Friday, August 7, 2009

Application policy and App un-deployment

You can deploy an ADF application with EM to a WebLogicServer Domain. Lets say the ADF app is secured. When the app is deployed, the security policies are also deployed with the app to the the target server. This happens automatically within JDeveloper. But when the app is deployed to a remote WLS this is exposed as configuration choice that the application deployer (Administrator by another name) will have to make.

This is controlled with the flags I blogged in my last post.

What about undeploying application security policies, when the corresponding application is undeployed. Turns out this does not happen automatically in 11gR1, and requires the application to be packaged(EAR file) with an "Weblogic-Application-Version" entry in its manifest file.

JDev automatically creates a MANIFEST file for the application when the application is packaged(deploy to an EAR). Here is an example manifest file.


Manifest-Version: 1.0
Created-By: 1.6.0_07 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
Weblogic-Application-Version: V1.0

When this app is un-deployed its application policies are automatically removed.

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