Installing the Wink-based Feed Sample application on WebSphere Application Server Community Edition 2.x.

The IBM® support for feeds, using Apache Wink libraries, primarily consists of the following items:

This section describes the procedure for installing the Feed Sample application into WebSphere® Application Server Community Edition 2.x. It is assumed that you are familiar with application installation and administration for the application server.

Before you begin

Locate the Feed Sample application WAR file that is provided with this documentation.  Depending on how you obtained this Sample application, you can find the WAR file in one of the following locations:

Adding required JAR files

  1. Feed requires the following Wink JAR files: ibm-wink-jaxrs*.jar, jsr311-api*.jar, ibm-jaxb*.jar, JSON4J.jar, slf4j*.jar, jcl-over-slf4j*.jar, httpclient*.jar, httpcore*.jar, commons-codec*.jar and commons-lang*.jar.
  2. You must add these JAR files into the class path. One mechanism is to add them into the shared library, and associate it with the applications that need these JAR files. See the WebSphere Application Server Community Edition Documentation to complete this task.

Installation the sample application using the administrative console

  1. Log into the administrative console for the application server.
  2. Click Applications > Deploy New in the menu.
  3. Browse your file system, and select the SampleFeedApp_Wink.war file that you located earlier.
  4. Click Install. The application automatically starts, and installation is complete.