Common deployment framework

The common deployment framework enables you to implement plug-ins that add steps to default Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application management operations such as install, uninstall, edit and update.

Using the framework, you can implement management operations on specific types of deployable contents. For example, the deployable contents might include EAR, WAR, JAR or other J2EE modules and the management operations might include install and uninstall. Each operation is divided into a number of steps. For example, the install operation has steps for EJBDeploy and JavaServer Pages (JSP) compilation, among others. Using the common deployment framework, you can add steps to the default logic for J2EE operations.

Version 6.1 supports framework plug-ins that extend deployment of EAR files. An EAR file has operations such as createEarWrapper, installApplication, uninstallApplication and editApplication. Using a framework plug-in, you can add steps to default install operations that support, for example, creating additional configuration artifacts in a configuration session, modifying an input EAR file using code generation, or additional validating of input parameters.

To extend application management operations using the framework, a plug-in must do the following:

For an example of these steps, refer to Extending application management operations through programming.




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