Application Development

WAS supports the J2EE 1.3 specification for application components. An enterprise application is composed of application modules that work together to perform a business logic function. A J2EE-compliant application can contain any of these components:

These topics provide information about developing and assembling enterprise applications for WAS.

WAS samples gallery
This topic describes how to use the WAS samples gallery. The samples gallery provides a set of small, generic samples that show how to perform common enterprise application tasks.

Development tools
Use any application development tool that supports J2EE application development. This topic describes some of the tools that you can use to develop and assemble J2EE enterprise applications.

Develop your application
This topic describes how to develop applications for WAS.

Assemble your application
Before you can deploy your application, create a deployment descriptor for it and assemble the application components into an EAR file. This topic describes how to assemble applications for WAS.

Deploy your application
After you develop and assemble your application, you are ready to deploy it into your application server run time. This topic provides information about application deployment.