IBM(R) WebSphere(R): Deployment and Advanced Configuration (Information Management) (Hardcover)

by Roland Barcia (Author), Bill Hines (Author), Tom Alcott (Author), Keys Botzum (Author)

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The expert guide to deploying and managing any WebSphere Application Server V5.x application and environment

If you’re a WebSphere Application Server administrator or developer, this is your advanced guide for delivering applications rapidly, running them smoothly, and administering them efficiently. Four leading IBM consultants draw on their years of experience to illuminate the key steps involved in taking WebSphere Application Server applications from development to production. They focus on the areas most crucial to success, including application assembly and build, application and infrastructure configuration and administration, and application testing and verification. Along the way, they show how to implement automated deployment processes that can be executed frequently, reliably, and quickly -- so you can get your applications to market fast. The focus is on WebSphere Application Server Version 5.1, but much of the information applies to other versions.

Coverage includes:

Installing, testing, and managing WebSphere Application Server environments: clustering, security, messaging, integration, and more
Deploying and managing key J2EE technologies: JDBC, Connectors, EJB, container managed and message driven beans, transactions, JMS, JavaMail, and more
Deploying highly available, scalable multi-node WebSphere Application Server environments: clustering, distributed session management, and edge components
Advanced considerations: working with Java Management Extensions, caching, and much more
Performance tuning tools
Troubleshooting
Leveraging key WebSphere deployment and administration tools: ANT, wsadmin, Admin Console, and the Application Server Toolkit.
Advanced discussions of J2EE and architectural concepts you need to deploy successfully -- with practical examples

From the Back Cover

The expert guide to deploying and managing any WebSphere Application Server V5.x application and environment

If you're a WebSphere Application Server administrator or developer, this

is your advanced guide for delivering applications rapidly, running them smoothly, and administering them efficiently. Four leading IBM consultants draw on their years of experience to illuminate the key steps involved in taking WebSphere Application Server applications from development to production. They focus on the areas most crucial to success, including application assembly and build, application and infrastructure configuration and administration, and application testing and verification. Along the way, they show how to implement automated deployment processes that can be executed frequently, reliably, and quickly—so you can get your applications to market fast. The focus is on WebSphere Application Server Version 5.1, but much of the information applies to other versions.

Coverage includes

• Installing, testing, and managing WebSphere Application Server environments: clustering, security, messaging, integration, and more
• Deploying and managing key J2EE technologies: JDBC, Connectors, EJB, container managed and message driven beans, transactions, JMS, JavaMail, and more
• Deploying highly available, scalable multi-node WebSphere Application Server environments: clustering, distributed session management, and edge components
• Advanced considerations: working with Java Management Extensions, caching, and much more
• Performance-tuning tools
• Troubleshooting
• Leveraging key WebSphere deployment and administration tools: ANT, wsadmin, Admin Console, and the Application Server Toolkit
• Advanced discussions of J2EE and architectural concepts you need to deploy successfully—with practical examples

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 720 pages
• Publisher: IBM Press (September 5, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131468626
• ISBN-13: 978-0131468627
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #465,092 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Transition a sysadmin?, September 27, 2004

By	W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This book is basically a sequel to another recent text, "IBM WebSphere System Administration". Here, Barcia et al focus on the problems involved in deploying a WebSphere application. It may be heavily used, within a large company, say, or exposed to many queries from users coming from anywhere on the Internet. They point out that numerous books exist to aid developers of J2EE applications, but relatively few on how you would then deploy and continually administer those applications. Partly, this imbalance is due to the container-specific nature of the latter texts. As shown here. The book has a comprehensive discussion of how to manage a WebSphere. But relatively little carries over to running JBoss or Oracle's 10g server, for example.

A useful feature of the book is how it can help a regular sysadmin make the transition to being a WebSphere sysadmin. A possible upward career move. The knowledge here is more specialised than that for running a generic AIX or linux cluster. But there is enough overlap in some topics to make it a logical move. For example, the book talks about the WAS network deployment architecture. Essentially, it is for load balancing and redundancy. The natural purview of your sysadmin.

Also, if you're not a sysadmin, but an IT manager facing WebSphere deployment issues, you may want to consider redeploying a sysadmin here. Show her this book and see if she's interested.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The answer to "So we have written the code, now what!?!?", November 9, 2004

By	Jordan Miller (Kansas City, MO) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

"IBM Websphere: Deployment and Advanced Configuration" provides a single reference for your organization's IT staff to design and most importantly, use J2EE applications and technologies.

The most useful concepts learned from this book were how to automate so many tedious processes that are bound to the development and deployment cycle. The text provides a great starting point for understanding surrounding technologies like ANT and wsadmin. Implementing these automated processes has saved time and eliminated errors.

Aside from recommending best practice deployment concepts, the text provides a hefty resource on application server settings as well. This book has been such a blessing in its ability to provide not only the "how" we enable or modify a setting, but also answers the "why" we would want to do such a thing.

Finally, the text does an excellent job conveying information regarding J2EE technologies and advanced server configurations to provide high availability systems, performance increases, and security hardening.

This book is a must have for any enterprise running J2EE architectures and doubly so if you are using IBM Websphere.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Have for WebSphere Administrators, September 16, 2004

By	Robert S. Garnero (Mountain View, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Finally, we have in one reference, all of the important considerations that must be taken into account, when deploying and administering WebSphere applications. The book is based on the deep subject matter expertise of the authors, but more importantly, also on their significant engagement experience over the last 5 years with WebSphere clients. While the book is sufficiently rich in technical detail, so as to appeal to even the most experienced WebSphere administrators, the authors write with an engaging style that can provide knowledge and insight for the most novice of readers. Finally, there is much in the way of J2EE best practice that would well serve J2EE developers.