This section focuses on administering production environments and realistic
test environments, including post-installation and customization tasks for
administrators, deploying applications onto application servers, and
administering applications and their server environments. See also the
monitoring, tuning and security sections.
- Using the
administrative clients
- The product provides a variety of administrative clients for
deploying and administering your applications and application serving
environment, including configurations and logical administrative
domains. Choose from scripting (wsadmin), the administrative console,
and other options.
- Starting and stopping
quick reference
- This topic describes how to start and stop the main operations in
your application serving environment. It also provides a quick guide to
accessing the main tools that are provided with this product.
- Backing up and
recovering the application serving environment
- The product uses many operating system and application resources
that you should consider adding to your backup and recovery procedures.
- Class loading
- Class loaders are part of the Java virtual machine (JVM) code and
are responsible for finding and loading class files. Class loaders
enable applications that are deployed on servers to access repositories
of available classes and resources. Application developers and
deployers must consider the location of class and resource files, and
the class loaders used to access those files, to make the files
available to deployed applications. Class loaders affect the packaging
of applications and the run-time behavior of packaged applications of
deployed applications.
- Deploying and administering
applications
- This section describes how to deploy applications onto
application servers,
and then how to administer the deployed applications. It includes
installing
applications, starting applications, exporting application files,
updating
applications, removing applications, and other common tasks.
- Administering WebSphere applications
- This section provides
administrative instructions that are specific to
the various types of applications. For example, you can focus on
administering
your Web applications in their Web container; or aspects of Web
services support;
or the messaging or security subsystems. In the navigation tree, expand
Administering applications and their environment >
Administering WebSphere applications to view the contents of this
section.
- Troubleshooting deployment
- This section describes how to identify and handle a variety of
problems
encountered during development, assembly, and deployment activities.
- Troubleshooting
administration
- This section describes how to identify and handle a variety of
problems
encountered during administrative activities.