Configure ESDEMO

Walks you through the process of creating a deployment folder and configuring ESDEMO to use it.

Restriction: This topic applies only when the Enterprise Server feature is enabled.

Restriction: This topic applies to Windows environments (local development) only.

To successfully deploy and run or debug a Java service interface, you must have an enterprise server instance started in Enterprise Server. For these tutorials, we provide the ESDEMO enterprise server instance. If you do not have Administrator privileges to the Visual COBOL installation folder, or if you have not started Visual COBOL as an administrator, before completing the remainder of these tutorials you must create a deployment folder and then configure ESDEMO to enable successful deployment.

Start Enterprise Server Administration

To start the Server Explorer, click Window > Show View > Other > Micro Focus > Server Explorer; then click OK.
From Server Explorer in Visual COBOL, right-click Local [localhost:86]; then click Open Administration Page.
The Enterprise Server Administration Home page starts in an Visual COBOL window.

Configure a Deployment Directory

Note: The default deployment folder used by Enterprise Server is a subfolder to your Visual COBOL installation folder. If you have Administrator privileges to the Visual COBOL installation structure, or if you started Visual COBOL using Run as Administrator, you are not required to complete this section of the tutorial. Otherwise, you must complete this section to create and configure an alternative deployment folder.

Create the deploy folder

Without Administrator privileges, you cannot deploy to Enterprise Server from the default Visual COBOL deployment folder. To ensure successful deployment, create a deploy folder in your ProgramEJB project.

In the COBOL Explorer, right-click the project; then select New > Folder from the context menu.
In the Folder name field, type deploy; click Finish.
Note: To ensure that you can see the deploy folder in COBOL Explorer:
1. Click View Menu > Customize View.
  This opens the Available Customizations dialog box.
2. Uncheck Empty folders outside categories.
3. Click OK.

Import the .mfdeploy File

The new deploy folder must contain the .mfdeploy configuration file. You import the file from the COBOL Explorer.

From the COBOL Explorer, right-click the project folder; then select Import > Import from the context menu.
Expand General; then click double-click File System.
Click the Browse button that corresponds to the From directory field, and navigate to
```
InstallFolder\deploy
```
where InstallFolder is your Visual COBOL installation folder. By default, this is %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Micro Focus\Visual COBOL.
Click Select Folder.
Check .mfdeploy in the right pane.
In the Into folder field, append \deploy to the existing value so that it points to the deploy subdirectory.
Click Finish to import the file into the project.

Define the Deployment Directory

Now you need to configure the ESDEMO instance by defining the new deploy project folder as the deployment folder.

On the Enterprise Server Administration Home page in the Communications Processes column for your enterprise server instance, click the Details button that corresponds to Listeners.
Click the Listeners tab.
In the row for the Web listener name, click Edit.
Change the value of the New Status field to Stopped. This enables the listener used to deploy the service interface to the ESDEMO server.
Scroll down to the Configuration Information field; then within the field, scroll down until you find the relevant code, then change:
```
uploads=<ES>/deploy
```
to:
```
uploads=ProjectFolder/deploy
```
where ProjectFolder is the full path to your project folder, using forward slashes to separate subfolders. For example:
```
uploads=c:/Users/Bob/workspace/project-name/deploy
```
Click OK.
Click Home to return to the Home page.