Upgrade Guide

Applying Service Packs

This topic provides instructions for applying service pack changes to your portal applications after you install the service packs. For instructions on installing service packs, see Installing Service Packs and Rolling Patches in the WebLogic Platform documentation at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13196_01/platform/docs81/install/update.html.

Updating Portal Libraries with New Service Packs

After you install a new service pack that includes portal library updates, you must update the libraries in the applications you have developed. Updating overwrites the existing libraries. To update your application libraries:

Shut down your server if it is running. In WebLogic Workshop, choose Tools > WebLogic Server > Stop WebLogic Server.

In WebLogic Workshop, open the portal application you want to update.

In the Application window, right-click the application directory and choose Install > Update Portal Libraries.

If the service pack includes Commerce or Pipeline updates, right-click the application directory and choose Install > Commerce Services and Install > Pipeline Services.

After the portal application libraries are updated, a dialog box appears that lets you select Web projects in the application to update. Select the Web projects whose libraries you want to update, and click OK.

If you choose not to update a Web project's libraries with the dialog box, you can update the Web project later by right-clicking the Web project directory in the Application window and choosing Install > Update Portal Libraries.

If the service pack includes updates to Commerce or Webflow JSP tag libraries, right-click the Web project directory in the Application window and choose Install > Commerce Taglibs and Install > Webflow Taglibs.

Note: If you have hidden any Web applications in the WebLogic Workshop interface, those Web applications will not be updated. Either unhide them and perform the update as described in the previous steps, or manually replace the updated libraries in the hidden Web application(s).

If you have the WebLogic Administration Portal (<portalApplication>/Modules/adminPortal.war) hidden, use your operating system file manager to copy the new adminPortal.war from the <WEBLOGIC_HOME>/portal/lib directory into the root directory of the your portal applications in which this file is hidden.

Restart your server.

To apply the service pack library updates to portal applications already deployed in production, redeploy those applications after you have updated them in WebLogic Workshop. See Deploying Portal Applications for deployment instructions.