Installshield for Multiple Application Servers

[ivaturi]

How Can I make installable package for different Application servers. Like my application should be packages such a way that it can installed on WAS 5.1 (Websphere Application Server) Jboss. Tomcat.....

Can somebody tell me any options available in 10.5 Installshield? Or In any of the versions / Products are supporting this>


Thanks in advance for your time and help
Srinvas Ivaturi.

[sithlord]

I don't think there's anything InstallShield can do for you. The deployment is something done by packaging your EAR (enterprise archive). That's what the deployment descriptors are for. Once archived, those EAR files are just normal files, at least as far the installation process is concerned. All you have to do is simply copy the EAR files to the required locations in WebLogic/JBoss/WebSphere (for JBoss you copy your EAR files to the deploy folder). JBoss is smart enough to perform hot deployment. I am not so sure about the other servers.

Tomcat is a different beast. This container server is where you want to get your WAR files deployed to. Same logic applies here. You just copy your WAR files to the webapps folder and you're done.
Cheers,
--Will