About websphere

and if i'm not mistaken, you'll need an ear, it won't accept a war file (pretty sure)

SoulTech2012a at 2007-7-29 18:50:55 >

it's possible to deploy a WAR on WebSphere, but not recommended by IBM ... Been a while since I've used websphere but I do recall an option to deploy only a WAR.

m_roznera at 2007-7-29 18:50:55 >

> Of course you can deploy a war file to Websphere (and

> any J2EE application server - it's part of the spec)

You obviously aren't familiar with IBM's practices. :-)

SoulTech2012a at 2007-7-29 18:50:55 >

> well... perhaps a poor choice of words there, the

> server fully supports deploying a WAR and it will

> work just fine, but "IBM practices" would encourage

> you to put everything into an EAR.

Can you please point me to these "IBM practices" which encourage web applications to be packaged as EAR files?

tsitha at 2007-7-29 18:50:55 >

> I'm not going to search the earth to find out exactly

> which version of websphere it was or what not. but i

> didn't just make this up. of course i know the spec

> says you can create a war. but as i recall a

> particular version of websphere would neither produce

> nor consume a war file because it was retarded.

k. It is my hope that m_rozner's memory is better. So, you're telling me that some version of the WebSphere application server could not deploy a WAR, but rather would deploy an EAR, which is simply a WAR and some jars bundled together with an extra xml file or two?

Interesting.

tsitha at 2007-7-29 18:50:55 >