Deploying a Mobile Application Project

Deploy a Mobile Application project directly to an SAP Mobile Server, and optionally create a reusable deployment profile.

1. Right-click the Mobile Application project and select Deploy Project.
   Alternatively, you can launch the deployment wizard, which automatically sets the SAP Mobile Server portion of the wizard, by dragging a Mobile Application project folder from Workspace Navigator and dropping it on the SAP Mobile Server in Enterprise Explorer to which you are deploying.

   Note: As an option, you can press F9 when your cursor is in the Mobile Application Diagram to launch the Deployment wizard for the corresponding project. If a deployment profile exists for the project, F9 performs quick deployment of the project according to the profile.
2. Select a deployment mode (Update, Replace, or Verify), target version, Package name, and click Next.
3. Select the MBOs from each Synchronization Group to be deployed and click Next.
   Note: If any selected MBOs contain errors, the Next and Finish buttons are disabled.
4. Create or add required JAR files for MBOs that use Resultset Filters or Custom Result Checkers and click Next.
5. Select a target server, click Connect, and select a Domain and Security Configuration for the deployment package and click Next. (Optional) If no SAP Mobile Server connection exists, click Create and define a connection profile for one to which you can connect and deploy the deployment package.
6. Deploy applications to SAP Mobile Server – select the applications to deploy to SAP Mobile Server. A unique Application ID identifies the application and uses the project name by default.
   SAP Mobile WorkSpace lists not only local applications defined through the mobile application project's context menu Properties > Mobile Application Project Configuration, but all applications already assigned to the selected domain of the target server (available applications), whether those existing applications contain this current mobile application project or not.  SAP Mobile WorkSpace validates the projects for:

   • If the local and server applications are the same, but the display name or description differ, they display in the target applications list, but a validation error appears because the assigned application ID must be unique.
   • When deploying the project/package with "Replace" mode, if the project/package already exists in an available application that exists on the server, but that application is not selected as the target application, a warning indicates that the server will remove the project/package from the existing application.
   • If a local application is added to the target applications list, and a server application with the same ID but different display name/description is not assigned, a warning indicates that you can modify the display name/description of the existing sever application with that of the local application.
7. Map connection profile to server connections – you must map design-time connection profiles to server-side (runtime) enterprise information system (EIS) data sources referenced by the MBOs in the project. Deployment fails if the EIS data sources are not running and available to connect to. To map the connection profile to a server connection, select the connection profile from the list of available connection profiles then select the corresponding server connection to which it maps, or select <New Server Connection...> to create a new server connection.

   Contact the system administrator in cases where your development environment permits access to systems that the SAP Mobile Server prohibits.

   Note: You can also modify server connection properties (Web service connections only).
8. If a logical role is defined in your MBO, map logical roles to physical roles. If there are no logical roles defined, this page is skipped. Click Next.
9. (Optional) Specify the name and location for the new deployment profile. This is useful for troubleshooting MBO and deployment errors.
   • Save the deployment settings as a deployment profile – if you do not save your settings to a deployment profile, they are lost when you exit the Deploy wizard.
   • Enter or select the parent folder – by default, Deployment is the folder in which the deployment profile is saved.
   • File name – the name of this deployment profile. The deployment profile is assigned a .deploy extension.
10. Click Finish to deploy the project to the SAP Mobile Server's Packages folder.