How Does it Work?

This is for a single-host deployment of the master Exalead CloudView instance only. This packager does not handle heavily customized Mashup UIs that require a WAR file generation.

This page discusses:

See Also
Generate the Application Package
Install the Application Package
Deploy Plugins or Resources Without CV apps Packager

Why Use it?

This is very useful when going from test to production mode for your applications such as:

  • vertical Exalead CloudView-based applications such as OneCall and OnePart

  • Search-based applications

What Does CV apps Packager Do?

  • Extracts the config + plugins (core, widgets, themes) + resources (resource manager) directories from the generated package.

  • Handles password re-encryption (because each password stored in the configuration is encrypted with a per-DATADIR/instance private key).

  • Auto-detects the host/port on the destination machine. Some configuration values of the application may be specific to the instance on which it was developed. The installation includes a variable replacement process that will overwrite these values with those of the instance on which the application is being deployed. The variables considered are the:

    • DATADIR – the data directory.

    • INSTALLDIR – the installation directory.

    • BASEPORT – the base port.

    • HOSTNAME – the host name.

    • install (in Deployment.xml) – the instance name.

      You can specify different variable values other than those of the Exalead CloudView instance.

  • Includes third-party files (optional include argument in the cvadmin tool).