Application Assembly Tool troubleshooting tips
If you are having problems installing the WebSphere Application Server
Application Assembly Tool (AAT), follow these steps:
- If a problem occurs using this component, the first thing to do is to
enable the printing of messages and exceptions to the screen.
- Modify the assembly.bat file located in the bin directory of
the product installation. Change the statement "start javaw" to
just "java".
- Restart the AAT and a hanging command prompt window will appear through
the lifetime of the Java process and display messages and exceptions.
- Look up any error or warning messages you see in the message reference
table.
- With a problem application open in the AAT, use the Verify menu
command. This command will go through all components of the application and
validate them for any XML errors or invalid entries such as missing fields,
invalid bean or class references.
To verify the integrity of an EAR (enterprise archive resource) file,
expand it manually (outside of the AAT) by running the WebSphere Application
Server install_root\bin\EARExpander.bat or EARExpander.sh file
and supplying the name of the EAR file as a parameter. Browse the directory
structure of the expanded EAR file to see if contains all the expected files.
Here
is an example using the Windows command prompt: EARExpander -ear my.ear
-operationDir c:\tmp\myear -operation expand
- Contact the developer of the EAR file or its component files and ensure
that they comply with J2EE specification level 1.3 and that any enterprise
beans it contains conform to the EJB 2.0 Specification level.
If none of these steps solves the problem, check to see if the problem
is identified and documented using the links in Diagnosing and fixing problems: Resources for learning.
For current information available from IBM Support on known problems and
their resolution, see the IBM Support
page.
IBM Support has documents that can save you time gathering information
needed to resolve this problem. Before opening a PMR, see the IBM Support
page.

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Last updated: Jun 21, 2007 9:56:50 PM CDT
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