Is there a way to automate EAR deployment in WebSphere and OracleAS?

Question

Hi,

I am looking for a solution to automate EAR deployment for OracleAS and WebSphere application servers. Can you guys suggest some open source solution for this?

Thanks, Venkat

Answer 1

What you mean by automate EAR deployment? Do you mean creating a EAR from the source code and deploying to the application server? If yes then you can use Ant to build the EAR and deploy to the application server. Maven is another option.

Answer 2

I assume you are talking about programatically deploying your EARs to the AS, so that you can later automate the process.

For WebSphere: checkout the WebSphere Control Program

For Oracle: use OC4J which enables you to integrate with ant scripts

Answer 3

For Websphere: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v5r1//index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.base.doc/info/aes/javadoc/ae/com/ibm/websphere/ant/tasks/package-summary.html

There is wsanttasks, which is a jar for ant, which will allow you to use new tasks like wsdeploy.

An e.g: http://www.javaworld.com/javaforums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=xmljava&Number=24868&page=1&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

Answer 4

You can script Websphere administrative tasks using JACL or Jython.

Here's some samples: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/samples/SampleScripts.html