Starting the deployment wizard

The central artifact being exported to the Portal perspective is the collaboration object. You use the context menu of one or more collaboration objects in System Manager to enable the deployment wizard. The wizard collects information about the collaboration objects, such as the external collaboration ports being exposed to Portlets. All business object definitions supported by the external collaboration ports and their child business object definitions are also deployed to the Portal perspective.

The wizard generates one JAR file that contains two other files. These two files must be loaded in the Portal development project at the following locations:

The wizard provides two export options for these files:

Exporting to a Portal development project in the same workbench

In this scenario, the Deployment Wizard copies the two files directly to the project's \lib\ folder. This process automatically exposes the Web business objects in the JAR file to the Page Designer. The Deployment Wizard merges the currently exported WebBOs with those in an WBIWebBOs.jar file that might already exist in the project's \lib\folder.

Exporting to an external folder

When exporting to an external folder, you specify an external JAR file that will contain the wizard's output. When importing to a Portal Development Workbench, a Portal developer must import the file into the \lib\folder of the project.

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