Chapter 3. Deploying your Applications

Now that we have installed an application server, we want to be able to deploy applications. Applications can be installed both manually and in an automated fashion using scripts. In this chapter, we will cover how to manually deploy a JEE (Java Enterprise Edition) application, later covering automated deployments in Chapter 5, Administrative Scripting. As we walk through this chapter, we will show you how to deploy two applications. One application does not require database connectivity, while the second is a database-aware application which requires some WebSphere Application Server (WAS) configuration to provide database connectivity to the application. We will also cover a new feature of WAS 8, where an application can be deployed simply by placing the application in a special monitored directory.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Deploying an application

• Starting and stopping applications

• Data sources

• JDBC providers

• J2C aliases

• Deploying...