Front cover -- Contents -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Part 1 The basics -- Chapter 1. WebSphere Application Server V6 for distributed platforms -- 1.1 WebSphere overview -- 1.2 WebSphere family -- 1.3 WebSphere Application Servers -- 1.4 WebSphere Application Server for distributed platforms -- 1.4.1 Packaging -- 1.4.2 System requirements and support for distributed platforms -- 1.4.3 New for V6 -- Chapter 2. WebSphere Application Server V6 architecture -- 2.1 Application server configurations -- 2.1.1 Stand-alone server configuration -- 2.1.2 Distributed server configuration -- 2.2 Application servers, nodes, and cells -- 2.2.1 Application servers -- 2.2.2 Nodes, node groups, and node agents -- 2.2.3 Cells -- 2.3 Servers -- 2.3.1 Application servers -- 2.3.2 Clusters -- 2.3.3 JMS servers (V5) -- 2.3.4 External servers -- 2.4 Containers -- 2.4.1 Web container -- 2.4.2 Enterprise JavaBeans container -- 2.4.3 Application client container -- 2.5 Application server services -- 2.5.1 J2EE Connector Architecture services -- 2.5.2 Transaction service -- 2.5.3 Dynamic cache service -- 2.5.4 Message listener service -- 2.5.5 Object Request Broker service -- 2.5.6 Administrative service -- 2.5.7 Name service -- 2.5.8 Performance Monitoring Infrastructure service -- 2.5.9 Security service -- 2.6 Data Replication Service -- 2.7 Virtual hosts -- 2.8 Session management -- 2.8.1 HTTP Session persistence -- 2.8.2 Stateful session EJB persistence -- 2.9 Web services -- 2.9.1 Enterprise services (JCA Web services) -- 2.9.2 Web service client -- 2.9.3 Web service provider -- 2.9.4 Enterprise Web Services -- 2.9.5 IBM WebSphere UDDI Registry -- 2.9.6 Web Services Gateway -- 2.10 Service integration bus -- 2.10.1 Application support.

2.10.2 Service integration bus and messaging -- 2.10.3 Web services and the service integration bus -- 2.11 Security -- 2.11.1 User registry -- 2.11.2 Authentication -- 2.11.3 Authorization -- 2.11.4 Security components -- 2.11.5 Security flows -- 2.12 Resource providers -- 2.12.1 JDBC resources -- 2.12.2 Mail providers -- 2.12.3 JCA resource adapters -- 2.12.4 URL providers -- 2.12.5 JMS providers -- 2.12.6 Resource environment providers -- 2.13 Workload management -- 2.14 High availability -- 2.15 Administration -- 2.15.1 Administration tools -- 2.15.2 Configuration repository -- 2.15.3 Centralized administration -- 2.16 The flow of an application -- 2.17 Developing and deploying applications -- 2.17.1 Application design -- 2.17.2 Application development -- 2.17.3 Application packaging -- 2.17.4 Application deployment -- 2.17.5 WebSphere Rapid Deployment -- 2.18 Technology support summary -- Chapter 3. System management: A technical overview -- 3.1 System management overview -- 3.1.1 System management tools -- 3.1.2 System management in a standalone server environment -- 3.1.3 System management in a distributed server environment -- 3.1.4 Role-based administration -- 3.2 Java Management Extensions (JMX) -- 3.2.1 JMX architecture -- 3.2.2 JMX distributed administration -- 3.2.3 JMX MBeans -- 3.2.4 JMX usage scenarios -- 3.2.5 J2EE management -- 3.3 Distributed administration -- 3.3.1 Distributed process discovery -- 3.3.2 Centralized changes to configuration and application data -- 3.3.3 File synchronization -- 3.4 Configuration and application data repository -- 3.4.1 Repository directory structure -- 3.4.2 Variable scoped files -- 3.4.3 Application data files -- Chapter 4. Getting started with profiles -- 4.1 Understanding profiles -- 4.1.1 Types of profiles -- 4.1.2 Directory structure and default profiles -- 4.2 Building a system using profiles.

4.2.1 Standalone server environment -- 4.2.2 Distributed server environment -- 4.3 Creating profiles -- 4.3.1 Creating a deployment manager profile -- 4.3.2 Creating an application server profile -- 4.3.3 Creating a custom profile -- 4.3.4 Federating a custom node to a cell -- 4.3.5 Creating a new application server on an existing node -- 4.3.6 Federating an application server profile to a cell -- 4.4 Creating profiles manually -- 4.4.1 Using the wasprofile command -- 4.4.2 Creating a profile -- 4.5 Managing the processes -- 4.5.1 Starting a distributed server environment -- 4.5.2 Stopping the distributed server environment -- 4.5.3 Enabling process restart on failure -- Chapter 5. Administration basics -- 5.1 Introducing the WebSphere administrative console -- 5.1.1 Starting the administrative console -- 5.1.2 Logging in to the administrative console -- 5.1.3 Changing the administrative console session timeout -- 5.1.4 The graphical interface -- 5.1.5 Finding an item in the console -- 5.1.6 Updating existing items -- 5.1.7 Adding new items -- 5.1.8 Removing items -- 5.1.9 Starting and stopping items -- 5.1.10 Using variables -- 5.1.11 Saving work -- 5.1.12 Getting help -- 5.2 Securing the administrative console -- 5.3 Working with the deployment manager -- 5.3.1 Deployment manager configuration settings -- 5.3.2 Starting and stopping the deployment manager -- 5.4 Working with application servers -- 5.4.1 Creating an application server -- 5.4.2 Viewing the status of an application server -- 5.4.3 Starting an application server -- 5.4.4 Stopping an application server -- 5.4.5 Viewing runtime attributes of an application server -- 5.4.6 Customizing application servers -- 5.5 Working with nodes -- 5.5.1 Adding a node -- 5.5.2 Removing a node -- 5.5.3 Node agent synchronization -- 5.5.4 Starting and stopping nodes -- 5.5.5 Node groups.

