Installation options
There are two types of installation, full and administration.
- Administration
- Includes the administration portlets and welcome pages. Select this option if you do not need all of the out-of-box features. You can add composite applications or common mail portlets later if needed. For example if you plan to design a custom portal environment and only need composite applications, select the Administration options. After you complete the installation and setup, run the appropriate task to install composite applications.
- Full
- Includes all of the out-of-box portlets and administration portlets. Select this option is you plan to use most of the out-of-box features.
If you will be developing portals and portlets, choose the Administration installation option and then run the following task immediately after the installation completes:
cd WP_PROFILE/ConfigEngine
./ConfigEngine.sh enable-develop-mode-startup-performanceThis task tunes WebSphere Portal for development and improves the start up performance. This task is for development only and is not recommended for production environments. This task modifies the following components:
- JVM
- The JVM will be switched to development mode and the initial heap size will be set to the maximum heap size to reduce the amount of avoid garbage collection during startup.
- Portlets
- Portlets and Web Applications will be activated on first access and not at the start up. Since some of the portlets and applications are required at start up, a white list will hold the applications still started at server start.
To revert back to a production server:
./ConfigEngine.sh disable-develop-mode-startup-performance
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Installation methods, options, and sources
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Adding features to an administration installation