WebSphere Application Server - Express, Version 6.0.x Operating Systems: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows

Administering applications and their environment

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This section focuses on administering production environments and realistic test environments, including:

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
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.