You can deploy the Discovery Framework as a standalone application
on Tomcat 5.5.
These instructions assume that you have obtained the
apache-tomcat-5.5.x.zip or
tar.gz file from the
Apache Foundation but that you have not yet installed it.
The rest of these instructions will refer to the installation directory as
apache-tomcat-5.5.x, leaving off the minor version
number. Before following the steps here, consult the
Liferay Portal Administrator's Guide, which contains portal
deployment instructions and examples for Tomcat 5.5.
Note: The examples in this section are based on a Windows server Tomcat
deployment. If you are installing on Linux, the steps will be similar, though
you will need to substitute Linux binaries and paths. Where there is a
significant difference, this is called out.
Note: Among the data sources in your Discovery Framework application, you
must always include a default data source. This data source is automatically
assigned to all data-source-backed components when they are initially added to
a page. For details, see the topic "Specifying a default data source," located
in the chapter "About data source configuration."