WAS v8.5 > Deploy applications > Deploy business-level applications > Business-level applicationsAssets
An asset represents one or more application binary files stored in an asset repository. Typical assets include application business logic such as Java EE archives, library files, and other resource files.
An asset repository stores the binary files for the asset. WAS v8.5 configuration repository provides a default asset repository.
Assets in the configuration repository are managed by the product management domain. The configuration repository stores asset binary files in app_server_root/config/cells/cell_name/assets/asset_name/aver/BASE/bin/.
An asset name must be unique within a cell, the product administrative domain.
WAS v8.5 creates an asset.xml file when an asset is registered with the product configuration. The file contains information about the asset such as its name, destination location, and dependencies on other assets.
You must register files as assets before we can add them to one or more business-level applications. At the time of asset registration, we can import the physical application files into the product configuration repository or we can specify an external location where the asset resides.
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