Some migration steps are optional depending on what customized resources you had in your previous version of IBM® WebSphere® Portal Express. You only need to migrate those resources that are relevant to your environment.
Choose the following relevant customized resources to migrate:
- Migrate customized themes and skins if you want to use new functionality with them.
- Recreate your global settings and portal service configuration.
- Migrate portlets you created using one of the following methods:
- Copy the .war files into the portal_server_root/installableApps directory
- For predeployed portlets, install the applications to the WebSphere
Application Server system and then register them with WebSphere Portal Express.
Important: When choosing this method, do not copy the
.war files into the
portal_server_root/installableApps directory.