You can use the Installation Manager GUI to install the
Application Client.
Before you begin
Install Installation Manager: - Perform one of the following procedures:
- If you want to use the Installation Manager that is included with
this product, perform the following actions:
- Obtain the necessary files.
There are
three basic options for obtaining and installing Installation Manager
and the product.
Notes: - If you do not have a Passport
Advantage ID and password, you must install the product from
the product repositories on the media or local repositories.
- With the Packaging Utility, you can create and manage packages
for installation repositories. You can copy multiple packages into
one repository or copy multiple disks for one product into a repository.
You can copy packages from Passport Advantage or a web-based
repository into a local repository for example. For more information
on the Packaging Utility, go to the IBM Installation
Manager Version 1.6 Information Center or the IBM Installation
Manager Version 1.5 Information Center.
- Change to the location containing the Installation Manager installation
files, and run one of the following commands:
- Administrative installation:
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- Non-administrative installation:
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- Group-mode installation:
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./groupinst
The installer opens an Install Packages window.
- Make sure that the Installation Manager package is selected, and
click Next.
- Accept the terms in the license agreements, and click Next.
The
program creates the directory for your installation.
- Click Next.
- Review the summary information, and click Install.
- If the installation is successful, the program displays a message
indicating that installation is successful.
- If the installation is not successful, click View Log
File to troubleshoot the problem.
- If you already have Installation Manager Version 1.5.2 or later
installed on your system and you want to use it to install and maintain
the product, obtain the necessary product files.
There
are three basic options for installing the product.
- Access the physical media, and use local installation
You
can access the product repositories on the product media. Use Installation
Manager to install the product from the product repositories on the
media.
- Download the files from the Passport Advantage site, and use
local installation
Licensed customers with a Passport Advantage ID and password
can download the necessary product repositories from the Passport Advantage site.
- Download the product repositories from the Passport Advantage site.
- Use Installation Manager to install the product from the downloaded
repositories.
- Access the live repositories, and use web-based installation
If
you have a Passport
Advantage ID and password, you can use Installation Manager to
install the product from the web-based repositories. Use Installation
Manager to install the product from the web-based repository located
at
http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/com.ibm.websphere.APPCLIENT.v85
Note: This location
does not contain a web page that you can access using a web browser.
This is a remote web-based repository location that you must specify
for the value of the -repositories parameter so that the imcl command
can access the files in this repository to install the product.
Whenever
possible, you should use the remote web-based repositories so that
you are accessing the most up-to-date installation files.
Notes: - If you do not have a Passport
Advantage ID and password, you must install the product from
the product repositories on the media or local repositories.
- With the Packaging Utility, you can create and manage packages
for installation repositories. You can copy multiple packages into
one repository or copy multiple disks for one product into a repository.
You can copy packages from Passport Advantage or a web-based
repository into a local repository for example. For more information
on the Packaging Utility, go to the IBM Installation
Manager Version 1.6 Information Center or the IBM Installation
Manager Version 1.5 Information Center.
- Add the product repository to your Installation Manager preferences.
- Start Installation Manager.
- In the top menu, click File > Preferences.
- Select Repositories.
- Perform the following actions:
- Click Add Repository.
- Enter the path to the repository.config file
in the location containing the repository files.
- Click OK.
- Deselect any locations listed in the Repositories window that
you will not be using.
- Click Apply.
- Click OK.
- Click File > Exit to close Installation
Manager.
Procedure
- Start Installation Manager.
- Click Install.
Note: If
you are prompted to authenticate, use the IBM ID and password that you registered with
on the program website.
Installation Manager searches its
defined repositories for available packages.
- Perform the following actions.
- Select Application Client for IBM WebSphere Application
Server and the appropriate version.
Note: If you are installing the ILAN version of this
product, select Application Client for IBM WebSphere Application
Server (ILAN).
If you already have the Application Client
installed on your system, a message displays indicating that the Application
Client is already installed. For a given Installation Manager, you
can install only one Application Client.
Tip: If the Search service repositories during installation
and updates option is selected on the Installation Manager Repository
preference page and you are connected to the Internet, you can click Check
for Other Versions and Extensions to search for updates in the
default update repositories for the selected packages. In this case,
you do not need to add the specific service-repository URL to the
Installation Manager Repository preference page.
- Select the fixes to install.
Any recommended fixes are selected by default.
If there
are recommended fixes, you can select the option to show only recommended
fixes and hide non-recommended fixes.
- Click Next.
- Accept the terms in the license agreements, and click Next.
- Specify the installation root directory for the product
binaries, which are also referred to as the core product files or
system files.
The panel also displays the shared resources
directory and disk-space information.
Restrictions: - Deleting the default target location and leaving an installation-directory
field empty prevents you from continuing.
- Do not use symbolic links as the destination directory.
Symbolic
links are not supported.
- Do not use a semicolon in the directory name.
The Application
Client cannot install properly if the target directory includes a
semicolon.
A semicolon is the character
used to construct the class path on Windows systems.
The maximum path length on the Windows Server
2008, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 operating systems is 60 characters.
- Click Next.
- Select any features that you want to install.
Choose
from the following optional features:
- IBM Developer Kit, Java 2 Technology Edition
This option installs
the IBM Developer Kit, Java 2 Technology Edition.
This feature
includes a development kit and a runtime-environment package. The
runtime-environment package is always installed with the Java EE and
Java thin application client feature even if this feature is not installed.
- Java 2 Runtime Environment
This option installs the Java 2 runtime
environment.
This feature includes the Java 2 runtime environment
of IBM Developer Kit, Java 2 Technology Edition.
- Developer Kit
This option installs the developer kit.
This
feature includes the developer kit of IBM Developer Kit, Java 2 Technology
Edition.
- Samples
This option installs executable and source-code examples
of programming in both Java EE and non-Java EE client environments.
- Standalone Thin Clients, Resource Adapters, and Embeddable Containers
IBM
thin clients and resource adapters provide a set of clients and resource
adapters for a variety of technologies, such as JAX-WS, JAX-RPC, JAX-RS,
XML, EJB, JPA, JMS, and more. An embeddable container runs in a standalone
Java Platform, Standard Edition environment. For example, you can
use the embeddable EJB container to run enterprise beans outside the
application server.
- Standalone thin clients and resource adapters
This option installs
the runtime for standalone thin clients.
- Embeddable EJB container
This option installs the embeddable
EJB container.
The embeddable EJB container is a Java Archive
(JAR) file that you can use to run enterprise beans in a standalone
Java Platform, Standard Edition environment. You can run enterprise
beans using this embeddable container outside the application server.
The embeddable EJB container is a part of the EJB 3.1 specification
and is primarily used for unit testing enterprise beans business logic.
Tip: You can run the Installation Manager later
to modify this installation and add or remove features.
- Click Next.
- Enter the host name and port number of the Websphere Application
Server to which you want to connect.
- Click Next.
- Review the summary information, and click Install.
- Click Finish.
- Click File > Exit to close Installation
Manager.