Files in the exploded folder after rebuilding web applications

[thesasuser]

Hello
I have a SAS 9.4M4 environment in which there are files in the [SASConfig]/Lev1/Web/Staging/exploded/platformpws/platform/WEB-INF/lib. There are jar files under this folder. Wondering if these can be safely deleted?

[gwootton · Accepted solution]

This "platformpws" path in the Staging/exploded gets populated during the process of building and deploying the platform web services web application. You can delete the whole platformpws directory in there assuming you are not currently performing a Deploy Web Applications step in SAS Deployment Manager, which copies the files from the staging location to the SASServer14_1/sas_webapps path.

The next time you run the Deploy Web Applications task it will be recreated.

[thesasuser]

Thanks @gwootton 
Does the middle tier requires a reboot after the deletion?

[gwootton]

No, this is a staging location as part of the deploy web applications process, they are not being used outside of that process. As I understand it when you run the "Build Web Applications" task, the WAR/EAR files are generated into Web/Staging, and in the "Deploy Web Applications" the web app servers are stopped, the WAR/EAR files are extracted to Web/Staging/exploded then those extracted files are copied to SASServerX_Y/sas_webapps, and then the web app servers are started again.