July 2005

Remote deploy to Websphere – Take 3

First post is here Second Post is here This is still work in progress and needs refinement (a How-I-Did-It not a How-To). Running with Rational Application Developer 6.0.0.1 w/Interim Fix 003. Although I’ve tested the concepts, yet, I haven’t yet managed to executea compete cycle of Checkout (from CVS), Build App, Generate EAR, DeployEAR to server. I still have...

Remote Deploy to Websphere – Take 2

First post is here Third post is here I found out that the provided IBM ant tasks are designed to run from within eclipse (apparently as plugins, through a set of clicks).In order to run them as _Headless Tasks_ (IBM: “Headless” means running builds from the command line without using the WebSphere Studio or Rational Application Developer GUI) they...

Remote Deploy to Websphere – Should it be that difficult?

Second Post is here Third post is here In an effort to ease our deployment cycle, I’ve been trying to develop simple ANT scripts to deploy to a remote server running Websphere 6.0. To my joy, I found that IBM was kind enough to provide ANT tasks that take care of the deployment (wsInstall, wsadmin) [Poor me: I thought...