High-level overview of WebSphere Application Server 7 deployment

This topic provides an overview of the steps you need to take to deploy the Discovery Framework on WAS 7.

Details on each of these steps appear in the topics that follow.

To deploy the Discovery Framework on WAS:

  1. Deploy dependency .jar files. The exact list of required files and destination directories appears below.
  2. Start (or restart) the WAS server.
  3. Install the Discovery Framework .war file as an enterprise application.
  4. Edit and deploy portal-ext.properties.
  5. Create the endeca-data-sources/*.json data source configuration files. For more information, see the section "About data sources."
  6. Install the Endeca theme, portlet components, and other framework .war files.
  7. Start the Discovery Framework enterprise application, entering the license key upon first use.
  8. Optionally, repeat step 6 for any additional plugins you want to add.