Is it possible to deploy processes and forms developed using the Designer to servers other than the PC that the Designer is deployed on?

I tried setting the deployment URLs in Eclipse to point to a remote server, but when I pressed the "Deploy" button, the deployment failed. The error on the server was that the SAR did not exist on the local file system. Now, I could probably fake out the server by pushing the SAR over to the server and then pressing "Deploy" again, but, unfortunately, this only works if both the Designer PC and the Server PC are running the same OS - in my case they are not (Designer is Windows; Server is Linux).

I'm also not too clear on what happens when a form is "deployed" - no .xform files get moved from the Designer directory tree over to the Server directory tree ... again, is there any way to deploy forms to a remote server?

Thanks in advance!
Paul.

Forms deployment is decoupled from process deployment. Clicking the "Deploy the Diagram to the Server" tool in Designer will only attempt to deploy the process, not the forms.
To deploy a form, you have to right-click on the *.xform file in the Process Explorer and select 'Deploy'. Currently the Community Edition does not support remote deployment so this has not been tested if you try to deploy it on a different server.
An alternative is to use the command line deployment tool.
See Intalio|BPMS Workfldow Deployment Service Guide.

... yep, I just got remote forms deployment working using the wds-cli tool :) ... that just leaves the issue of deploying the process - would it be possible to use the PXE tools to deploy the SAR file created by the Designer? (or is there too much of a delta between "raw" PXE and the PXE embedded within Intalio|BPMS for this to work?) ...

Thanks again,
Paul.

There's no difference between the two, this should work as well. You only need the SAR file to deploy on PXE or Intalio|BPMS Server Community Edition.

For future reference (possibly my own!):

To deploy processes and forms to an Intalio|BPMS Community Edition server that is remote to the Designer that was used to create the processes and forms:

Processes (untested):
- Download and install the latest PXE distribution (if you don't have it already) - note that you will not be deploying processes to the PXE distribution; you will merely use the PXE deployment tooling to deploy processes to the Intalio|BPMS Community Edition distribution
- Copy the SAR file to a web server
- Execute pxe-deploy -sarurl <url-to-sar-file> -jmxurl service:jmx:rmi://<remote-server>:2099/jndi/rmi://<remote-server>:2099/jmxrmi

Processes (tested):
- Download and install the latest PXE distribution to the remote server (if it isn't there already) - note that you will not be deploying processes to the PXE distribution; you will merely use the PXE deployment tooling to deploy processes to the Intalio|BPMS Community Edition distribution
- Copy the SAR file to the remote server
- Execute pxe-deploy -sar <path-to-sar-file> -jmxurl service:jmx:rmi://localhost:2099/jndi/rmi://localhost:2099/jmxrmi

Forms:
- Download and install the wds-cli tool
- Execute wds-cli -w http://<remote-server>:8080/wds/ store-activity <relative-xform-url> <full-path-to-xform-file>
- Execute wds-cli -w http://<remote-server>:8080/wds/ store <relative-xform.xsd-url> <full-path-to-xform.xsd-file>

Create a PIPA:
- Execute wds-cli -w http://<remote-server>:8080/wds/ -d <deployment-descriptor> create-pipa

Post edited by: paulhanke, at: 2006/07/26 17:15

Post edited by: paulhanke, at: 2006/07/26 17:19

Post edited by: paulhanke, at: 2006/09/15 08:00

Hi,

I downloaded the PXE distribution and integrated with J2ee environment (Jboss server). Still I am using intalio|bpms designer (eclipse based) to design diagrams and to generate .SAR file. Now I need to deploy this process (diagram) on to PXE server (which is nothing but jboss running on local machine).. how to achieve this..?

I tried using the following command from windows command prompt,

pxe-deploy -sar <path-to-sar-file> -jmxurl service:jmx:rmi://localhost:2099/jndi/rmi://localhost:2099/ jmxrmi

But I am getting deployment error like, No domain found in JMX.

what are the exact steps need to follow for this..?

I greatly appreciate help on this part..

Thanks in advance..

Nagaraj