5.6 Working with clusters -- 5.6.1 Creating clusters -- 5.6.2 Viewing cluster topology -- 5.6.3 Managing clusters -- 5.7 Working with virtual hosts -- 5.7.1 Creating a virtual host -- 5.8 Managing applications -- 5.8.1 Using the administrative console to manage applications -- 5.8.2 Installing an enterprise application -- 5.8.3 Uninstalling an enterprise application -- 5.8.4 Exporting an enterprise application -- 5.8.5 Starting an enterprise application -- 5.8.6 Stopping an enterprise application -- 5.8.7 Preventing an enterprise application from starting on a server -- 5.8.8 Viewing installed applications -- 5.8.9 Viewing EJB modules -- 5.8.10 Viewing Web modules -- 5.8.11 Finding a URL for a servlet or JSP -- 5.9 Managing your configuration files -- 5.9.1 Backing up a profile configuration -- 5.9.2 Restoring a node configuration -- 5.9.3 Exporting and importing profiles -- 5.9.4 Deleting profiles -- Chapter 6. Administration with scripting -- 6.1 Overview of WebSphere scripting -- 6.2 Using wsadmin -- 6.2.1 Launching wsadmin -- 6.2.2 Configuring wsadmin -- 6.2.3 Commands and scripts invocation -- 6.2.4 Overview of wsadmin objects -- 6.2.5 Management using wsadmin objects -- 6.3 Common operational administrative tasks using wsadmin -- 6.3.1 General approach for operational tasks -- 6.3.2 Examples of common administrative tasks -- 6.3.3 Managing the deployment manager -- 6.3.4 Managing nodes -- 6.3.5 Managing application servers -- 6.3.6 Managing enterprise applications -- 6.3.7 Managing clusters -- 6.3.8 Generating the Web server plug-in configuration -- 6.3.9 Enabling tracing for WebSphere components -- 6.4 Common configuration tasks -- 6.4.1 General approach for configuration tasks -- 6.4.2 Specific examples of WebSphere configuration tasks -- 6.5 Differences from WebSphere V5 -- 6.6 End-to-end examples -- 6.7 Using Java for administration.

Online resources -- Chapter 7. Configuring WebSphere resources -- 7.1 WebSphere resources -- 7.2 JDBC resources -- 7.2.1 What are JDBC providers and data sources? -- 7.2.2 WebSphere support for data sources -- 7.2.3 Creating a data source -- 7.2.4 Creating a JDBC provider -- 7.2.5 Creating JDBC data source -- 7.3 JCA resources -- 7.3.1 WebSphere Application Server JCA support -- 7.3.2 Installing and configuring resource adapters -- 7.3.3 Configuring J2C connection factories -- 7.3.4 Using resource adapters from an application -- 7.4 JavaMail resources -- 7.4.1 JavaMail sessions -- 7.4.2 Configuring the mail provider -- 7.4.3 Configuring JavaMail sessions -- 7.4.4 Example code -- 7.5 URL providers -- 7.5.1 Configuring URL providers -- 7.5.2 Configuring URLs -- 7.5.3 URL provider sample -- 7.6 Resource environment providers -- 7.6.1 Resource environment references -- 7.6.2 Configuring the resource environment provider -- 7.7 Resource authentication -- 7.8 More information -- Chapter 8. Managing Web servers -- 8.1 Web server support overview -- 8.1.1 Request routing using the plug-in -- 8.1.2 Web server and plug-in management -- 8.2 Web server installation examples -- 8.2.1 Standalone server environment -- 8.2.2 Distributed server environment -- 8.3 Working with Web servers -- 8.3.1 Defining nodes and Web servers -- 8.3.2 Viewing the status of a Web server -- 8.3.3 Starting and stopping a Web server -- 8.3.4 IBM HTTP Server remote administration -- 8.3.5 Mapping modules to servers -- 8.4 Working with the plug-in configuration file -- 8.4.1 Regenerating the plug-in configuration file -- 8.4.2 Propagating the plug-in configuration file -- 8.4.3 Modifying the plug-in request routing options -- Chapter 9. Problem determination -- 9.1 Resources for identifying problems -- 9.2 Administrative console messages -- 9.3 Log files -- 9.3.1 JVM (standard) logs.

9.3.2 Process (native) logs.