Navigating to the Home Page for WebCenter Portal Applications

6-8 Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle WebCenter ■ WebCenter Spaces - From the home page, click links in Related Components to navigate to the WebCenter Spaces application itself, WebLogic Server installation pages, and MDS repository pages in Fusion Middleware Control. See also, Section 6.2, Navigating to the Home Page for WebCenter Spaces . ■ WebCenter Portal applications - The Application Deployment menu on the J2EE application home page offers direct navigation to the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console, and pages relating to WebCenter, ADF, MDS repository, and security configuration and administration. See also, Section 6.3, Navigating to the Home Page for WebCenter Portal Applications . 7 Deploying WebCenter Applications 7-1 7 Deploying WebCenter Applications This chapter provides instructions for deploying, undeploying, and redeploying WebCenter Portal applications from an Enterprise Archive, or EAR file, created with Oracle JDeveloper for information on how to create an EAR file, see How to Create Deployment Profiles in Oracle JDeveloper in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Developers Guide for Oracle WebCenter. It does not contain instructions for deploying or installing Oracle WebCenter Spaces. For information about installing Oracle WebCenter Spaces and other WebCenter components, see Installing Oracle WebCenter in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation Guide for Oracle WebCenter. For information about deploying WSRP and PDK-Java portlet producer applications, see Section 23.8, Deploying Portlet Producer Applications. This chapter includes the following sections: ■ Section 7.1, Deploying WebCenter Portal Applications ■ Section 7.2, Undeploying WebCenter Portal Applications ■ Section 7.3, Redeploying WebCenter Portal Applications ■ Section 7.4, Post-Deployment Configuration Audience The content of this chapter is intended for Fusion Middleware administrators users granted the Admin or Deployer role through the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console. See also, Section 1.8, Understanding Administrative Operations, Roles, and Tools.

7.1 Deploying WebCenter Portal Applications

This section describes the steps required to deploy a WebCenter Portal application created in JDeveloper to a production domain. The deployment steps in this section assume that you are deploying an EAR file, know its location, and that the domain to which you want to deploy exists. For information on how to create a WebLogic Server domain, see Creating a New Domain in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation Guide for Oracle WebCenter. For more information about deploying applications, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Deploying Applications to Oracle WebLogic Server. This section includes the following topics: ■ Section 7.1.1, Deployment Roadmap ■ Section 7.1.2, Deployment Prerequisites ■ Section 7.1.3, Preparing the Application EAR File 7-2 Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle WebCenter ■ Section 7.1.4, Creating a Managed Server ■ Section 7.1.5, Creating and Registering the Metadata Service Repository ■ Section 7.1.6, Deploying the Application to a WebLogic Managed Server ■ Section 7.1.7, Migrating Customizations and Data Between Environments ■ Section 7.1.8, Configuring Applications to Run in a Distributed Environment

7.1.1 Deployment Roadmap

The flow chart and table in this section provide an overview of the prerequisites and tasks required to deploy a WebCenter Portal application to an Oracle WebLogic Managed Server. Figure 7–1 shows the steps to deploy a WebCenter Portal application, and the roles that will carry them out. Figure 7–1 Deploying a WebCenter Portal Application to a Managed Server Table 7–1 shows the tasks, sub-tasks and who will need to carry them out to deploy a WebCenter portal application from JDeveloper.