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.
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. |
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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 |
The left pane of the help viewer contains two icons that can help you navigate through the help information:
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Table of contents. Topics are organized by task (where possible). Topics displayed in the right pane are highlighted in the table of contents. |
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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:
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