The Application Client Wizard helps you create an application client, provide a JAR, and generate a from the information that you enter in the Wizard. It bundles the application client into the JAR file, and prepares it for deployment on the server according to the settings in the generated deployment descriptor.
In addition to the creation of new application clients and JAR files, the Application Client Wizard offers additional screens for providing settings and configuration parameters for the created elements. These settings and parameters may also be conveniently provided by selecting a created file or component in the file view of the Deploytool and selecting the appropriate tab to access similar functionality in a tabbed pane.
Already created JARs and Application Clients may be added to an application by using the Application Client JAR icon in the second group of icons on the tool bar of the primary screen of the DeployTool. Updating and deployment of the application are accomplished using the third set of icons on the tool bar. Finally, the correctness of the components and files of the application may be checked before deployment by the verifier and clone inspector icons on the tool bar.
At any point in the process the user may do any of the following:
The later screens of the Wizard offer the user the options to
After Finish has been clicked, the deployment descriptor may be reviewed at any time by selecting the application client or JAR file from the deploytool tree and choosing Descriptor View from the Tools menu.