Chapter 5. Administrative Scripting

As a WebSphere Application Server (WAS) administrator, you will soon find that doing administration manually becomes laborious when you have a large number of administration tasks to perform. Whether you work for a large organization or not, you will need to deploy many applications into your WAS environments. Sometimes the same deployment will be repeated time and time again. In Chapter 3, Deploying your Applications, we learned how to manually deploy an EAR file using the Administration console. We found that, depending on the type of application being deployed, there could be many configuration elements involved before an application is considered ready for runtime use. To speed up deployments and make them more consistent and controllable, we need to look at how we can automate our deployments. It is also important that we are able to automate the configuration of WAS, which can save many hours of manual administrative efforts. In this chapter, we...