Deploying a data access application includes more than
installing your web application archive (WAR) or enterprise archive
(EAR) file onto a server. Deployment can include tasks for configuring
your application to use the data access resources of the server and
overall runtime environment.
Before you begin
You can deploy only application code that is assembled into
the appropriate modules. See the topic, Assembling data access applications
for guidelines, for this process.
About this task
Perform the following steps if your application requires
access to a relational database (RDB). When your application requires
access to a different type of enterprise information system (EIS),
such as an object-oriented database or the Customer Information Control
System (CICS®), consult the
topics, Relational resource adapters and JCA, and Accessing data using Java™ EE Connector Architecture connectors.
Procedure
- If your RDB configuration does not exist, do the following
steps:
- Create a database to hold the data.
- Create tables required by your application.
- If your application uses container managed persistence (CMP) entity
beans to access the data
- You can create the tables using the data definition language (DDL)
generated from the enterprise bean configuration. For more information,
see the topic, Recreating database tables from the exported table
data definition language.
- If your application uses bean managed persistence (BMP) entity
beans, or does not use entity beans
- You must use your database server interfaces to create the tables.
The Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
to RDB Mapping wizard of an assembly tool is also used to create your
database tables for either type of entity bean. Select the top-down
mapping option in the wizard. However, this option does not give you
direct control in naming the RDB elements or choosing column types.
Additionally, because the top-down process is automatic, it might
not provide mappings to reflect the precise relationships that you
intend.
If you use Rational® Application
Developer, consult the documentation about the mapping wizard.
To learn about all of your assembly tool options, see the assembly
tools topic in this documentation.
- Check the data source minimum required settings by vendor
to see any database vendor requirements for connecting to an application
server. See the topic, Data source minimum required settings, by vendor,
for instructions.
- Optional: Map your entity beans to the database
tables through the meet-in-the-middle mapping option of an assembly
tool.
Complete this step only if you did not create your
database schema through the top-down mapping option, did not generate
your mapping relationships through bottom-up mapping, or did not generate
mappings during the application assembly process. For information
about the top-down mapping option see the documentation for Rational Application Developer.
- Install your application onto the application server.
See the topic, Installing enterprise application files. When
you install the application, you can alter data access settings that
were made during application assembly, or, if they were omitted from
the assembly process, set them for the first time. These settings
include resource bindings and resource authentication aliases, which
are addressed in the following substeps:
- Bind application resource references to the data sources,
or other resource objects, that provide database connectivity.
For details on the concept of binding, see the topic, Data source
lookups for enterprise beans and web modules.
Tip: After
deployment, you can use the WebSphere® Application
Server administrative console to alter resource bindings. Click , and select the link to the appropriate mapping page.
For example, if you want to alter the binding of an EJB module resource,
you might click Map data sources for all 2.x CMP beans.
For a web module resource, click Resource references.
- Define authentication alias data for resources that
must be authenticated with the backend through container-managed authorization.
In this security configuration, WebSphere Application Server performs EIS
signon for data source or connection factory connections. Consult
the topic, J2EE connector security for detailed reference on resource
authentication.
- Start the deployed application files using the administrative
console, the wsadmin scripting tool startApplication command,
or your own Java program.
- Save the changes to your administrative configuration.
- Test the application. For example, point a web browser
at the URL for a deployed application and examine the performance
of the application.
Results
When you deploy an application that uses a DB2® UDB for IBM® i back-end database, you
might find the following exception in the SystemOut.log file:
PMGR6022E: Error using adapter to create or execute an Interaction
This type of error
indicates that you deployed an application with container-managed persistence (CMP) enterprise beans
that were originally configured to access a DB2 database on
Windows, Linux®, or
a supported UNIX system. Using the administrative console,
uninstall the affected CMP applications, then reinstall the applications with the new database
setting. Remember to select Deploy enterprise beans; on the EJB
deploy panel, select the appropriate version of your DB2 UDB for IBM i database.Tip: This topic references one or more of the application server log files. As a
recommended alternative, you can configure the server to use the High Performance Extensible Logging
(HPEL) log and trace infrastructure instead of using
SystemOut.log ,
SystemErr.log,
trace.log, and
activity.log files on distributed and IBM
i systems. You can also use HPEL in conjunction with your native z/OS® logging facilities. If you are using HPEL, you can access all of your log and trace
information using the LogViewer command-line tool from your server profile bin directory. See the
information about using HPEL to troubleshoot applications for more
information on using HPEL.
What to do next
If the application does not perform as wanted, update
the application, then save and test it again.