Start a business-level application using programming

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Start a business-level application using programming

We can start a business-level application, which starts each composition unit in that business-level application. Each composition unit is started on the respective targets on which the business-level application is deployed.

Before beginning

Before we can start a business-level application, you must have created an empty business-level application, imported an asset, and added a composition unit to the business-level application.
We can start a business-level application using programming, the dmgr console, or wsadmin.
This task assumes a basic familiarity with command framework programming. Read about command framework programming in the application programming interfaces documentation. Specify the blaID parameter of the business-level application that you start.
Perform the following steps to start a business-level application using programming.

Connect to the application server.
The command framework allows the administrative command to be created and run with or without being connected to the application server. This step is optional if the application server is not running.
Create the command manager.
The command manager provides the functionality to create a new administrative command or query existing administrative commands.
Optionally create the asynchronous command handler for listening to command notifications.
Business-level application commands are implemented as asynchronous commands. To monitor the progress of the running command, we have to create an asynchronous command handler to receive notifications the command generates.
Create the asynchronous command client.
An asynchronous command client provides a higher level interface to work with an asynchronous command. If you created an asynchronous command handler in the previous step, the handler is passed to the asynchronous command client. The asynchronous command client forwards the command notification to the handler and helps to control running of the command.

Use the command manager created in a previous step to set up the command that starts a business-level application.
The command name is startBLA. The blaID parameter is a required parameter to specify the business-level application to start.
Call the processCommandParameters method in the asynchronous command client to process the command parameters.
The command framework asynchronous command model requires this call.
Call the asynchronous command client to run the command that starts a business-level application.
You might have created an asynchronous command handler to implement the AsyncCommandHandlerIF interface class in a previous step. If you did, the asynchronous command client listens to command notifications and forwards the notifications to the handler. The handler performs any necessary actions while waiting for the command to complete.
Check the command result when the command completes.
When the command finishes running, control is returned to the caller. We can then check the result by calling the command.getCommandResult method.

Results

After you successfully run the code, the business-level application is started.

Example

The following example shows how to start a business-level application based on the previous steps. Some statements are split on multiple lines for printing purposes.
package com.ibm.ws.management.application.task;

import java.util.Properties;

import com.ibm.websphere.management.AdminClient;
import com.ibm.websphere.management.AdminClientFactory;
import com.ibm.websphere.management.Session;
import com.ibm.websphere.management.cmdframework.AdminCommand;
import com.ibm.websphere.management.cmdframework.CommandMgr;
import com.ibm.websphere.management.cmdframework.CommandResult;
import com.ibm.websphere.management.cmdframework.CommandStep;
import com.ibm.websphere.management.cmdframework.TaskCommand;
import com.ibm.websphere.management.async.client.AsyncCommandClient;

public class startBLA {

    public static void main(String [] args) {

        try {

            // Connect to the application server.   
            // This step is optional if we use the local command             // manager. Comment out the lines to and including             // CommandMgr cmdMgr = CommandMgr.getClientCommandMgr(
            // soapClient);
            // to get the soapClient soap client if   
            // we use the local command manager.

            String host = "localhost";
            String port = "8880"; // Change to your port number if it is 
                                  // not 8880.
  
            Properties config = new Properties();
            config.put(AdminClient.CONNECTOR_HOST, host);
            config.put(AdminClient.CONNECTOR_PORT, port);
            config.put(AdminClient.CONNECTOR_TYPE,           
                       AdminClient.CONNECTOR_TYPE_SOAP);
            System.out.println("Config: " + config);
            AdminClient soapClient =                                    
                              AdminClientFactory.createAdminClient(config);
  
            // Create the command manager             CommandMgr cmdMgr = CommandMgr.getClientCommandMgr(soapClient);
  
           // Comment out the previous lines to create a client command            // manager if you are using a local command manager.
           // Uncomment the following line to create a local command            // manager:
           //
           // CommandMgr cmdMgr = CommandMgr.getCommandMgr();
           System.out.println("\nCreated command manager");
  
           // Optionally create an asynchronous command handler            // for listening to command notifications.
           // Comment out the following line if no further handling            // of command notification is required:
           AsyncCmdTaskHandler listener = new AsyncCmdTaskHandler();
  
           // Create an asynchronous command client.
  
           // Set up the session.
           String id = Long.toHexString(System.currentTimeMillis());
           String user = "content" + id;
           Session session = new Session(user, true);
      
           // If no command handler is used, replace the listener with            // null for the AsyncCommandClient object that follows.
           AsyncCommandClient asyncCmdClientHelper = new                     
           AsyncCommandClient(session, listener);
           System.out.println("\nCreated async command client");
  
           // Create the command that starts the business-level application.
           String cmdName = "startBLA";
           AdminCommand cmd = cmdMgr.createCommand(cmdName);
           cmd.setConfigSession(session); // Start a business-level
                                    //application using the session created. 
           System.out.println("\nCreated " + cmdName);
      
           // (required) Set the blaID parameter. 
           // Examples of valid formats for the blaID parameter are:     
           // - bName  
           // - blaname=bName  
           // - WebSphere:blaname=bName
           // This parameter 
           // accepts an incomplete ID as long as the incomplete 
           // ID can resolve to a unique business-level application.
           String blaID = "bla1";
           cmd.setParameter("blaID", blaID);
        
           System.out.println("\nSet blaID parameter to "
                            + cmd.getParameter("blaID"));
      
           // Call asynchronous client helper to process parameters.
           try {              
              asyncCmdClientHelper.processCommandParameters(cmd);
              System.out.println("\nCompleted process command " + 
                                          "parameters");
           } catch (Throwable th) {
              System.out.println("Failed from " + 
                  "asyncCmdClientHelper.processCommandParameters(cmd).");
              th.printStackTrace();
              System.exit(-1);
           }
           
           // Call the asynchronous command client to run the command command.
           asyncCmdClientHelper.execute(cmd);
           System.out.println("\nCompleted running the command");
         
           // Check the command result.
           CommandResult result = cmd.getCommandResult();
           if (result != null) {
              if (result.isSuccessful()) {
                  System.out.println("\nCommand ran successfully "
                                 + "with result\n" + result.getResult());
              } 
              else {
                  System.out.println("\nCommand ran with " + 
                                            "Exception");
                  result.getException().printStackTrace();
              }
           }
     } catch (Exception e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
     }
  }}


package com.ibm.ws.management.application.task;

import com.ibm.websphere.management.cmdframework.provider.CommandNotification;
import com.ibm.websphere.management.async.client.AsyncCommandHandlerIF;

public class AsyncCmdTaskHandler implements AsyncCommandHandlerIF {

    public void handleNotification(CommandNotification notification) {
        // Add our own code here to handle the received notification
        System.out.println("\nEXAMPLE: notification received: " +   
                            notification);
    }}
What to do next

Your users can access the business-level application that you started.

Related concepts:

Additional Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

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Reference

BLAManagement command group for AdminTask using wsadmin.sh

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