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.