In this chapter, we learned about deploying applications. We deployed two types of applications, one being a simple web application and the other being a data access application which was connected to a database. In this chapter, we focused on Oracle and Derby. However, we know that we could use any other database vendor and WAS can be easily configured to talk to other RDBMS types.
Business-level applications were explained and demonstrated by example. We also learned how to deploy shared libraries as BLA composition units. BLAs allow multiple applications to share common JEE artifacts via the BLA asset management function.
In this chapter, we focused on manual deployments for the installation of an application. Later, in Chapter 5, Administrative Scripting, we will cover how to automate deployments using administrative scripting. We also learned about a new feature of WebSphere Application Server 8, which allows a drag and drop style of deployment by simply placing an application...