This section focuses on administering production environments and realistic test environments, including:
- Post-installation and customization tasks for administrators
- Deploying applications onto application servers
- Administering applications and their server environments
See also the monitoring, tuning and security sections.
- Setting up the application serving environment
- This topic summarizes the contents of the documentation that helps you set up your
application serving environment. This information is for administrators, particularly
those performing installation, customization, and maintenance of topologies.
- Using the administrative clients
- The product provides a variety of administrative clients for deploying and administering your
applications and application serving environment, including configurations and logical
administrative domains. Choose from scripting (wsadmin), the administrative console, and other options.
- Starting and stopping quick reference
- This topic describes how to start and stop the main operations in your application serving environment.
It also provides a quick guide to accessing the main tools that are provided with this product.
- Class loading
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Class loaders are part of the Java virtual machine (JVM) code and are responsible for finding and loading
class files. Class loaders enable applications that are deployed on servers to access repositories of
available classes and resources. Application developers and deployers must consider the location of
class and resource files, and the class loaders used to access those files, to make the files available
to deployed applications. Class loaders affect the packaging of applications and the run-time behavior
of packaged applications of deployed applications.
- Deploying and administering applications
- This section describes how to deploy applications onto application servers,
and then how to administer the deployed applications. It includes installing
applications, starting applications, exporting application files, updating
applications, removing applications, and other common tasks.
- Administering WebSphere applications
- This section provides administrative instructions that are specific to
the various types of applications. For example, you can focus on administering
your Web applications in their Web container; or aspects of Web services support;
or the messaging or security subsystems.
- Troubleshooting deployment
- This section describes how to identify and handle a variety of problems
encountered during development, assembly, and deployment activities.
- Troubleshooting administration
- This section describes how to identify and handle a variety of problems
encountered during administrative activities.