Requirements 

• Tomcat 8.5.5 and 8.5.6 were tested, and are the recommended versions to run. There are known issues with Tomcat 7.
• 4GB of RAM
• 1 CPU
• JDK - refer to http://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html for selecting. Tomcat 8.5.5 was tested with JDK  1.7.0_67, 1.8._60 and 1.8,_101.

Tomcat Setup

If FlexDeploy is being installed for first time, setup Tomcat server and a Data Source as explained in following steps. If only updating new war file, skip to Installation for Tomcat. 

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• • Extract zip files in flat structure using unzip -j (works on Windows and UNIX)
    • cd <tomcat lib folder>
    • unzip -j <path to temp folder>/adf-essentials.zip
    • unzip -j <path to temp folder>/adf-essentials-client-ear.zip
  • You should see a large number of jars now in the tomcat/lib folder.
• Download the following jars and place them in tomcat/lib as well please.
  • jta-1.1.jar
  • jackson-core-lgpl-1.9.13
  • jersey-bundle-1.18.jar
  • asm-3.3.1.jar
• FDLogFormatter.jar is found in the zip file with the FlexDeploy war. Please put in the tomcat/lib folder as well.

Configure Data Source

• Open context.xml for editing. It is located in the conf folder where you extracted Tomcat.
• Add the following text, changing <password for fd_admin> to the actual password.

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