Deployment facility (WAR)

isCOBOL IDE allows you to build a WAR library of your project in order to facilitate the deployment.

This is useful to deploy web applications made using WD2 (isCOBOL Projects) or EIS (isCOBOL EIS Projects).

1.	Right click on project name in the isCOBOL Explorer area.

2.	Choose Export from the pop-up menu.

3.	Choose isCOBOL / Project As WAR File from the tree.

4.	Click Next.

5.	Select the desired project from the list.

6.	Click Next.

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In the next page you’re asked to choose which programs and which external libraries from the project Classpath should be included in the WAR. Among external libraries custom libraries in the project Classpath are automatically checked, but only the essential runtime items are checked; if you need more runtime libraries for specific features (e.g. the itext library to print PDFs), then you have to check them before proceeding.

If the project is a EIS Project, then you’re also asked to choose which HTML, JS and CSS files should be included in the WAR.

8.	Click Next

 

If you’re exporting a WD2 Project, then the following additional screen may appear:

 

 

You have to tell which is the main program of your web application and you can make the IDE generate a HTML form that the user can use in order to set chaining parameters received by the main program. Click Next when you have provided the necessary information.

You can avoid this screen to appear by creating a folder named “html” in your project and placing a index.html file into it. In this case the IDE will use the content of your “html” folder instead of creating a default index page.

9.	Choose the name and path of the WAR and click Finish.

 

The resulting WAR file is ready to be deployed in Tomcat or another servlet container.