The PAR needs to be updated to reference the official bundles

[tarelli]

The PAR needs to be updated to reference the official bundles

[tarelli]

Changed from PAR to PLAN to retain deployment order. In order to use the PLAN to deploy the Simulation Engine the bundles and their dependencies need to be copied to the provision repository. To run the PLAN from inside Eclipse is a bit tricky due to this bug: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=379765. As you can see in the last comment the workaround would be to add the stage folder as a repository, not worth the hassle I think. This plan file though is still perfectly valid while deploying the Simulation Engine outside the development environment.

=Using the Plan=

Because a plan is a list of artifacts, rather than a physical file that contains the artifacts, there are a few additional steps you must perform before you deploy it to VWS.

Copy the artifacts that make up the plan to the usr repository, which by default is the $SERVER_HOME/repository/usr directory, where $SERVER_HOME refers to the top-level installation directory of VWS. Note that you might have configured the server differently; in which case, copy the artifacts to your custom repository directory.

Restart VWS.

After the server has started, either use the Admin Console to deploy the plan, or manually deploy it by copying the plan’s XML file into the $SERVER_HOME/pickup directory.

This results in VWS deploying the plan with the same semantics as a PAR file.

To undeploy the plan, use the Admin Console, or simply delete it from the $SERVER_HOME/pickup directory.