Publishing portlets
You can publish all of the portlets in a portlet project to a WebSphere® Portal server either manually or automatically.
There are two methods for publishing portlets to a portal server:
- Export - This method creates a WAR file which you can manually install on a staging or production portal server. After you install the portlet, you will place the portlet on a page of the portal site using the Administrative pages of the remote portal server. See Exporting and installing portlet projects for instructions.
- Deploy - This method automatically installs portlets to a test, integration, or staging portal server. However, the portlets must be manually added to portal pages using the Administrative pages of the remote portal server. See Deploying portlet projects for instructions.
Note: If there is a firewall between your Rational® tools system and your WebSphere Portal server system, which blocks incoming requests, the remote deployment of portlets will fail, and you will need to use the export method. Also, if your WebSphere Portal server is on a Linux® system, the network settings must be configured so that the real IP address is returned, instead of the local host IP address of 127.0.0.1. This is a common problem with Java™ networking on Linux systems. See Network considerations more information.
- Defining servers for publishing portlets
- Deploying portlet projects
- Exporting and installing portlet projects
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