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This page provides instructions for upgrading a FlexDeploy installation from version 5.4 and later. You will continue to run Tomcat 9.0.34.

Make sure you have downloaded new version of FlexDeploy and unzipped it, so it can be accessed during upgrade process.

Upgrade Instructions

Step 1. Stop the Tomcat server. Use shutdown.sh on Linux and shutdown.bat on Windows.

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Step 5. Review <FlexDeploy Home>/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/conf/context.xml changes as per FlexDeploy Release Notes - See Platform Recommendations. Alternatively, you can compare your context.xml file with FlexDeploy Tomcat distribution (/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/conf/context.xml) and make changes as necessary.

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If using Oracle database, it is recommended to use UCP connection pool (see details below). If you are already setup for UCP or using other database go to next step.

  • Download the latest Oracle JDBC driver from https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/appdev/jdbc-ucp-19c-downloads.html. For example, ojdbc8-full.tar.gz.
  • Remove ojdbc jar files like ojdbc*.jar or ojdbc*dms.jar from <FlexDeploy Home>/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/lib.
  • Copy ojdbc8.jar, ons.jar anducp.jar from download archive to <FlexDeploy Home>/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/lib.
  • Update <FlexDeploy Home>/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/conf/context.xml as shown below. Make sure to take backup of existing context.xml file.

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