If you customized your development environment in any way
in a previous version, you must reapply your customizations to the
new version. Examples of customization include changes to rule model
extensions, extension mechanisms for permissions, lifecycle management,
and any modification to the editors.
Before you begin
Ensure that you have applied the same customizations to
Rule
Designer and
Decision
Center in
your previous version of
Operational Decision Manager. You
should also verify that you have installed the latest version
Operational Decision Manager and
its fix pack.
About this task
Rule model extensions are shared between Rule
Designer and Decision
Center,
so you must define the same extensions for both environments before
deploying them. This means that if you extended the rule model, to
add custom properties for example, you will need to add the same model
extensions to the default extension model files and extension data
files of the new version that you are migrating to.
Rule
Designer extensions
are applied as plug-ins. Decision
Center extensions
are deployed by repackaging the Decision
Center application.
The code for both types of extensions must be rebuilt in the new version
of Rule
Designer and
updated.
Note: Migrating extensions is optional if
you use Rule
Designer only
to edit the BOM.
Procedure
To migrate rule model extensions:
Important: Do not reuse the existing extension files from
the previous version of Operational Decision Manager, create
new ones instead.
In the previous version of Rule
Designer,
click and follow the wizard to obtain new extension model
files.- Repeat step 1 but for the extension data files this time.
- Migrate the extensions:
- In the new version of Rule
Designer,
click , import the extension model file and apply it first.
Then import the extension data file and apply it.
- In the new version of Decision
Center,
either use the Installation Settings Wizard in the
Enterprise console or the Ant task set-extensions to
import your extension files and apply them.
To migrate authoring and rule management extensions:
- Migrate the extensions:
- In the new version of Rule
Designer,
import the plug-in projects into the workspace and rebuild.
- In the new version of Decision
Center,
import the JARs in EAR/WAR and repackage the archive. For more information,
see Repackaging the Decision Center archive.
- Fix any deprecation warnings.
- Apply the extensions.
What to do next
Now that you have migrated your extensions, you can migrate
your development environment.