launchClient tool

launchClient tool

This page describes the Java EE command line syntax for the launchClient tool for WAS.
You can use the launchClient command from a node within an ND environment. However, do not attempt to use the launchClient command from the Deployment Manager.
All users who run commands from a specific profile must have authority to modify files that are created by other users that use the same profile. Otherwise, we might see a permission denied error in the log files. To avoid this issue, consider one of the following policies:

Use specific profiles for distinct user authorities
Always use the same user for all of the commands that are run in a given profile
Ensure that all users of a specific profile belong to the same group. In addition, ensure that each user of a group has the read and write authority to the files that are created by other members in the same profile.

The following example illustrates the command line invocation syntax for the launchClient tool:
launchClient [-profileName pName | -JVMOptions options | -help | -?] <userapp> [-CC<name>=<value>] [app args]
where

userapp is the path and the name of the EAR file that contains the application client.
-CC<name>=<value> is the client container name-value pair parameter. See the client container parameters section, for supported name-value pair arguments.
app args are arguments that pass to the application client.
-profileName defines the profile of the appserver process in a multi-profile installation. The -profileName option is not required for running in a single profile environment or in an Application Clients installation.
The default is default_profile.
-JVMOptions is a valid Java standard or nonstandard option string, except -cp or -classpath. Insert quotation marks around the string.
-help, -? prints the usage information.

The first parameter must be -help, -? or contain no parameter at all. The -profileName pName and -JVMOptions options are optional parameters. If used, they must appear before the <userapp> parameter.
All other parameters are optional and can appear in any order after the <userapp> parameter. The Java EE Application client run time ignores any optional parameters that do not begin with a -CC prefix and passes those parameters to the application client.

Client container parameters

Supported arguments include:

-CCadminConnectorHost

Host name of the server from which configuration information is retrieved.
The default is the value of the -CCBootstrapHost parameter or the value, localhost, if the -CCBootstrapHost parameter is not specified.

-CCadminConnectorPort

Port number for the admin client function to use. The default value is 8880 for SOAP connections and 2809 for RMI connections.

-CCadminConnectorType

How the admin client connects to the server. Specify RMI to use the RMI connection type, or specify SOAP to use the SOAP connection type. The default value is SOAP.

-CCadminConnectorUser

Administrative clients use this user name when a server requires authentication. If the connection type is SOAP, and security is enabled on the server, this parameter is required.

-CCadminConnectorPassword

The password for the user name that the -CCadminConnectorUser parameter specifies.

-CCaltDD

The name of an alternate deployment descriptor file. This parameter is used with the -CCjar parameter to specify the deployment descriptor to use. Use this argument when a client JAR file is configured with more than one deployment descriptor. Set the value to null to use the client JAR file standard deployment descriptor.

-CCBootstrapHost

The name of the host server you want to connect to initially. The format is: my_server_of_choice.com

-CCBootstrapPort

The server port number. If we do not specify this argument, the WAS default value is used.

-CCclassLoaderMode

Class loader mode. If PARENT_LAST is specified, the class loader loads classes from the local class path before delegating the class loading to its parent. The classes loaded for the following are affected:

Classes defined for the Java EE application client
Resources defined in the Java EE application
Classes specified on the manifest of the Java EE client JAR file
Classes specified using the -CCclasspath option

If PARENT_LAST is not specified, then the default mode, PARENT_FIRST, causes the class loader to delegate the loading of classes to its parent class loader before attempting to load the class from its local class path.

-CCclasspath

A class path value. When you launch an application, the system class path is used. To access classes that are not in the EAR file or part of the system class paths, specify the appropriate class path here. Multiple paths can be concatenated.

-CCD

Use this option to have the WAS set the specified system property during initialization. Do not use the equals (=) character after the -CCD. For example: -CCDcom.ibm.test.property=testvalue. We can specify multiple -CCD parameters. The general format of this parameter is -CCD<property key>=<property value>. For example, -CCDI18NService.enable=true.

-CCdumpJava NameSpace

Controls generation of a dump of the java: name space for the application that is launched, which can be used for debugging purposes. A value of true generates a dump in short format, and includes the name and object type for each binding.
A value of long generates a dump in long format, and includes additional information for each binding over short format, such as the local object type and string representation of the local object. The default value is false, and does not generate a dump.

