Is there a simpler way to deploy to WebSphere?

Question

I have seen this question about deploying to WebSphere using the WAS ant tasks.

Is there a simpler way to do this? In the past I have deployed to Tomcat by dropping a war file into a directory. I was hoping there would be a similar mechanism for WebSphere that doesn't involve calling the IBM libraries or rely on RAD to be installed on your workstation.

Answer 1

Just a hint: if you activate "Log command assistance commands" in System Administration / Console preferences, you will get a logfile in the server log directory that contains the jython scripts for all actions you did on the console. So you can just deploy your stuff per console the first time, and then grab the commands for later and feed them into wsadmin.bat -lang jython "thecommandscomehere" for the next deployment.

Answer 2

There is the concept of WebSphere Rapid Deployment. It's supposed to be the same experience as what you describe for Tomcat.