Re: [WDSCI-L] Re: EAR/WAR Deployment

["Mark Phippard" <MarkP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

As as software vendor, I am able to create an EAR/WAR file with everything 
exactly the way I want it, and I am then able to allow the customer to 
install my application using the wizard or procedure appropriate for their 
application server.  I think that is easier for the customer.

In your case I imagine that you have a command that does the updates.  For 
your command to work correctly now, the user must have to provide the name 
of their WAS instance as well as their WAS version, otherwise you would be 
hard-coding and we know you do not like that.  You then just need to know 
the cell name.  You could ask the user using a parm on your command 
prompt, or you could figure it out programmatically.  For WAS Express, I 
believe the cell name will always be their system name followed by an 
underscore and then the instance name.  I would probably have a parm on my 
command that has a default value of *DEFAULT or something like that which 
caused me to figure it out programmatically.

Mark