For up-to-date product documentation, see the IBM MobileFirst Foundation Developer Center.
Deploy or update an adapter to a production environment
Review this check-list before you deploy or update an adapter to a production environment.
Adapters contain the server-side code of applications that are deployed on and serviced by IBM MobileFirst™ Platform Foundation. Read this checklist before you deploy or update an adapter to a production environment. For more information about creating and building adapters, see Develop the server side of a MobileFirst application.
Adapters can be uploaded, updated, or configured while a production server is running. After all the nodes of a server farm receive the new adapter or configuration, all incoming requests to the adapter use the new settings.
Procedure
- If you update an existing adapter in a production environment, make sure that this adapter contains no incompatibilities or regressions with existing applications that are registered to a server.
The same adapter can be used by multiple applications, or by multiple versions of the same application, that are already published to the store and used. Before you update the adapter in a production environment, run non-regression tests in a test server against the new adapter and copies of the apps that are built for the test server.
- For Java™ adapters, if the adapter uses Java URLConnection with HTTPS, make sure that the back-end certificates are in the MobileFirst Server keystore.
For more information, see Using SSL in HTTP adapters. For more information about using self-signed certificates, see Configure SSL between MobileFirst adapters and back-end servers by using self-signed certificates.
Note: If the application server is WebSphere® Application Server Liberty, then the certificates must also be in the Liberty truststore.
- Verify the server-side configuration of the adapter.
For more information about adapter configuration, see Configure adapters.
- Use the mfpadm deploy adapter and mfpadm adapter set user-config commands to upload the adapter and its configuration.
For more information about mfpadm for adapters, see Commands for adapters.
Parent topic: Deploy MobileFirst applications to test and production environments