Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Administration Handbook

Summary

This chapter provided you an introduction to deploying applications and modules in a WebLogic Server environment. You learned about the exploded directory and archive file mode of deployment. You learned the role played by deployment descriptors and annotations and the purpose of a deployment plan. The chapter showed how to deploy applications with various tools such as the Administration Console, the weblogic.Deployer and wldeploy utilities and WLST. The chapter also described how to undeploy and redeploy applications and how to start an application. Developers can benefit from the auto deployment and the FastSwap features, which are designed to shorten application development cycles. You also learned how to use the Administration Console ...