Use this page to view and manage enterprise applications.
This page lists installed enterprise applications. System applications, which are central to the product, are not shown in the list because users cannot edit them. Examples of system applications include isclite, managementEJB and filetransfer.
To view this administrative console page, click Applications > Enterprise Applications.
To view the values specified for an application's configuration, click the application name in the list. The displayed application settings page shows the values specified. On the settings page, you can change existing configuration values and link to additional console pages that assist you in configuring the application.
To manage an installed enterprise application, enable the Select check box beside the application name in the list and click a button:
Button | Resulting action |
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Start | Attempts to run the application. After the application starts up successfully, the state of the application changes to Started if the application starts up on all deployment targets, else the state changes to Partial Start. |
Stop | Attempts to stop the processing of the application. After the application stops successfully, the state of the application changes to Stopped if the application stops on all deployment targets, else the state changes to Partial Stop. |
Install | Opens a wizard that helps you deploy an application or a module such as a .jar, .war or .rar file onto a server or a cluster. |
Uninstall | Deletes the application from the WebSphere® Application Server configuration repository and deletes the application binaries from the file system of all nodes where the application modules are installed after the configuration is saved and synchronized with the nodes. |
Update | Opens a wizard that helps you update application files deployed on a server. You can update the full application, a single module, a single file, or part of the application. If a new file or module has the same relative path as a file or module already existing on the server, the new file or module replaces the existing file or module. If the new file or module does not exist on the server, it is added to the deployed application. |
Remove File | Deletes a file of the deployed application or module. Remove File deletes a file from the configuration repository and from the file system of all nodes where the file is installed. |
Export | Accesses the Export Application EAR files page, which you use to export an enterprise application to an EAR file at a location of your choice. Use the Export action to back up a deployed application and to preserve its binding information. |
Export DDL | Accesses the Export Application DDL files page, which you use to export DDL files (Table.ddl) in the EJB modules of an enterprise application to a location of your choice. |
Export File | Accesses the Export a file from an application page, which you use
to export a file of an enterprise application or module to a location of your
choice. If the browser does not prompt for a location to store the file, click and specify a location to save the file that is shown in the browser. |
These buttons are not available when this page is accessed from an application server settings page. When this page is accessed from an application server settings page, it is entitled the Installed applications page.
Specifies the name of the installed (or deployed) application. Application names must be unique within a cell and cannot contain an unallowed character.
Indicates whether the application deployed on the application server is started, stopped, or unavailable.
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Started | Application is running. |
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Partial Start | Application is in the process of changing from a Stopped state to a Started state. Application is starting to run but is not fully running yet. Or, it cannot fully start because a server mapped to one or more application modules is stopped. |
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Stopped | Application is not running. |
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Partial Stop | Application is in the process of changing from a Started state to a Stopped state. Application has not stopped running yet. |
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Unavailable | Status cannot be determined. An application with an unavailable status might, in fact, be running but have an unavailable status because the server running the administrative console cannot communicate with the server running the application. |
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Not applicable | Application does not provide information as to whether it is running. |
The status of an application on a Web server is always Unavailable.
Specifies the order in which applications are started when the server starts. The application with the lowest startup order is started first.
This table column is available only when this page is accessed from an application server settings page; thus when this page is entitled the Installed applications page.