For IBM® Sterling
Warehouse Management System ,
installation and deployment is a process of installing software, setting
configurations or creating customizations, building the EAR file,
and deploying to the desired environment: development, staging, or
production.
The diagram below is a high-level illustration of the installation
and deployment process that includes decision points where you can
alter the sequence to suit your needs.
- Plan: Sterling Warehouse Management System is
a suite of applications and solutions. Planning the installation involves
considering system requirements, your final deployment and security
architecture, your performance needs, and any requirements for high
availability.
- Obtain software and install prerequisites: You download Sterling Warehouse Management System software
from IBM Passport Advantage (or load it from your media package).
Sterling Warehouse Management System requires
a tiered environment, using a combination of application server, Web
server, and database server software. The tiered structure is a required
setup for the development, staging, and production environments. After
the environment is set up, you install the software into an installation
folder.
- Install Sterling Warehouse Management System : Installing
the base software (Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation) is
a required first step. Afterwards, install and configure other components
as provided by your license agreement.
- Load default factory setups, language packs, and localized
factory setups: When you install the base software, you decide
whether to create database tables and whether to load factory setups
(default configuration data). If you are running a new installation,
choosing these options is the suggested procedure. Alternatively,
the DBA at your organization can create database tables and load factory
setups manually, as long as this process is completed before proceeding
to later steps.
- Load language packs and localized factory setups: If you
are deploying your application in English, skip this step. If you
are deploying your application in other languages, you must install
the language pack you want and then load the factory setups that have
been localized for that language.
- Install the Reference Implementation: For Sterling Warehouse Management System,
the Reference Implementation is a sample application that you can
use. If you did not choose to install it when you installed the base
software, you can install it after the factory setups, language packs,
and localized factory setups are installed.
- Create or rebuild the resource.jar: If you are using Sterling Warehouse Management System,
you must rebuild the resource.jar before building
and deploying the EAR file on the server.
- Build and deploy the EAR file: When all of the above steps
are complete, you build and deploy the EAR file on the server for
the desired environment. This process deploys Sterling Warehouse Management System on
the server in either your development, staging, or production environment.
- Build client applications: If you are using Sterling Warehouse Management System,
you build and deploy the client application as the final deployment
step.
