Deployment

For a deployment inside Eclipse with Rapid Application Development, you proceed with the following operations:

• Deploy the Dynamic Web Project to the Server - add your dynamic Web project to the server.
• Start Tomcat - start the server.
• Deploying the Process Model - deploy the process model to the audit trail database.

The section Exporting the Web Project as WAR explains how to export your dynamic Web project as WAR file.

Deploy the Dynamic Web Project to the Server

To add your dynamic Web project to the server proceed as follows:

• Right-click the Tomcat server entry in the Servers View.
• Select Add and Remove Projects....

• In the left pane select your project.

• Click Add to move it to Configured Projects (this only needs to be done once whenever the active project changes).

• Select Finish.

Start Tomcat

Setting the Default Web Browser

The usage of Stardust Portal via the internal Web browser is currently not supported. Set the browser to be used to your default Web browser:

1. Select Window > Preferences in the main menu
2. Select General > Web Browser
3. Enable Use external Web browser
4. Click Apply

Figure: Set to external Web Browser.

Starting the Server

To start the Tomcat server:

• Right-click the Tomcat server entry in the Servers View.
• Click Start.

Figure: Start Tomcat

The Tomcat Status should now be Started.

Location of your published Web Application

You might like to browse to the folder where your Web application is published for troubleshooting and seeing what Eclipse actually published to the server. The Stardust dynamic Web project is not published to the server's webapps folder. Eclipse leaves your Tomcat installation unmodified. The Web application is published to a temporary folder. If you do not change the configuration, it is created inside your workspace under:

<your workspace>/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/tmp0/wtpwebapps

Deploying the Process Model

Process execution requires prior deployment of the process model to the audit trail database. In Rapid Application Development environment you don't have to configure the connection parameters in the carnot.properties. Also the Stardust environment settings, like CARNOT_HOME and CARNOT_WORK, are set automatically.

Start Tomcat as described in the previous section. Now your process model can be deployed:

• Right-click the model in the Package Explorer view.
• Select Export....
• Choose Process Manager Wizards > Deploy Process Model.
• Click Next.
• In the Deploy wizard check that your process model is selected.
• Select Finish.

Figure: Deploying a Model to the Stardust Runtime Environment

• Press OK

The model deployment dialog prompts. Choose, if you like to create a new model version or to overwrite the last version of the model. Please refer to the chapter Working with Multiple Versions of the Operation Guide for details on multiple model versions in the runtime environment.

Figure: Deployment of Model Version

• Press OK.

If the following confirmation dialog appears, the deployment of the process model was successful and it is ready for use:

Figure: Deployment Confirmation

After a successful deployment of the process model in the dynamic Web project:

• Users can be added and assigned to roles of the deployed process model after logging in with an administrator account and
• processes can be executed

in the Stardust Portal.

Exporting the Web Project as WAR

After completing the development of a dynamic Web project, you have the option to export it as a WAR file for further usage in your production environment.

To export your dynamic Web project:

• Right-click the Web project.
• Select Export...
• Choose Web > WAR file.
• Click Next.

Figure: Export Web Project as WAR File

• In the WAR Export dialog select the Browse button to browse to the destination where to export your WAR file:

Figure: Browse to Export Destination

• Enable or disable the option to export the source files of your project.
• Choose if an existing file with the chosen name should be overwritten or not.
• Select Finish.