Chapter 4. Administrative Scripting

As a WebSphere 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 also have to deploy many applications into your WebSphere environments. In Chapter 2, we learned how to manually deploy an EAR file using the administration console and we found that, depending on the type of application being deployed, there could be many configuration elements involved before the 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 WebSphere which can save many hours of manual administrative efforts. WebSphere supports the use of the Jython language for administrative scripting. Jython is an implementation of the high-level...