Deployment Tool Online Help

The Deployment Tool online help describes how to use the tool to assemble applications and components into archive files for deployment on J2EE servers, create and edit deployment descriptors that set runtime environment 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 Deployment Tool.

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

Accessing Help

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

F1 key Press the F1 key to see information about the Deployment Tool 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:

table of contents Table of contents. Topics are organized by task (where possible). Topics displayed in the right pane are highlighted in the table of contents.
search 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): ranks
  • 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.

Accessibility Features

Sun Java System Application Server, Platform Edition 8, product documentation is provided in accessible formats that are readable by assistive technologies. The product provides many accessibility features that enable you to read about and use the product in the manner that is most comfortable and convenient to you. These features include:

NOTE: The Solaris operating system allows you to set window behavior using the Window Style Manager. When using mnemonics, the window behavior should be set to Click In Window To Make Active. If this option is not set, in some cases, a mnemonic can appear to fail.

See also

Mnemonics

Keyboard Shortcuts

Command Line Invocation



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