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Installing an EAR file or WAR files

If your computer is already running a J2EE application server, the installation wizard creates an EAR file or WAR files, which you deploy using application-server-specific tools.

The ColdFusion MX J2EE configuration must run out of an expanded directory structure. Different J2EE application servers have different functionality with regard to deployment and an expanded directory structure, as follows:

Deploy compressed archive to working directory On some J2EE application servers (such as IBM WebSphere), the deployment process expands the EAR/WAR file into a working directory and from that point forward, the expanded directory is considered to be the application. For these application servers, you deploy the compressed EAR/WAR file and work in the resulting directory structure.
Deploy expanded archive as working directory On other application servers (such as JRun 4 and BEA WebLogic), the deployment process expands the EAR/WAR file into a temporary directory and (conceptually), the compressed EAR/WAR file is still considered to be the application. For these application servers, you must expand the EAR/WAR file manually and then deploy the expanded directory structure, which becomes your working directory.

The following discussions provide installation procedures for Windows and UNIX. For more about deployment and configuration, see ColdFusion MX J2EE deployment and configuration.


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