Overview of developing and deploying applications

 

Contents of this section: Developing and deploying applications

Obtaining an integrated development environment (IDE)

This topic describes how to obtain design tools and development environments for use with your WebSphere Application Server product edition.

Designing applications

This topic helps you find best practices for developing your Java 2 Platform,
Enterprise Edition (J2EE)-compliant applications.

Developing WebSphere applications

This topic provides development, assembly, and deployment instructions that are specific to various types of applications. For example, you can focus on developing Web applications or Web services; or extending your applications with the application programming interfaces of the messaging or security subsystems.

Debugging applications

This topic provides information on how to import a WebSphere Application Server program into a Java project for debugging.

Assembling applications

This topic describes how to assemble enterprise application modules (EAR files) from new or existing Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Version 1.3 or 1.4 modules, including these archives: Web application archives (WAR),
resource adapter archives (RAR), enterprise bean Java archive (JAR) files, and application client archives. This packaging and configuration of code artifacts into application modules or stand-alone Web modules is necessary for deploying the applications onto the application server.

Class loading

This topic describes how to configure class loaders. It includes both configuration performed during application assembly (packaging) and configuration performed at the server. The product run-time environment uses class loaders to find and load new classes for an application. Class loaders are part of the Java virtual machine (JVM) code and are responsible for finding and loading class files.

Deploying and administering applications

This topic describes how to deploy applications onto application servers, and then how to administer the deployed applications. It includes installing applications, starting applications, exporting application files, updating applications, removing applications, and other common tasks

Troubleshooting deployment

This topic describes how to identify and handle a variety of problems encountered during development, assembly, and deployment activities.



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