Exporting applications

You can export an enterprise application to a location of your choice.

Exporting applications enables you to back up your applications and preserve binding information for the applications. You might export your applications before updating installed applications or migrating to a later version of the WebSphere Application Server product.

1. Click Applications > Enterprise Applications in the console navigation tree to access the Enterprise Applications page.

2. Select the check box beside the application and click Export .

3. On the Export Application EAR Files page, click on the link to download the exported EAR file.

4. Use the browser dialogue to specify a location at which to save the exported EAR file.

   Note: User profile QEJBSVR must have *WX authority to the directory and at least *X authority to all directories in the path specified for the location.

5. Click Back to return to the Enterprise Applications page.

ResultThe file containing binding information is exported to the specified node and directory, and has the name enterprise_application_name.ear.

Related concepts
Enterprise (J2EE) applications

Related reference
Enterprise application collection