WaveMaker Visual AJAX Studio 4'0 Training

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WaveMaker Visual AJAX Studio 4.0 Training

• Exporting and Deploying Projects

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Exporting Projects

• Why Export Projects?
• To share projects with team members
• To send test cases to WaveMaker support
• To backup work

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How to Export a Project

• Under the Admin menu, select Export Project
• The zip file is created in ltprojectsDirectorygt/ltpr
  ojectNamegt/export/
• ltprojectNamegt.zip
• What is in the .zip file
• Includes project directory and everything
  contained in the directory and subdirectories
• If you export again it overwrites existing file
• If you are using this as a backup rename your
  zip files

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How to import a project

• Unzip the project zip file into the Projects
  directory
• You will see the project listed on the Welcome
  Screen ( you will have to refresh your browser)
• If you want to import a project that has the same
  name.
• Use the copy function to rename your existing
  project before unzipping the exported project.

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Generating a War File for Deployment

• When you are ready to deploy
• Generate a WAR file
• Contains .class, .js, .css, .xml, .gif,
  .jpg files
• Can be deployed to any Java container using
  standard deployment tools
• Platform independent

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Generating a .war file

• Under the Admin menu, select Generate WAR
• On the Database Connection Settings dialog box,
  enter JNDI name to connect to database
• Overrides the hard-coded settings
• For example, change the settings to connect to a
  production database
• Click OK

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Generating a .war file

• The WAR file is created in ltprojectsDirectorygt/ltpr
  ojectNamegt/dist/
• ltprojectNamegt.war

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• Questions?

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Exercise 12

• Copy a project
• Export a project
• Import a project
• Generate a WAR file of your project