Assets

An asset represents one or more application binary files stored in an asset repository. Typical assets include...

• Java EE archives
• library files
• other resource files

An asset repository stores the binary files for the asset.

The WAS configuration repository provides a default asset repository managed by the WAS management domain. Asset binary files are stored in...

APP_ROOT/config/cells/cell_name/assets/asset_name/aver/BASE/bin/

An asset name must be unique within a cell, WAS administrative domain.

WAS ND v7.0 creates a file, asset.xml, when an asset is registered with WAS configuration, that contains information about the asset such as...

• Name
• Destination location
• Dependencies on other assets

Register files as assets before adding them to one or more business-level applications. At the time of asset registration, we can either...

• Import the physical application files into the product configuration repository
• Specify an external location where the asset resides

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Related concepts

Business-level applications
Deploy business-level applications
Importing assets