InfoCenter Home >
6: Administer applications >
6.2: Preparing to host applications >
6.2.1: The default resources and configurations

6.2.1: The default resources and configurations

IBM WebSphere Application Server provides default configurations, allowing administrators to begin quickly and easily. The product installs a default application server, a default enterprise application, the set of required resources (such as a JDBC provider for data access), and a default virtual host.

Verifying that the default administrative resources exist

To verify whether the default resources are installed:

  1. Start the administrative console.
  2. Locate resources in the tree view, such as:
    • Default application server (Default Server)
    • Default enterprise application (sampleApp)

The "default" and "examples" Web applications

The default enterprise application (sampleApp.ear) is installed to provide you with a method to verify the installation of WebSphere Application Server and its functionality.

The sampleApp consists of several Web modules (such as "default_app" and "examples") and EJB JAR files (such as "Increment" and "beenthere").

The Web module "default_app" has a context root of "/". Servlets provided in the default_app are:

  • snoop (accessed by entering http:///servlet/snoop in a Web browser)
  • hello (accessed by entering http:///servlet/hello in a Web browser)

These servlets can be used to quickly verify that the default application server is up and running.

The Web module named "examples" has a context root of "/webapp/examples". The examples Web module provides a series of tools and examples for use with the application server environment, including:

  • The HitCount example, which allows you to verify both session support EJB support
  • The BeenThere servlet, which is provided for demonstrating EJB workload management across a cluster of servers.

You can access the servlets in the examples Web application by entering http:///webapp/examples in a browser, to present the welcome page (index.html) for the Web module.

The sampleApp.ear archive is provided in the /installableApps directory in the event that you want to install the application into a different application server. Before installing the sampleApp on another server, you will need to create a data source for use by the HitCount EJB JAR (Inc), along with the requisite INC table.

Go to previous article: Preparing to host applications Go to next article: Assembling applications and generating deployment code

 

 
Go to previous article: Preparing to host applications Go to next article: Assembling applications and generating deployment code