DeployTool Online Help

DeployTool online help describes how to use the Application Deployment Tool to package applications and components into archive files for deployment on J2EE servers, create and edit deployment descriptors that set runtime enviroment and configuration values, and deploy the resulting J2EE applications on the server.

This section describes how to access online help, how to navigate through the help topics to find the information you want, and how to apply this information in the use of the DepolyTool.

If you already know how to use DeployTool online help you may skip to the next section where the DeployTool Primary Window is described.

Accessing Help

You can get help and information about the DeployTool in the following ways:

F1 key Press the F1 key to see information about the DeployTool window that has keyboard focus.
note It is very important to establish keyboard focus in a window before pressing the F1 key. In some cases you may have to highlight something in the window in order to establish focus.

Help menu Choose Help > Help to start the Help viewer with this page displayed. Use the navigators in the left pane to locate information.
Help buttons Click the Help button in a dialog box for information about how to use that dialog box

Navigation

The left pane of the help viewer contains two icons that can help you navigate through the help information:

image Table of contents. Topics are organized by task (where possible). Topics displayed in the right pane are highlighted in the table of contents.
image Full-text search. Type a natural language phrase in the Find field and press return. A ranked list of topics are returned with the following information:
  • The circle in the first column indicates the ranking of the matches for that topic. The more filled-in the circle is, the higher the ranking. There are five possible rankings (from highest to lowest): image
  • The number in the second column indicates the number of times the query was matched in the listed topic.
  • The title of the topic in which matches are found is listed as it appears in the table of contents.
A result of a search can be located in the task oriented table of contents by selecting it in the search result list and pressing the table of contents icon.



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