Liberty: application client commands

The client command supports create, run, debug, package and help actions.

Syntax

The wlp/bin directory contains scripts called client and client.bat to help with running client applications. Syntax:

client <action> client_name [options]

where the value of action represents the operation we can perform on an application client. Attention: If an application client name is not specified on the command line, the task is taken against the default application client instance, defaultClient.

Actions

The client script supports the following actions:

create	Create a new application client.
run	Launch the application client in the foreground.
debug	Run the named application client in the console foreground after a debugger connects to the debug port. The default port is 7778.
package	Package an application client.
help	Get command-line script help, including details of more options.

Options

--archive="/path/to/archive_file.zip"	Specify the archive target to be generated by the package action. We can specify the target as an absolute path or as a relative path. If this option is omitted, the archive file is created in the client output directory. The target file name extension might influence the format of the generated archive. The default archive format for the package action is pax on z/OS and zip on all other platforms. The jar archive format produces a self-extracting jar file that similar to the original installer archive.
--clean	Clean all cached information related to this client instance.
--include=value,value,...	A comma-delimited list of values. The valid values vary depending on the action.
template="templateName"	Specify the name of the template to use when creating a new client.
--autoAcceptSigner	Automatically accept and store the signer certificate in the client truststore without being prompted to examine the server certificate.

Example

Show the application client command actions we can run on Windows

client.bat create client_name

client.bat run client_name
client.bat help

Show the application client command actions we can run on other systems:

client create client_name
client run client_name
client help