Barry Searle is the architect for WebSphere Tools for Automated Build and Deployment. A professional engineer, he has worked at the IBM Canada Lab for over 15 years on various application development tools. Prior to that he worked on developing command and control systems, and leading complex communications development projects.
This two-part article discusses application deployment, particularly
automated updates, to IBM WebSphere Application Servers in a large-scale
enterprise environment. It applies to versions 5.0, 5.1, and 6.0, and also
includes an introduction to a few version 6.0 enhancements. This article is
not intended to be used as a reference for all the details of WebSphere
Application Server administration, but it does describe the key concepts
used, and contains a list of references. Although the beginning of the
article reviews some fairly basic base server and managed server concepts and
operations, much of the remainder of the article will discuss certain complex
concepts or operational considerations that will be new even to very
experienced enterprise application server admi... (more)
This two-part article discusses application deployment, particularly
automated updates, to IBM WebSphere Application Server in a large-scale
enterprise environment. It applies to Application Server versions 5.0, 5.1,
and 6.0, and also includes an introduction to a few version 6.0 enhancements.
This article is not intended to be used as a reference for all the details of
Application Serve... (more)
Barry Searle is the architect for WebSphere Tools for Automated Build and Deployment. A professional engineer, he has worked at the IBM Canada Lab for over 15 years on various application development tools. Prior to that he worked on developing command and control systems, and leading complex communications development projects.
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