Comments on: Automating Deployment to IBM WebSphere Portal http://www.rojotek.com/blog/2008/05/22/automating-deployment-to-ibm-websphere-portal/ Product Development in Brisbane Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:47:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Adrian Sutton http://www.rojotek.com/blog/2008/05/22/automating-deployment-to-ibm-websphere-portal/#comment-18335 Adrian Sutton Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:18:15 +0000 http://www.rojotek.com/blog/2008/05/22/automating-deployment-to-ibm-websphere-portal/#comment-18335 Bloody picky fairies... What's the difference between EAR and WAR anyway? You have one and the other gets chopped off - it's all related. On the plus side, it appears to work now. Though for the life of me I can't remember what the previous version number was so it might just be a no-op. Doing nothing is better than breaking everything though. :) Bloody picky fairies… What’s the difference between EAR and WAR anyway? You have one and the other gets chopped off - it’s all related.

On the plus side, it appears to work now. Though for the life of me I can’t remember what the previous version number was so it might just be a no-op. Doing nothing is better than breaking everything though. :)

]]> By: robert http://www.rojotek.com/blog/2008/05/22/automating-deployment-to-ibm-websphere-portal/#comment-18326 robert Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:21:30 +0000 http://www.rojotek.com/blog/2008/05/22/automating-deployment-to-ibm-websphere-portal/#comment-18326 <p> The fairies say -- RTFM (read the fairy manual) -- "copy the files to the exploded WAR directory". Unfortunately unzipping an ear doesn't also unzip the embedded war. so unzipping an ear file to the exploded EAR directory != to copying files to an exploded war directory. Given that the choice of work for the fairies today might be between fixing this, and doing documentation, you might get some help :).  In additon, copying the contents of the ear over the top will almost certainly result in the IBM deployment files being overwritten, which is a bad thing, and will cause additional problems. </p> The fairies say — RTFM (read the fairy manual) — "copy the files to the exploded WAR directory". Unfortunately unzipping an ear doesn't also unzip the embedded war. so unzipping an ear file to the exploded EAR directory != to copying files to an exploded war directory. Given that the choice of work for the fairies today might be between fixing this, and doing documentation, you might get some help :).  In additon, copying the contents of the ear over the top will almost certainly result in the IBM deployment files being overwritten, which is a bad thing, and will cause additional problems.

]]> By: robert http://www.rojotek.com/blog/2008/05/22/automating-deployment-to-ibm-websphere-portal/#comment-18105 robert Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:49:46 +0000 http://www.rojotek.com/blog/2008/05/22/automating-deployment-to-ibm-websphere-portal/#comment-18105 hmmm... as fun as it is to have conversations with people I'm currently working with on my blog, I think I'll pick up this thread elsewhere... if magical fairies produce outcomes there might be a follow up entry. hmmm…

as fun as it is to have conversations with people I’m currently working with on my blog, I think I’ll pick up this thread elsewhere… if magical fairies produce outcomes there might be a follow up entry.

]]> By: Adrian Sutton http://www.rojotek.com/blog/2008/05/22/automating-deployment-to-ibm-websphere-portal/#comment-18089 Adrian Sutton Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:02:11 +0000 http://www.rojotek.com/blog/2008/05/22/automating-deployment-to-ibm-websphere-portal/#comment-18089 That was an update sadly. My magical fairies are looking a little buggy. :P I'm not stressed about it though, but it would be good to sort it out - the initial manual install process still needs work and documentation, it doesn't really have a good starting point at the moment. That was an update sadly. My magical fairies are looking a little buggy. :P

I’m not stressed about it though, but it would be good to sort it out - the initial manual install process still needs work and documentation, it doesn’t really have a good starting point at the moment.

]]> By: robert http://www.rojotek.com/blog/2008/05/22/automating-deployment-to-ibm-websphere-portal/#comment-18085 robert Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:14:45 +0000 http://www.rojotek.com/blog/2008/05/22/automating-deployment-to-ibm-websphere-portal/#comment-18085 you'll probably find that it works well for updates -- not quite as well for first time deploys.... and that it might take a bit of work for the magical fairies to make things work the way you want :) you’ll probably find that it works well for updates — not quite as well for first time deploys…. and that it might take a bit of work for the magical fairies to make things work the way you want :)

]]> By: Adrian Sutton http://www.rojotek.com/blog/2008/05/22/automating-deployment-to-ibm-websphere-portal/#comment-18080 Adrian Sutton Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:24:52 +0000 http://www.rojotek.com/blog/2008/05/22/automating-deployment-to-ibm-websphere-portal/#comment-18080 This script (and the assembled one* in ~aj/deployE2/ ) however doesn't handle mapping resources like databases so you wind up with a rather blank E2 and have to deploy manually. I wonder if the magical fairies could fix that... *Rob's blog - bringing a bit of IKEA to your life... :) This script (and the assembled one* in ~aj/deployE2/ ) however doesn’t handle mapping resources like databases so you wind up with a rather blank E2 and have to deploy manually. I wonder if the magical fairies could fix that…

*Rob’s blog - bringing a bit of IKEA to your life… :)

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