Quick Start for WebSphere Liberty Profile – Deploying a WAR

Download the WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Alpha Liberty Profile from:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/wasdev/entry/download?lang=en

Create a new web app using maven:
http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-webapp.html

Unzip the server:

dims@dims-desktop:~$ unzip -q Downloads/was4d-20110927-1211.zip


Let’s use the default server for deploying our war

dims@dims-desktop:~$ cd was4d/usr/servers/defaultServer/


See which features are enabled

dims@dims-desktop:~/was4d/usr/servers/defaultServer$ cat server.xml
<server description="new server">

<!-- Enable features -->
<!--
<featureManager>
<feature>servlet-3.0</feature>
</featureManager>
-->

</server>


Add support for servlet and jsp’s

dims@dims-desktop:~/was4d/usr/servers/defaultServer$ vi server.xml


dims@dims-desktop:~/was4d/usr/servers/defaultServer$ cat server.xml
<server description="new server">

<!-- Enable features -->
<featureManager>
<feature>servlet-3.0</feature>
<feature>jsp-2.2</feature>
</featureManager>

</server>


Create a directory for dropping in our WAR

dims@dims-desktop:~/was4d/usr/servers/defaultServer$ mkdir dropins
dims@dims-desktop:~/was4d/usr/servers/defaultServer$ cd dropins/
dims@dims-desktop:~/was4d/usr/servers/defaultServer/dropins$ cp ~/my-webapp.war .
dims@dims-desktop:~/was4d/usr/servers/defaultServer/dropins$ cd ../../../..


Start the server

dims@dims-desktop:~/was4d$ date
Sat Oct 8 13:50:50 EDT 2011


dims@dims-desktop:~/was4d$ bin/was4d start
Starting defaultServer ...
OK.


Let’s see how long it took…just a few seconds.

dims@dims-desktop:~/was4d$ date
Sat Oct 8 13:50:56 EDT 2011


That’s it, point your browser to http://localhost:9080/my-webapp/

More information can be found at:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/wasdev/entry/announcing_the_was_v8_5_alpha1?lang=en

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