Joseph Amrith Raj’s Websphere Blog

In single line, Don’t buy this book, if you are looking to learn websphere 7 administration.
See my comments on chapter-by-chapter on this book

Chapter 1: Installing WebSphere Application Server

This chapter talks about only the installation of what you download from the IBM site (90days trail) base version. No details of Network deployment are discussed.

Chapter 2: Deploying [...]

Deploying an application which needs data access in websphere application server. Steps involved in this are:

* Create a JDBC source
* Create a J2C alias
* Create a Data source
* Deploy Application

To deploy applications to websphere application server, go to Applications -> New applications in the administration console.
* Here you have option to install Enterprise application or business level application or assets
* Enterprise application: An EAR file on a server configured to hold installable Web Applications, WAR, Java archives, library files, and [...]

Graphical Mode

1. Login as root
2. Then run the launchpad.sh or WAS_binaries/WAS/install
Note: if you have trouble with JAVA while installling…, Force the installation to use the correct JRE
./install -is:javahome WAS_Binaries/JDK/jre.pak/repository/package.java.jre/java/jre

3. You will get an welcome page, click on next to proceed
4. Accept the license agreement and then click next
5. This screen will check for system requirements. [...]

Establishing Encrypted Communications and Ending it
The most basic function that an SSL client and server can perform is establishing a channel for encrypted communications. Below figure shows the SSL message exchange this operation requires, and below list summarizes the steps in the figure. This section looks at these steps in more detail by considering each [...]

SSL is an acronym for Secure Sockets Layer, a global standard security technology developed by Netscape in 1994. SSL is all about encryption. It creates an encrypted link between a web server and a web browser. The link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browser remains private and secure and is [...]