Deploy web application without using Websphere deployment manager

Question

Every time when our development team modifies a Web application's source code, we need to build a EAR, login to WebSphere's deployment manager, update the the whole application in our testing server and start the application again.

But sometimes the change may only involve a single Java file. Are there any alternative ways to deploy the change to the testing server to speed up our development life cycle like just copy the XXX.class to a particular location in the WebSphere folder?

Answer 1

You can do what is known as Hot Deployment for Websphere applications. But in this you would not be changing/deploying a .class file, at the very least you would need a .jar file which is changing. But the procedure to have this set up is closely bound with the Application in question. And it cannot be put into a single post on StackOverflow, since it would belong on a tutorial website and this is not one.

I suggest you read about Hot Deployment on IBM Knowledge center. This would help you cause, if you are willing to follow the steps in the the page.

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