The problem I ran into with the ant tasks and Websphere 6.0 is that some of
the ant tasks only run with the special version of ant ws_ant.

(The endpoint enabler, which I use, will run with regular ant. I use it from
within maven 2 in an antrun task.)

The version 6 docs note that the ant tasks, while still present, are now
deprecated. I'm not sure what IBM is expecting to be done in this regard.

One, in particular, that requires ws_ant is the wsadmin ant task where you
pass it a jacl script. What I did was set up an external tool in eclipse to
run ws_ant.bat and pass it the jacl script to deploy. I'm not very happy
with it. I find it very difficult to find any information on such scripts.
If you undeploy an ear and it isn't deployed at this time, the script dies.
But if you try to deploy without undeploying it, the script dies. If the
last try didn't deploy right, I have to comment out the undeploy part of my
script and then remember to uncomment it when the ear deploys.

Earlier, in this news group, there was some discussion about using some
application supplied with websphere 6 (or maybe available on the IBM web
site) that can be loaded and pointed to a "magic" folder. When you drop an
ear into that folder, which isn't necessarly part of websphere or anything
else, it will get deployed. I haven't made use of that yet.

One thing I did figure out, based on searching around the web, is that
websphere 5 does not allow deploying from an ear that isn't on the same
machine as websphere. (Well ... it has to be available on the server's file
system.) What they ended up doing was ftping or scping the file onto the
server and then using wsadmin to deploy it from there. Somehow websphere 6
doesn't have this restriction but I don't need that capability and haven't
tried it.

Thanks.

-- Lee Meador

On 4/17/06, David J. M. Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Vijay Shanker skrev:
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> >Thanks Sanjay and John. I will try to follow as you suggested. One
> suggestion, I got, to use  jboss:harddeploy.
> >
> >
> I've created a plugin for generation of stub's:
> http://www.davidkarlsen.com/maven-was-plugin/
>
> Though, it does not [yet] deploy to a destination server.
>
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