PAR

[Former Member]

please help me out on what a PAR file is actually?

thanks in advance

krishna chaitanya

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Krishna,

Yes you are correct. All the portal applications(which are nothing but portal components and services) are packaged as PAR files for easy deployment to portal.

Regards,

Abhishek

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

hi michael n abhishek

u have cleared it

thanks

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Can you then please mark this as answred?

Thanks

[Former Member]

Hi Krishna,

Portal applications are packaged as PAR files - it is the format that the Portal Runtime accepts for deployment of portal applications.

A PAR file is an standard JAR file in ZIP format containing a portal application with a XML-based Portal Application Deployment descriptor(DD) called portalapp.xml.

The DD describes the portal application itself and provides information required at runtime.

Regards,

Abhishek.

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[Former Member]

hi abhishek

does every component that we create in an application or project, whatever it is,is stored in a zip format for convenient deployment into the portal?

thanks in advance

krishna chaitanya

[Former Member]

A PAR file can contain multiple components - generally you make 1 per NWDS project..

The fact it is a ZIP format is just an internal thing - you don't have to worry about it!

Cheers

[Former Member]

A PAR file is a specially formatted ZIp file that describes a portal component or service. Although it can be built manually, it is normally built using the NetWeaver Developer Studio.

Cheers