Requirements 

• Tomcat 8.5.5 was tested, so it is the recommended version 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 1.8.60.

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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 on the support site, and should also be put in the tomcat/lib folder.

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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• Setup Logger Configurations.
  • ???Edit logging.properties in the Tomcat/conf folder.

WAR Installation

Put the flexdeploy.war file into the webapps folder.

Start Tomcat

path to bin /startup.sh on UNIX or double click startup.bat in the tomcat\bin folder if you are on Windows.