Our WebHelp needs to be 'deployed' to an application server
(JBoss, WebSphere, etc) and I'm told I nee dto wrap it in a .war
file. All new to me. Has anyone done this or can someone point me
to some background and instructions?
Your developers should be able to tell you what software is
available to you to do that in your company. Otherwise give them a
zip file and let them do it.
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They have it all wrong:
they need to "wrap it in a .war file" (that's a .zip file
for UNIX). Our release engineering folks do that as part of the
application build. When the users open the application the first
time, the app "unwraps" the .war file for them.
"They" are the ones who should be doing the heavy lifting on
this one!
We deploy our app via a WAR file and it includes all of the
Help files. I designed the Help to reside in a separate
subdirectory of the application and the app calls-to-help point to
that relative location. Only a single XML file gets updated during
deployment.
I ZIP the generated Help project and give it to the build
manager. He extracts/inserts into his build environment, builds the
app and deploys as a WAR file.
Gen your Webhelp to a local drive, ZIP it up and give it to
the build team.
The developer explodes the zip file into the package that
becomes the war file. So in my case, when I update help files, the
application developer prefers to get the whole new package zipped
up (with a time/date line embedded in the launch topic).
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