Upgrading OpenBD

You may be wondering how you can upgrade your own installation of OpenBD with the latest features and enhancements without losing all your existing settings. The engineers at OpenBD know only too well the hassles and stress that can come with software management and they strive to make this as easy and as painless as possible.

As an example, the OpenBD plugin technology makes adding new features to your installation by simply dropping a JAR file into the /WEB-INF/lib/ folder and restarting the engine. No complicated README files, no control panels to visit. To remove it, you simply remove the JAR file. All software distribution should be this easy.

Upgrading the core engine is no harder.

All you have to do is to replace all the JAR files located in your we bapp's /WEB-INF/lib/ folder with the JAR files from the latest release or nightly build.

1. Locate your /../yourserver/WEB-INF/lib/ for your server/webapp
2. Download OpenBD WAR file from the nightly build or new release from http://www.openbluedragon.org/download.cfm
3. Unzip the downloaded WAR file into a temporary directory
4. Delete all the files inside /../yourserver/WEB-INF/lib/ (backup just incase you want to go back)
5. Copy the contents of the /openbdwar/WEB-INF/lib/ to /../yourserver/WEB-INF/lib/
6. Restart

That is all there is to it. Remember if you have dropped any plugin's into your installation you will have to copy back over again (or don't delete those in the first place). In the vast majority of cases, you can simply get away with just replacing the /WEB-INF/lib/OpenBlueDragon.jar file. But it is generally safer to just replace all the JAR files, just incase.

Now you can start playing with all the latest and greatest features that OpenBD is pioneering for the CFML world.