MACROMEDIA COLFUSION MX 7 - CONFIGURING AND ADMINISTERING COLDFUSION MX Manual page 81

Application packaging
The J2EE Archive feature lets you quickly create an archive file that a J2EE administrator can use
to deploy your ColdFusion MX application.
To add a new archive definition and create an archive file:
Open the ColdFusion MX Administrator.
1.
Specify a unique name for the archive file (no extension) in the Archive Name field.
2.
Click Add. The Add New Archive screen appears.
3.
Specify archive settings on the Add New Archive screen.
4.
Click Create. ColdFusion creates an EAR or WAR file in the specified application distribution
5.
directory.
The following table describes the settings you make when creating or modifying archive:
Setting
Archive Type
Context Root (EAR
only)
Serial Number
COM Support
Debugging
Include CFML Source
ColdFusion MX
Administrator
Data Sources
Description
Select EAR or WAR.
Each J2EE web application running in a server is rooted at a unique base
URL, called a context root (or context path). The J2EE application server
uses the initial portion of the URL (that is, the portion immediately following
http://hostname) to determine which web application services an incoming
request.
For example, if you are running ColdFusion MX with a context root of cfmx,
you display the Administrator using the URL
http://hostname/cfmx/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm. Most J2EE
application servers allow one application in each server instance to use a
forward slash (/) for the context root. The Remote Development Services
(RDS) web application is not required if you use a context root of /.
Specifies a ColdFusion MX Enterprise Edition serial number. If you do not
specify a valid ColdFusion MX Enterprise Edition serial number when
creating the archive file, it is deployed as an Enterprise Edition evaluation
version, which reverts to the Developer Edition after 30 days.
If your application doesn't use COM support, you can reduce the size of the
archive file by omitting the supporting files.
If the current ColdFusion MX server is running with debugging enabled,
you can disable debugging in the application contained in the archive file.
You can optionally deploy Java bytecode instead of CFML source code.
For more information, see
If your application does not require modification using the ColdFusion MX
Administrator, you can reduce archive size and reduce security issues by
omitting the Administrator files.
Specifies the data source definitions to include in the archive file.
"Sourceless distribution" on page
Packaging applications in J2EE archive files
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