Generating a web archive (WAR) for installation

To deploy Information Console on an application server, you can use a WAR file of your Information Console application. Generating Web Archive is a feature of Actuate Information Console that is available to Administrator-level users. This feature creates a WAR file of your entire Actuate Information Console system. Information Console streams the WAR file to your browser. You select a file name and location to save the file. After you customize your system, you can create a WAR file to deploy the customized Information Console on other machines. The customizations can include any modifications of JavaScript, JavaServer Pages (JSP) and other web pages, and skins. Later chapters in this book provide detailed information about customizing JavaScript and JSPs.

If Actuate Information Console is deployed as a WAR file, you cannot further customize skins, add pages, or make any other changes that affect the Actuate Information Console file structure in the WAR file. Instead, install Actuate Information Console as a directory structure with the installation wizard on your product CD and make your changes to that installation. Then use Generate Web Archive to create a new WAR file and deploy that WAR file to your application server.

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