You can install and remove a product feature using Installation
Manager response files.
About this task
Perform this procedure to use Installation Manager to
install or remove a feature silently using a response file.
Like
other Installation Manager operations, you can invoke a modification
using the imcl command-line tool. Go to the IBM® Installation
Manager Version 1.6 Information Center or the IBM Installation
Manager Version 1.5 Information Center for more information.
Optional features: In the following list of
optional features, the offering names to be used in the response files
are enclosed in parentheses:
- EJBDeploy tool for pre-EJB 3.0 modules (ejbdeploy)
This
option installs the EJBDeploy tool for pre-EJB 3.0 modules.
Before
you deploy applications on the server, you must run the EJBDeploy
tool on applications that contain EJB modules that are based on specifications
prior to EJB 3.0. Running the EJBDeploy tool generates deployment
code for enterprise beans in the application. Beginning with the EJB
3.0 specification, the EJBDeploy tool is no longer required because
WebSphere Application Server uses a new feature called JITDeploy,
which automatically generates code when the application starts.
Tip: Unexpected errors might occur if applications that are
provided with IBM WebSphere Application Server, such as the samples,
require the optional EJBDeploy tool for pre-EJB 3.0 modules but the
feature is not installed. If you deploy and use applications that
might require pre-EJB 3.0 modules, include the optional EJBDeploy
feature in all WebSphere Application Server installations that will
be used by servers running the pre-EJB 3.0 applications.
- Standalone thin clients, resource adapters, and embeddable containers
- Standalone thin clients and resource adapters (thinclient)
This
option installs the IBM standalone thin clients and resource adapters.
IBM
thin clients provide a set of clients for a variety of technologies,
such as JAX-WS, JAX-RPC, JAX-RS, XML, EJB, JPA, JMS, and more. IBM
resource adapters provide the resource adapters for JMS.
- Embeddable EJB container (embeddablecontainer)
This
option installs the embeddable EJB container.
The embeddable
EJB Container is a Java Archive (JAR) file that you can use to run
enterprise beans in a standalone Java Platform, Standard Edition environment.
You can run enterprise beans using this embeddable container outside
the application server. The embeddable EJB container is a part of
the EJB 3.1 specification and is primarily used for unit testing enterprise
beans business logic.
- Sample applications (samples)
This option installs
the sample applications for learning and demonstration environments.
The
samples include both source code files and integrated enterprise applications
that demonstrate some of the latest Java (TM) Platform, Enterprise
Edition (Java EE) and WebSphere technologies. The samples are recommended
for installation to learning and demonstration environments, such
as development environments. However, they are not recommended for
installation to production application server environments.
Note: In
WebSphere Application Server Version 8.5.5.0, the Liberty profile
was promoted from a feature to an independently installable offering.
You cannot make an inplace update of the Version 8.5.0.
x Liberty
profile feature. The
wlp folder includes the
Liberty runtime and any user data or server configurations that you
have saved in the
wlp/usr folder. If you have
a combined full-profile and Liberty-profile Version 8.5.0.
x installation,
the update program will back up the
wlp folder
for the existing Version 8.5.0.
x Liberty profile
feature into the
wlp.bak_<timestamp> folder
and uninstall the feature during an update to Version 8.5.5.0 or higher.
You can continue using Liberty from the backed-up location or copy
it elsewhere. To update the Liberty profile to Version 8.5.5.0 or
higher, you then must install WebSphere® Application
Server Liberty (with the
com.ibm.websphere.liberty.BASE.v85 offering ID). After installing WebSphere Application Server
Liberty, you can move any user data and server configurations
from the
wlp.bak_<timestamp> folder
to the new Liberty installation. See
Updating the Liberty profile from Version 8.5.0 to
Version 8.5.5 for more information.
Restriction: You cannot use the Installation
Manager to modify an installation and add or remove the full WebSphere Application Server
profile feature or the Liberty profile feature.