-CCexitVM

Use this option to have the WAS call the System.exit() method after the client application completes. The default is false.

-CCinitonly

Use this option to initialize application client run time for ActiveX application clients without launching the client application. The default is false.

-CCjar

The name of the client JAR file residings within the EAR file for the application you wish to launch. Use this argument when we have multiple client JAR files in the EAR file.

-CCpropfile

Name of a properties file that contains launchClient properties. Specify the properties without the -CC prefix in the file, with the exception of the securityManager, securityMgrClass and securityMgrPolicy properties. See the following example: verbose=true.

-CCproviderURL

Provides bootstrap server information that the initial context factory can use to obtain an initial context. WAS initial context factory can use either a Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) object URL or an IIOP URL. CORBA object URLs are more flexible than IIOP URLs and are the recommended URL format to use. This value can contain more than one bootstrap server address. This feature can be used when attempting to obtain an initial context from a server cluster. We can specify bootstrap server addresses, for all servers in the cluster, in the URL. The operation will succeed if at least one of the servers is running, eliminating a single point of failure. The address list does not process in a particular order. For naming operations, this value overrides the -CCBootstrapHost and -CCBootstrapPort parameters. A CORBA object URL specifying multiple systems is illustrated in the following example:
-CCproviderURL=corbaloc:iiop:myserver.mycompany.com:9810,:mybackupserver.mycompany.com:2809
This value is mapped to the java.naming.provider.url system property.

-CCsecurityManager

Enables and runs the WAS with a security manager. The default is disable.

-CCsecurityMgrClass

Fully qualified name of a class that implements a security manager. Only use this argument if the -CCsecurityManager parameter is set to enable. The default is java.lang.SecurityManager.

-CCsecurityMgrPolicy

Name of a security manager policy file. Only use this argument if the -CCsecurityManager parameter is set to enable. When you enable this parameter, the java.security.policy system property is set. The default is <APP_ROOT>/ properties/client.policy.

-CCsoapConnectorPort

The SOAP connector port. If we do not specify this argument, the WAS default value is used.

-CCtrace

Use this option to obtain debug trace information. We might need this information when reporting a problem to IBM customer support. The default is false.
See, read the topic " Enable trace."

-CCtracefile

Indicates the name of the file to which trace information is written. The default is to write output to the console.

-CCtraceMode

Trace format to use for tracing. If the valid value, basic, is not specified the default is advanced. Basic tracing format is a more compact form of tracing.
For more information on basic and advanced trace formatting, see Interpreting trace output.

-CCverbose

This option displays additional information messages. The default is false.

For an EJB client application with security enabled, edit sas.client.props, which is located in...
profile_root/properties

Within the file, change the com.ibm.CORBA.loginSource value to none.
For more information on the sas.client.props utility, see PropFilePasswordEncoder command reference.

RMI connection with security. Used with the EJB and admin client application.

Jacl...
wsadmin -conntype RMI -port rmiportnumber -user userid -password password

Jython...
wsadmin -lang jython -conntype RMI -port rmiportnumber -user userid -password password

rmiportnumber for the connection displays in the admin console as BOOTSTRAP_ADDRESS.
On the AIX, HP-UX, Linux, i5/OS, Solaris, and z/OS operating systems, the use of -password option may result in security exposure as the password information becomes visible to the system status program, such as ps command, which can be invoked by other users to display all of the running processes. Do not use this option if security exposure is a concern. Instead, specify user and password information in the soap.client.props file for SOAP connector or sas.client.props file for RMI connector. The soap.client.props and sas.client.props files are located in the properties directory of the WAS profile.
If Kerberos (KRB5) is enabled for administrative authentication, the authentication target supports BasicAuth and KRB5. To use KRB5, update the sas.client.props, soap.client.props, and ipc.client.props files, according to the connector type.
When using Kerberos authentication, the user password does not flow across the wire. A one-way hash of password is used to identify the client.

Example

The following examples demonstrate correct syntax.

(Windows)
launchClient c:\earfiles\myapp.ear -CCBootstrapHost=myWASServer -CCverbose=true app_parm1 app_parm2

(UNIX) ./launchClient.sh /usr/earfiles/myapp.ear -CCBootstrapHost=myWASServer -CCverbose=true app_parm1 app_parm2

Related tasks

Specifying the directory for an expanded EAR file