Difference between revisions of "WAR Management Portlet"

Revision as of 14:47, 11 August 2011

This is the user guide to WAR Management Portlet, if you are looking for the Development Guide please look a this page.

The WAR Management Portlet lets you import and manage the Web Application in the infrastructure.

The War Management Portlet

Through the WMP portlet you can:

• Import a new Web Application
• Update an existing Web Application
• Remove an existing Web Application

War import

The Web Application form

A new Web Application can be imported into the infrastructure using the War Import Wizard.

1. Click on the Upload War button on the bottom right of the portlet, an import wizard window will be open
2. Select the source (in the current version only local desktop is allowed)
3. Select the war file to import and click upload.
4. After the upload you have to fill all information about the application:
   • Category name and description, both are mandatory. A category let you group your web application.
   • Application name, mandatory, and description.
   • Version, mandatory, composed by three positive and integer numbers.
   • Entry points: are the entry points for your application. The root is added automatically by the hosting service.
5. Finally the war import start and a bar will show you the current progress.

The import and the web application publication are asynchronous procedures, therefore the web application will not appear immediately into the web application list. In this case try to refresh the list few seconds later.

Both Category name and Application name are alphanumeric string without spaces or special symbols.

Web application update

In any moment you can update your web application:

1. Right-click on the web application to update in the application list.
2. Select Update.
3. Select the new war file and click on the upload button.
4. Update the application information or keep the current one.
5. The application will be updated.

Web application remotion

Right-click on the web application that you want to remove and select remove. The portlet will ask you to confirm the action and then will delete the application.

The remotion and the web application un-publication are asynchronous procedures, therefore the web application will not disappear immediately from the web application list. In this case try to refresh the list few seconds later.