Deploy applications and adapters to MobileFirst Server
We can deploy customer-specific content (apps and adapters) only after the project WAR file is deployed and the server is started.
Customer-specific content includes applications that must be served by IBM MobileFirst Platform Server and their underlying integration adapters. We can create apps and adapters by building them in IBM MobileFirst Platform Studio, or with the Ant tasks provided with MPF to build them. The result of the build action is files with extension .wlapp and .adapter respectively.
There are two ways to deploy applications and adapters to IBM MobileFirst Platform operations console:
- Use Ant tasks provided with MPF, and described in Ant tasks for building and deploying applications and adapters and Deploy a project WAR file and configure the application server with Ant tasks.
- Use operations console to manually deploy apps and adapters.
We can deploy customer-specific content (apps and adapters) only after the project and MobileFirst administration WAR files are deployed and the server is started.
If only one project is deployed on the server, you see the Catalog page of operations console and we can start performing administration tasks. If several projects are deployed on the server, you see a list of projects in operations console. Select a project to navigate to the Catalog page of the project.
Only the most recently accessed application is displayed on the MobileFirst Development Server at run time.
Figure 1. Catalog page of operations console
- To deploy an adapter, click Choose File.
Then, navigate to the .adapter file and select it.
- Click Submit. A message is displayed indicating whether the deployment action succeeded or failed. The details of the deployed adapter are added to the catalog.
- Click Show details to view connectivity details for the adapter and the list of procedures.
- Repeat steps 1 to 3 for each adapter to deploy.
- To deploy an application, in the catalog page, click Choose File. Then, navigate to the .wlapp file and select it.
- Click Submit. A
message is displayed indicating whether the deployment action succeeded
or failed. The details of the deployed application are added to the catalog.
- Repeat steps 5 and 6 for each app to deploy.
Parent topic: Deploy MobileFirst applications to test and production environments