You can create representations of unmanaged Web applications so that the on demand router (ODR) can route requests to applications that are installed outside of the product environment to assisted life cycle middleware servers.
To route HTTP requests to applications that are deployed on other middleware servers and classify these requests to service policies, the runtime environment needs information about the application. By creating an unmanaged Web application, you create a representation of the application that is installed on the middleware server that includes this information. WebSphere® Virtual Enterprise does not manage the life cycle of the application in any way, but can route requests to the application. The status of unmanaged Web applications is directly linked to the status of the server to which the unmanaged Web applications are deployed. The ODR can only route HTTP requests to these applications.
An unmanaged application
for WebSphere Application Server
Community Edition is a representation
of an application that has been installed in the WebSphere Application Server
Community Edition Version 1 console, specifically.
With middleware discovery, an unmanaged WebSphere Application Server
Community Edition application can also
be a representation of a discovered application. Middleware discovery
locates existing installations of WebSphere Application Server
Community Edition servers and their installed
applications, and creates the corresponding configuration to include
servers and applications in the WebSphere Virtual Enterprise cell.