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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

Deploying an application


As WebSphere Application Server administrators, we are asked to deploy applications. These applications may be written in-house or delivered by a third-party vendor. Either way they will, most often, be provided as an EAR file for deployment into WAS. You may remember this from Chapter 1, WebSphere Application Server 8.0: Product Overview, where we created a profile and opted not to install an EAR file called the "default application". For the purpose of understanding a manual deployment, we are going to install the default application EAR file.

The default application can be located in the <was_root>/installableApps folder. The following steps will show how we deploy the EAR file.

  1. Open the Administration console and navigate to the Applications section and click on New Application, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. You now see the option to create one of the following three types of applications:

    Application type

    Description

    Enterprise Application

    An...