URL provider settings

Configure URL providers, which support WebSphere Application Server connections to a URL over a specific protocol.

From the admin console, click Resources > URL > URL Providers > URL_provider.

Scope

Scope of this URL provider, which can support multiple URL configurations. All of the URL configurations that are supported by this provider inherit this scope.

Name

Administrative name for the URL provider.

Description

Describes the URL provider, for our administrative records.

Class path

Specifies paths or JAR file names which together form the location for the resource provider classes.

Stream handler class name

Specifies fully qualified name of a user-defined Java class that extends the java.net.URLStreamHandler class for a particular URL protocol, such as FTP.

Protocol

Protocol supported by this stream handler. For example, NNTP, SMTP, FTP.

Use URL resources within an application