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When using Tomcat, aliases to the WebFOCUS web apps are created, for example, "ibi_apps" which points to Drive:\ibi\WebFOCUS77\webapps\webfocus. I can make changes to jsp files in this directory and see the changes immediately on refreshing the web browser.
Things don't appear to behave the same way in WebSphere - changes to JSP files are not seen by refreshing the web browser. I have no experience with WebSpehere, but I tried stopping/starting and that made no difference. Which seems to suggest that the web app is deployed as a war file - I would have to recreate the war file if I want to apply changes. Is this a correct assumption?
I'm not sure if I'm using the correct terminology...This message has been edited. Last edited by: Francis Mariani,
Francis
Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991
Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
WebSphere does deploy war files so any changes to files under the webfocus directory require you to recreate the war file and re-deploy it under websphere. I couldn't locate the commands to do the recreation of the war file but can reach out to people if you need help with that.
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Chuck Wolff - Focal Point Moderator WebFOCUS 7x and 8x, Windows, Linux All output Formats
Posts: 2127 | Location: Customer Support | Registered: April 12, 2005
The documentation, "WebFOCUS and ReportCaster Installation and Configuration for Windows" (wf_win_7705install.pdf) tells us how to deploy a web app, but does not tell us how to create a war file. Even though this might be a non-WebFOCUS task, I believe it should be included in the documentation.
Francis
Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991
Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
Originally posted by Francis Mariani: Thanks Chuck.
The documentation, "WebFOCUS and ReportCaster Installation and Configuration for Windows" (wf_win_7705install.pdf) tells us how to deploy a web app, but does not tell us how to create a war file. Even though this might be a non-WebFOCUS task, I believe it should be included in the documentation.
I completely disagree.
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