After downloading the Discovery Framework software, you can
install it on your development server.
There are five options for installing this release of the Discovery
Framework:
- Discovery Framework with the
Windows Tomcat bundle. This is based on Tomcat 6 and Java 1.6.
- Discovery Framework with the
Linux Tomcat bundle. This is based on Tomcat 6 and Java 1.6.
- Discovery Framework as a
standalone application on Tomcat 5.5 application server.
- Discovery Framework as a
standalone application on WebSphere Application Server 6.1.
- Discovery Framework as a
standalone application on WebSphere Application Server 7.
Note: The following steps will deploy the portal using the default
embedded Hypersonic database, which is not intended for production use. In
production, you must deploy using an alternate database. More information about
this process can be found in chapter 6 of this guide. Briefly, deploying an
alternate database can be accomplished by modifying the
portal-ext.properties file to specify the
appropriate JDBC connection information for the desired database.
Alternatively, you can follow the instructions in the
Liferay Portal Administrator's Guide to set up a JDBC
provider and data source in your application server, and configure the
portal-ext.properties to look up the data source
by JNDI name.
Important: The Discovery Framework requires the Endeca Theme
in order to start up. Even if you do not intend to use the Endeca Theme in
production, you should not uninstall the Endeca Theme
(endeca-theme-<version>.war) from the
endeca-portal\deploy directory.