligence objects:
Reference objects from a remote BI Beans Catalog (recommended
for production) -- Objects are stored and managed in the BI Beans
Catalog, which is a persistent database. This remote Catalog provides security,
the reliability of using a database, and optimized performance during search
operations.
Use the Copy
Objects to Remote Catalog wizard in JDeveloper to implement this option.
In this wizard, you have the option of specifying that you want your application's
BI Beans run settings updated automatically to reflect the Catalog that
you use during the copy operation.
Reference objects from the local file system of your deployment
machine (typically used for testing in a single user environment)
-- Objects are stored in a file-based Catalog that is not a database and
does not provide security checking or optimized searching.
To reference objects from the local file system of your deployment machine
(rather than from a remote BI Beans Catalog), perform the following procedure:
Use any FTP tool to copy the XML files and folders from the Local Catalog, which was used during design, to the folder that is to be the deployment location for your application's objects. Ensure that this folder is on the deployment machine and that you copy all your application's objects preserving the directory structure.
Update the Run Settings tab of the BI Beans Settings dialog box to specify the deployment location for your application's objects.
Deploying
a BI Beans HTML-Client Application
Deploying
a BI Beans Java-Client Application
Specifying
a BI Application User in JDeveloper