IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 Administration Guide

496 Pages·2011·17.23 MB·English

by  Steve Robinson

IBM WebSphere Application
Server 8.0 Administration Guide
Learn to administer a reliable, secure, and scalable
environment for running applications with IBM
WebSphere Application Server 8.0
Steve Robinson
professional expertise distilled
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About the Author
Steve Robinson is an independent WebSphere specialist and consultant. He has
been consulting in the IT field since 1997 and has been involved in client projects
around the globe; many of which are for Fortune 500 companies.
Steve started out originally as a consultant in the IBM Lotus Notes/Domino product
suite, where he excelled in middleware integration technologies to ensure that
homogenous environments could exist in the new heterogeneous world. Having
worked for many different industries, Steve has had a plethora of experience in the
integration of most technologies across many different systems and cultures. He is also
an accomplished programmer in C, Java, and the Microsoft .NET development tools.
Steve has gleaned a lot of insight due to the amount of large enterprise projects he
has been involved with and his passion for documentation and process improvement
is recognized by all those he works with.
Steve is married and lives with his family in England. He spends his time either
writing or researching new products and technologies for client projects along with
investigating new ways to automate processes where possible.
Steve is also known for his contribution to the WebSphere Internet community
through one of his many top-ranking WebSphere knowledge portals: www.
webspheretools.com.
Acknowledgement
To my loving wife and "bestest buddy" Jacqui; without you I would not be the
person I am today. You keep me grounded, while I dream my biggest dreams. To
my family; thanks for all your continued encouragement and belief in me and for
constantly reminding me that not everything in life is work.
I thank the reviewers for their contributions. Thanks guys, you helped me ensure
that the content was accurate.
I would also like to thank the staff at Packt Publishing who helped me keep my
writing in form and to the point.
About the Reviewers
Dave Hay is a Portal and Collaboration Architect with IBM Software Services for
Lotus (ISSL). He has been responsible for the design and delivery of IT solutions for
some of IBM's major UK customers. Dave's work is mainly focused on the role of the
Infrastructure Solution Architecture, and he has experience with many of the core
components that would comprise a portal or collaboration solution.
Dave has worked in a variety of roles with IBM since 1992, and has been with IBM
Software Group since 2000. He has worked with WebSphere Application Server for
much of that time, starting with v3 and covering a number of platforms, including
AIX, OS/400, Linux, and Windows.
Jacek Laskowski has over 15 years of IT experience having focused on software
development and architecture design in open source and commercial projects.
He's interested in Service Oriented Architecture with Java Enterprise Edition,
Business Process Management, and Business Rule Management System solutions.
He is a seasoned technology professional with a strong software development and
advisory track record. His interests revolve around Java Enterprise Edition (Java
EE) and supportive solutions, be them runtime environments or specifications, like
Enterprise OSGi, Service Component Architecture (SCA), WS-BPEL, and WS-BPMN,
to name a few.
He is a leader of the Warszawa Java User Group and has been a speaker at local and
international conferences. He has been organizing Confitura (formerly Javarsovia)
and Warsjawa conferences for the Polish Java community. He contributes to open
source projects such as Apache OpenEJB and Apache Geronimo. He envisages
himself using functional languages in projects and the decision to learn Clojure
(possibly JRuby and Scala) influences his current self-learning activities.
Sharing knowledge is his passion. He mentors students in the IBM Education
Student Internship (ESI) program. He is an author of IBM Redbooks publications
and has contributed to a few others as a technical reviewer. While supporting
business partners and customers with their use of IBM WebSphere BPM products, he
regularly runs courses and workshops in Poland and abroad. He is a member of the
NetBeans Dream Team–highly-skilled and motivated NetBeans users.
He actively blogs at http://blog.japila.pl and http://blog.jaceklaskowski.
pl. You can also follow him at @jaceklaskowski on Twitter.
I'd like to thank my family–my wife, Agata, and 2 kids, Iweta and
Patryk – for their constant support, encouragement and patience.
It was them who kept me considering other activities, besides
spending time hacking, reading computer books or blogging.

Love you all so much!
Meenakshi Verma has been part of the IT industry since 1998. She is experienced
in putting up solutions across multiple industry segments using SAP BI, SAP
Business Objects, and Java/J2EE technologies. She is currently based in Toronto,
Canada and is working with a leading utility company.
Meenakshi has been helping with technical reviews for books published by Packt
Publishing across varied enterprise solutions. Her earlier work includes JasperReports
for Java Developers, Java EE 5 Development using GlassFish Application Server, Practical
Data Analysis and Reporting with BIRT, EJB 3 Developer's Guide, Learning DOJO, and
WebSphere Application Server.
I'd like to thank my father (Mr. Bhopal Singh) and mother (Mrs. Raj
Bala) for giving me a strong foundation and their unconditional love
and support. I am also grateful to my husband (Atul Verma) for his
encouragement and support throughout the review of this book and
many others, my four year old son (Prieyaansh Verma) for giving me
the warmth of his love, despite my hectic schedules, and my brother
(Sachin Singh) for always being there for me.
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: WebSphere Application Server 8.0: Product Overview 7
What is WebSphere Application Server? 8
Why choose IBM WebSphere Application Server? 9
Enhancements and capabilities 10
Support for industry standards 10
New features 13
Reference table for supported standards 15
Architecture and internals 16
JEE 6 Server architecture model 17
Java EE containers 17
Inside WebSphere Application Server 20
JVM 21
Web container 21
EJB container 22
Virtual hosts 22
Environment settings 22
Resources 23
JNDI 23
Application file types 24
WebSphere Application Server terminology 26
Runtime binaries 26
Profiles 26
Cells 26
Nodes 27
Servers 28
WebSphere Application Server products 28
Product editions 28