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Find online information sources for application design tips.Design applications

Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is similar to Make, but Ant is different. Instead of a model in which it is extended with shell-based commands, Ant is extended using Java classes. Instead of writing shell commands, XML-based configuration files are used. Automate the build environment with Apache Ant

Browse tasks for developing, assembling, and deploying, and administering Web applications, comprised of HTML pages, servlets, and JavaServer Pages (JSP) files.Develop Web applications

Browse tasks for developing, assembling, and deploying, and administering EJB applications -- applications that contain enterprise beans.Develop EJB applications

Browse tasks for developing, assembling, and deploying, and administering client applications.Develop client applications

Browse tasks for developing, assembling, and deploying, and administering applications as Web services.Develop Web services

Browse tasks for developing, assembling, and deploying, and administering application that access data, and the resources that they access.Develop data access resources

Browse tasks for developing, assembling, and deploying, and administering application that send messages, and the JMS resources that they access.Develop messaging resources

Browse tasks for implementing security while developing, assembling, deploying, and administering applications.Secure applications, messages, and data

Find information and tasks for using WebSphere extensions to the J2EE programming model, which offer benefits from increasing developer productivity to improving application performance and capability.Take advantage of WebSphere programming model extensions

Perform this task when you have created and unit tested code artifacts that you want to assemble in an enterprise application and deploy onto an application server.Create enterprise application archives (EAR files)

Perform this task when you have created and unit tested Servlets, JavaServer Pages (JSP) files and other Web components that you want to assemble in an enterprise application and deploy onto an application server.Create Web application archives (WAR files)

Perform this task when you have created and unit tested an enterprise bean (EJB file) that you want to assemble in an enterprise application and deploy onto an application server.Create EJB application archives (JAR files)

Perform this task when you have created and unit tested an application client program that you want to assemble in an enterprise application and deploy onto an application server.Create application client archives (JAR files)

Perform this task when you have created and unit tested a resource adapter RAR file that you want to assemble in an enterprise application and deploy onto an application server.Create connector modules (RAR files)

Configure class loaders for application files or modules installed on an application server.Configure class loaders

You can make various changes to applications and their modules without having to stop the server and start it again. Making these types of changes is known as hot deployment and dynamic reloading.Dynamic application reloading

Troubleshoot problems that occur either during deployment or shortly afterwards, when you try to access an application that you just deployed for the first time.Troubleshoot deployment problems




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