Managing Portal Environment

Setting up portal Environment
  Dev. Environment
  Staging Environment
  Production Environment


Portal Content
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pages, portlets, documents

solution release
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solution release is the site developed by you, consisting of
  portal configuration +
  portal artifacts +
  extension artifacts

solution release types: 1) Initial - First Solution Release
                                2) Differential - Subsequent solution releases


Movement of Solution Release elements
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The First group of components are the parts of the portal site that reside in the portal file system.
along with the property files, the deliverables from s/w developers that can include JAVA classes, war files or other j2ee resource artifacts such as ejbs are also included in this category.

this group is comprised of several different asset types, but because they are not stored with in the portal database, XMLAccess, ReleaseBuilder and Management Tools are not able to transfer them over to the new portal system.

Property Files:
portal property files can be modified via sevral methoids.
1)manual update
2)configengine helper files
3)was admin console [ portal configuration servioce property files]

Themes &Skins
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deploying theme a new theme and skin

updating cuctom theme and skin

deploying theme styles & theme policy

move theme style/policy from one server to another

exporting the theme style from Dev. machine to Staging

what is portlet code?

portlet deployment and move

moving shared libraries

portlet filters

j2ee artifacts
 updating a predeploed enterprise  application
 RegisteredpreDeployedEAR.war