After downloading and extracting the necessary files, you can deploy the Discovery Framework as an enterprise application in WebSphere Application Server, and then install components, themes, and other plugins as modules in that enterprise application.
The following steps document the installation procedure by using the IBM Integrated Solutions Console for a WebSphere Application Server installed and maintained without the use of the Deployment Manager, and consisting of one cell with one node and one server. The instructions may need to be adjusted for clustered environments, environments maintained with the Deployment Manager, or for environments where administration is performed by using tools like wsadmin, rather than the Integrated Solutions Console.
The following steps assume that no other applications are deployed in the same application server. If there are other applications, ensure that no applications are bound to context root / (or that any such applications are stopped during the Discovery Framework deployment). After following these steps, you will be able to adjust the context root for the Discovery Framework application, to ensure it does not conflict with other applications.
To deploy the Discovery Framework standalone portal WAR on WebSphere Application Server version 6.1: