When you are ready to test your application in a more realistic environment, you will want to deploy it into a runtime container that is similar to the one used in your production environment. Fuse IDE facilitates this by providing a simple menu option that builds your application, packages it, and copies it to the hot deployment folder of a configured container.
To deploy a project to an external container:
Select the top-level folder of the project you want to deploy.
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Important The project must be a Maven project and must be configured to package the results in a format that the destination container can deploy.
From the context menu, select |.
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Note If you have not configured any containers the only option available will be . Selecting this will open the Fuse IDE deploy folder preference panel where you can configure the hot deployment folder for the container into which your project will be deployed.
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Tip Clicking
will automatically deploy the project to the default
container's hot deploy folder.Check the Eclipse Console view to ensure your project built and was successfully copied to the deployment folder.
Check your container's log files to ensure that the routes were successfully deployed.
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