Creating business-level applications

You can create an empty business-level application and then add assets, shared libraries, business-level applications, and other artifacts as composition units to the empty business-level application.

Before you begin

Configure each target application server as needed. You must deploy a business-level application to a Version 7.0 or later server.

Optionally, determine what assets or other files that you want to add to your business-level application and whether your application files can run on your deployment targets.

About this task

You can create business-level applications using the administrative console or the wsadmin tool.

Procedure

  1. Select a way to create your business level application.
    Table 1. Ways to create business level applications . You can create business-level applications using the administrative console, programming, or wsadmin.
    Option Method
    Administrative console business-level application creation wizard

    See Creating business-level applications with the console.

    		 Click Applications > New application > New Business-level Application and follow instructions in the wizard.
    Administrative console Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application installation wizard Click Applications > New application > New Enterprise Application and follow instructions in the wizard.

    The product creates a new business-level application with the enterprise application that you install or makes the enterprise application a composition unit of an existing business-level application. See the Business-level application name setting on the Select installation options wizard page.
    wsadmin scripts

    See Setting up business-level applications using wsadmin scripting.

    		 Use the wsadmin scripting tool to create an empty business-level application.
  2. Create your business-level application using the administrative console or wsadmin.
  3. Save the changes to your administrative configuration.

Results

The name of the application is shown in the list on the Business-level applications page.

What to do next

After you create a business-level application, you can do the following to add composition units to it:

  1. Import any assets needed by your business-level application.
  2. Add assets, shared libraries, or other business-level applications as composition units.
  3. Save the changes to your administrative configuration.
  4. Start the business-level application.

If the application does not run as wanted, edit the application configuration, then save and run it again.