850_update_bulletin - Progress Sonic Product Update Bulletin 8.5

Improvements for Responsive Business Integration: Sonic and DataXtend SI
Expand the XAR archives
In the Project Explorer view, click the icon on the left hand side of the XAR file to
expand it and view its details, as shown:.
Customize the XAR files or XAR folder contents for Sonic deployments by
setting flags such as ignore or overwrite
You can upload the XAR files to the Directory Service from the Sonic Workbench. Before
uploading the XAR files, you can define the rules for uploading the XAR files using the
overwrite, ignore or reset option. You can right-click the artifacts to select the Overwrite
Existing option to overwrite the available artifacts and provide the latest copy of the
service configuration from XAR based on the nature of changes encountered for the
Service Configuration file. You can also right-click the artifacts and select the Ignore
option if you want to ignore an existing file during upload.
If you execute any ignore or overwrite action, an import properties file is created by Sonic
Workbench if the properties file does not exist and you can see the correct status of the
configured elements. By default, no properties file is present and Sonic Workbench
retains its overwriting behavior during upload.
Create logical link with the external source XAR files
When you are working with DataXtend SI and Sonic in the same Eclipse installation and
in the same workspace, you can create a logical link to the XAR file in the DataXtend SI
project directory’s deployable folder. If you re-export the file in the SI Workbench, the
Sonic project automatically has the updated XAR file. However, if the XAR file is
updated in the DataXtend SI project, you will need to re-upload it and restart any
containers in which its data services are deployed. The Copy Deploy Archive into deploy
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