Deploying the application

Once you've selected the map and page elements for your Web application, the final panel of the wizard appears and displays a summary and overview of the application you're about to create.

If you are satisfied with the application, click 'Save Web App' to create it, otherwise you can click Previous to return to other panels of the wizard and adjust the application's properties. At this point, the application has been created but not deployed. To deploy the application, select the checkbox next to the application in the Applications page of Manager and click the 'Deploy' button.

After you create and deploy the application, it is available for viewing, editing, and renaming in the Applications tab of Manager. When you edit an existing application, you will see a list of items on the left of the screen that correspond to the panels of the original wizard. There's no need to navigate through all of the panels; you can just use the ones that are necessary, then click 'Save Web App' on the Summary page to complete the edits.

For advanced customizations, you can edit applications that you create in Manager within an IDE (such as Eclipse). Note that once you've edited the application in an IDE, these edits may be lost if you choose to edit the application again with Manager.

A note about migrating Web applications to different machines

ESRI fonts are used to display North arrows, input / output parameters for Geoprocessing, etc in the Web Mapping Application. These ESRI fonts need to be available on the machine that is serving the web mapping application. If you deploy your Web Mapping Application on a Web server machine that does not have ArcGIS Server installed you will need to install the ESRI Fonts in your web server machine.

If your Web Mapping Application uses multiple resources from different projections, the ADF will project the layers to the coordinate system of the bottom-most layer. For some projection types the transformation information to support this is located in the folder <ARCGIS Directory Installation>/pedata. If you deploy your Web Mapping Application on a Web server machine that does not have ArcGIS Server installed you will need to edit the file PeHome.properties under WEB-INF/classes of your Web Mapping Application. Edit the value for the property PEDATAHOME to the location of pedata folder.

Further customization of your application

After you have deployed your Web Mapping Application, you can continue to use Manager to make changes to your application. After making changes, you must redeploy the application for the changes to take effect.

You can also open a Web Mapping Application in an IDE and make changes to the application beyond what is available in Manager. If you have not already done so, you should install the Web ADF Developer Help. This is a separate install from the rest of the Web ADF.