Working with the Standalone OC4J Application Server

A standalone OC4J application server is an alternative to the embedded OC4J test environment. Deploy applications to a standalone OC4J application server through a connection, as you would to deploy to Oracle Application Server or some other production application server.

JDeveloper uses the OC4J administration console command-line tool, admin.jar, to deploy to the standalone OC4J.

If you are deploying your applications to a standalone OC4J server, you'll need to start it, and pass it any options, from the command line by entering:

    java -jar oc4j.jar

When you deploy an application directly to standalone OC4J, the settings you specify in the deployment profile are used to update the OC4J server configuration files listed below. The WAR and EAR named in the deployment profile become the web module directory name and application directory name, respectively, in <oc4j_install> /j2ee/home/applications.

These OC4J configuration files are updated by deployments to standalone OC4J:

server.xml: An OC4J configuration file. This file names all the installed J2EE applications, including the application for the shared ADF UIX installable resources. It also defines any *-web-site.xml files that are used for the web modules. There is only one server.xml for a running OC4J instance. The locations of the UIX runtime dependent JAR files are also specified in this file.
http-web-site.xml: An OC4J configuration file. This file declares the port number that OC4J is using and maps URLs to the web modules, including the dedicated UIX installable resources web module. A URL directed to this port number is routed to the appropriate web site for the web module. Oracle recommends using a single *-web-site.xml file named http-web-site.xml, which contains many web module definitions. The location of http-web-site.xml is determined by server.xml, but it is typically in the same directory as server.xml. The file http-web-site.xml changes frequently as web modules are added or reconfigured.