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IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 Administration Guide

By : Steve Robinson
Book Image

IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 Administration Guide

By: Steve Robinson

Overview of this book

Administrators require a secure, scalable, and resilient application infrastructure to support the development of JEE applications and SOA services. IBM’s WebSphere Application Server is optimized for this task, and this book will ensure that you can utilize all that this tool has to offer with the exciting new features of IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0.IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 Administration Guide is fully revised with details of the new functionality of WebSphere Application Server 8.0, including the new installation GUI, managed deployment, and HPEL. With this book in hand, you will be equipped to provide an innovative, performance-based foundation to build, run, and manage JEE applications and SOA services.IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 has been tuned for higher performance out of the box, and numerous enhancements have been made to give you as an administrator more options for increasing runtime performance. This book will allow you to utilize all of these features, including HPEL logging and disabling WebSphere MQ Messaging. You will be taken through how to configure and prepare WebSphere resources for your application deployments, and by the end of IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 Administration Guide, you will be able to successfully manage and tune your WebSphere 8.0 implementation.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 Administration Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using the application


Select the HRLister application, as shown in the following screenshot, and click Start to start the application:

Once the HR Lister application has started, open a browser and navigate to the following URL: http://<host_name>:9080/hrlister/listtable?dbtype=oracle.

The URL can be broken up as follows:

<host_name>:<port>/<context_root>/<URL>

<host_name> = IP address or hostname

<port> = 9080, the default host port for WAS

<URI> = the resource name, that is, the ListTable servlet

<Querystring Paramter> = dbtype?<derby or oracle>

As it loads, the ListTable servlet will connect to the HR database and list the tables in the HR schema, as shown in the following screenshot:

Congratulations! You have now successfully installed and configured a data access application using an enterprise RDBMS product from Oracle.

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