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Deploying Applications to WebLogic Server

# Introduction and Roadmap

The following sections describe the audience for and organization of this document:

- Document Scope and Audience
- Guide to This Document
- Related Documentation
- New and Changed Deployment Features in This Release

# Document Scope and Audience

This document is for administrators who want to deploy Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications or application modules to WebLogic Server® instances or clusters. It is assumed that you are working in a production environment, which is generally characterized by multiple WebLogic Server instances or clusters running on multiple machines. It is also assumed that you have one or more application module archive files that have been tested and are ready to deploy on a production server.

If you are an engineer, you may need to perform activities such as:

- Deploying an application in a development environment
- Packaging an application for delivery to an administrator or deployer
- Exporting the configuration of an application for deployment to a testing, staging, or production environment

See Developing WebLogic Server Applications for information about performing these development-related tasks.

# Guide to This Document

- This chapter, Introduction and Roadmap, describes the organization of this document and highlights new deployment features introduced in BEA WebLogic Server 9.1.
- Understanding WebLogic Server Deployment provides an overview of deployment features used in WebLogic Server.
- Preparing Applications and Modules for Deployment explains how to prepare application and module files for deployment to WebLogic Server.
- Configuring Applications for Production Deployment how to configure an application for deployment to a specific WebLogic Server environment.
- Deploying Applications and Modules describes basic and advanced techniques for deploying applications to Weblogic Server.
- Updating Applications in a Production Environment explains how to safely update, redeploy, and reconfigure applications that you have deployed to a production environment.
- Managing Deployed Applications describes common tasks that an Administrator performs when managing deployed applications and modules.
- weblogic.Deployer Command-Line Reference provides a complete reference for the `weblogic.Deployer` tool syntax.
- w eblogic.PlanGenerator Command-Line Reference describes how to use the weblogic.PlanGenerator utility to create a basic deployment plan.
- Exporting an Application for Deployment to New Environments describes how to export an application's WebLogic Server deployment configuration to a custom deployment plan, which administrators use in deploying the application into non-development environments.
- Deployment Plan Reference and Schema provides additional information about deployment plan workflows, schema, and configuration.

# Related Documentation

For additional information about deploying applications and modules to WebLogic Server, see these documents:

- Developing WebLogic Server Applications describes how to deploy applications during development using the `wldeploy` Ant task, and provides information about the WebLogic Server deployment descriptor for Enterprise Applications.
- The WebLogic Server J2EE programming guides describe the J2EE and WebLogic Server deployment descriptors used with each J2EE application and module:

- Developing Web Applications, Servlets, and JSPs for WebLogic Server
- Programming WebLogic Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
- Programming WebLogic Server Resource Adapters
- Programming WebLogic Web Services for WebLogic Server

- Programming WebLogic JDBC describes the XML deployment descriptors for JDBC application modules.
- Programming WebLogic JMS describes the XML deployment descriptors for JMS application modules.

# New and Changed Deployment Features in This Release

This version of WebLogic Server includes support for production redeployment of Web Services that meet certain criteia, as described in Requirements and Restrictions for Using Production Redeployment.

Additionally, many new and changed features were introduced in WebLogic Server 9.0.

For new and changed deployment features introduced in WebLogic Server 9.0, see New and Changed Deployment Features in This Release in the 9.0 version of this manual.

For a description of all new and changed features introduced in WebLogic Server 9.0, see What's New in WebLogic Server 9.0 in WebLogic Server Release Notes.