How to build a .car file in Vignette?

andrew222 · #1 (**permalink**) 11-22-2009, 11:01 PM

Hello,

I am looking for a tutorial on how to build .car files in Vignette Application Portal (or Weblogic, ant etc...)

I have been looking around but have not found one. Any help is welcome.

Eranga · #2 (**permalink**) 11-23-2009, 03:47 AM

Can you explain a bit more, what you mean by .car files? I've never heard something like that, may be new thing to me.

andrew222 · #3 (**permalink**) 11-23-2009, 04:07 AM

A .car file is a 'configuration archive file'. It is used to package up a server's settings and configurations.

Vignette Portal application server uses them as well as WebShere Portal.

Fubarable · #4 (**permalink**) 11-23-2009, 04:36 AM

I'm not sure how this relates to programming with the Java programming language? Perhaps you can fill us in on this relationship.

andrew222 · #5 (**permalink**) 11-23-2009, 05:08 AM

As we know, the JSR 168 portlet specification is implemented by various vendors. This enables us to code our own Portlets. Portlets are similar to Servlets, but the API is more involved and has more details.

We can also run a portal application server on top of an application server like, Weblogic or WebShere. For the portal application server, we need a .car file which has all of the configurations/files for the site.

I would like to know how we can build a .car file for Vignette. There are tutorials about how to build one for other servers, like WebShere, but I am looking for a tutorial on how to build one with Vignette or Weblogic.

Please let me know if I have answered your question adequately.