Exporting applications

Why and when to perform this task

You can export an enterprise application to a location of your choice. Exporting applications enables you to back up your applications and preserve binding information for the applications. You might export your applications before updating installed applications or migrating to a later version of the WebSphere Application Server product.

Steps for this task

  1. Click Applications > Enterprise Applications in the administrative console navigation tree to access the Enterprise Applications page.
  2. Select the application and click Export.
  3. On the Export Application EAR Files page, click on the link to download the exported EAR file.
  4. Use the browser dialogue to specify a location at which to save the exported EAR file and click OK.

Results

The file containing binding information is exported to the specified node and directory, and has the name enterprise_application_name.ear.

Using the Export button to export applications does not export any manual changes that were made to applications in the installedApps directory. To export those changes, you must copy and move the application files manually.


Related concepts
Enterprise applications
Related reference
Enterprise application collection



Searchable topic ID:   trun_app_distr
Last updated: Jun 21, 2007 8:07:48 PM CDT    WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation, Version 5.0.2
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