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Deploying unmanaged Web applications
You can create representations of unmanaged Web applications so that the on demand router (ODR) can route requests to applications that are installed outside of the product environment to assisted life cycle middleware servers.
Before you begin

- Create and configure your middleware servers and dynamic clusters. Read about middleware servers and dynamic clusters for more information.
- Deploy the application to your assisted life cycle middleware servers, using the steps that are specified for the software that your middleware server runs. Be sure that you know or have access to the deployment information for the application, including the module name, context root, virtual host name, and the server or cluster names on which you want to deploy the application.
About this task
To route HTTP requests to applications that are deployed on other middleware servers and classify these requests to service policies, the runtime environment needs information about the application. By creating an unmanaged Web application, you create a representation of the application that is installed on the middleware server that includes this information. 智慧型管理 does not manage the life cycle of the application in any way, but can route requests to the application. The status of unmanaged Web applications is directly linked to the status of the server to which the unmanaged Web applications are deployed. The ODR can only route HTTP requests to these applications.
An unmanaged application for WebSphere Application Server Community Edition is a representation of an application that has been installed in the WebSphere Application Server Community Edition Version 1 console, specifically. With middleware discovery, an unmanaged WebSphere Application Server Community Edition application can also be a representation of a discovered application. Middleware discovery locates existing installations of WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers and their installed applications, and creates the corresponding configuration to include servers and applications in the 智慧型管理 cell.