Naming the Deployment and the Applications

Naming a deployment makes it easy to redeploy or undeploy an application. This is especially true when your WebLogic Server domain contains multiple servers. If you don't specify a name for your deployment, the deployment tool names the application after the archive file. For example, if you name an enterprise application's archive file newapp.ear, the deployment is by default named newapp. In an exploded archive directory deployment, weblogic.Deployer uses the name of the top-level directory for the deployment as the deployment name.

The application names must adhere to certain naming conventions: you can use only alphanumeric characters, underscores, hyphens, and periods. Version strings are optional ...

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