Network Deployment (Distributed operating systems), v8.0 > Develop and deploying applications
Develop Work area
This page provides a starting point for finding information about work areas, a WebSphere extension for improving developer productivity.
Work areas provide a capability much like that of global variables. They enable efficient sharing of information across a distributed application.
For example, you might want to add profile information as each customer enters the application. By placing this information in a work area, it is available throughout the application, eliminating the need to hand-code a solution or to read and write information to a database.
- Develop applications that use work areas
- Configure work area partitions
- Configure work area partitions
- Work area partition service
The work area partition service is an extension of the work area service that allows the creation of multiple custom work areas. The work area partition service is an optional service to users. Any user that currently uses the work area service and the UserWorkArea partition can continue using it in the same manner. The UserWorkArea partition is created automatically (if it has not been disabled) by the work area partition service. By allowing a user the option to create their own work area partition through the work area partition service, they can have more control over configuration and access to their partition.
- The Work area partition manager interface
Applications interact with the work area partition service by using the work area partition manager interface. A user can retrieve an instance of the work area partition manager interface out of naming and use the methods that are defined in the following section.
- Example: Using the work area partition manager
- Work area partition collection
Use this page to manage the work area service.
- Access a user defined work area partition
- Propagate work area context over Web services
WAS v6.1 introduces the option to propagate work area context on a Web service call. Prior to WAS v6.1, work area context was only propagated over RMI/IIOP calls. The work area API have not changed to implement this propagation. We can use the work area APIs as they have in the past and as outlined in the work area documentation. However, by default, work area context is not propagated on a Web service call, enable this option.
Administer Work area
Work area
Tune Work area