The Publish Wizard is a graphical tool to help you create, publish, and manage packages for the WebLogic Zero Administration Client (ZAC). The Publish Wizard comes with built-in instructions on each panel to walk you through the steps to publishing your application. For more information on what you can do with ZAC and how to configure your WebLogic Server for ZAC publishing, see Publishing with WebLogic ZAC in the WebLogic Server documentation, under Administrators Guides.
To create a new ZAC package, choose New... from the File menu.
This will open a wizard that will lead you through the process of defining a ZAC package, and saving the definition on your local system. After you've created the package, choose Publish... from the Package menu to publish the package to a running WebLogic Server.
To open a ZAC package definition (.zac) file in order to modify or publish it, choose Open... from the File menu.
To close a package file and remove it from the open files list, choose Close from the File menu.
To save a package with a different filename, choose Save As... from the File menu.
You can use Save As... to save different versions of a package. However, on the server, ZAC distinguishes packages only by the package name, not by the .zac filename. If you publish two packages with the same name to a server, the second will replace the first, even if they are stored with different filenames on your local system. To create a new package based on an existing package, save the package as a new file and then change the package name using the package wizard.
Choose Quit to exit the Publish Wizard and save your work.
To republish or make changes to an existing package, choose Edit in Wizard... from the Package menu, or double-click on the package in the Local Packages tree.
To publish a package to a WebLogic Server, choose Publish from the Package menu, or choose Publish to and select a server. Publish will be enabled if you only have one server in the list of servers, or if the package has been published to a server before. If the the package has not been published before and you have more than one server available, you must select a server from the Publish to submenu.
Once a package is published, users can download and use it. If you change the files in a package and publish it again, ZAC will automatically download the update the next time the user runs the ZAC application.
If you have made local changes to the files in a package which you wish to abandon, you can revert the package to the last published version by selecting Revert or Revert from in the Package menu. Revert will revert the package to the state at the last time it was published. Revert from will revert the local package files to the version published on a particular server.
To create a native bootstrapper -- a small OS-specific program that will install a pure-Java ZAC application from a publishing WebLogic Server -- choose Create bootstrap app... from the Package menu.
Delete in the Package menu is used to delete a local package or to remove a published package from a WebLogic Server.
To delete a local package, select the package in the Local Packages tree and choose Delete. The package definition will be deleted, but not the files and directories under the root directory of the package.
To permanently remove a published package from the WebLogic Server and make it unavailable for clients, browse to the package in the server tree and choose Delete from the Package menu. Although the package will no longer be available to users, the files associated with the published package are not removed from your local system.
To import a published package from another publishing WebLogic Server, browse to the package in the server package tree and choose Import... from the Package menu. Importing a package copies all the published files to the local WebLogic host's system. After importing, you can modify and republish a package that has been published elsewhere.
To test downloading and running a published package locally, browse to the package in the server package tree and choose Test run... from the Package menu. Use the verbose options to verify that a package has been published successfully or to diagnose and debug publishing errors.
Choose Quit to exit the Publish Wizard and save your work.
To add a server to the list of publishing WebLogic Servers available to ZAC Publish Wizard, choose Add... from the Server menu.
To remove a server from the list of publishing WebLogic Servers available to ZAC Publish Wizard, choose Remove from the Server menu.
To reload the list of packages published on a server, choose Refresh from the Server menu.
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