[Version 5.0.2 and later]Starting the Assembly Toolkit

The Assembly Toolkit provides a graphical interface for packaging code artifacts into various archives (modules) and configuring related Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Version 1.2 or 1.3 compliant deployment descriptors.

Before you begin

The Assembly Toolkit is a component of the Application Server Toolkit (ASTK). To install the Assembly Toolkit, follow the installation instructions for the ASTK and, when prompted by the ASTK installation program, select to install the application assembly toolkit.

If you have installed the Assembly Toolkit component of ASTK previously and you install the Assembly Toolkit again, you must delete the workspace of the previous installation of ASTK before starting the Assembly Toolkit. The default workspace directory is my_directory\IBM\astk\workspace. If you do not delete the workspace for a previous installation of ASTK, you might encounter error messages such as the following when starting the Assembly Toolkit:

Problems during startup. Check the ".log" file in the ".metadata" 
directory of your workspace.

Steps for this task

  1. Run the astk executable.
  2. In the Application Server Toolkit window, specify the workspace directory and click OK to launch the graphical interface.

Results

The navigation tree displays a hierarchical structure used to build the contents of a new module, or to work with the contents of an existing module.

What to do next

Consider whether you have any existing J2EE 1.2 application modules that you would like to migrate to J2EE 1.3.

You can import or create new modules of the following types, to assemble into an application module later:

Rather than import or create new modules to assemble an application, you can proceed directly to assembling a new application module. While assembling an application module, you can create any new modules that you need.


Related concepts
Application assembly and J2EE applications
Related tasks
Verifying archive files
Generating code for EJB deployment
Assembling data access applications
Related reference
astk command



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Last updated: Jun 21, 2007 4:55:42 PM CDT    WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, Version 5.0.2
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