This topic has instructions for installing the build utility
on Windows,r Linux, or Solaris operating systems by using IBM® Installation Manager.
You can use the Rational® Application
Developer for WebSphere® Software
build utility (the build utility) to automate the process of building
applications created from the Rational Application
Developer product. The inputs into the build utility are projects
developed using Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software,
and the output is the code compiled and packaged into JAR, WAR, and
EAR files. The build utility is an optional, stand-alone utility and
is separately installed.
Note: Starting with version 8.5, the product supports Solaris SPARC.
Feature license agreement
Use
of this feature is subject to the same terms and conditions that govern
the use of the IBM product that
included this feature.
System requirements for installation
The
following are the system requirements needed on your workstation:
- Your environment variable TEMP or TMP must point to a valid temporary
directory with at least 500 MB free. This temporary space is in addition
to the space required to install the utility.
- You must have at approximately 3 GB of disk space to store the
full set of downloadable images plus another 1.2 GB of disk space
to unpack the images.
Installing using Installation Manager
To
install IBM Installation Manager
and Rational Agent Controller
from downloaded installation files:
- Change to the directory where you extracted the contents of the
compressed files, and then changed to the BuildUtility/disk1/InstallerImage_<platform> subdirectory,
where <platform> is the platform that you downloaded.
For example:
- For Microsoft Windows: <directory
path for .zip file extracted contents>\BuildUtility\disk1\InstallerImage_win32.
- For Linux: <directory
path for .zip file extracted contents>/BuildUtility/disk1/InstallerImage_linux.
- For Solaris: <directory path for .zip file
extracted contents>/BuildUtility/disk1/InstallerImage_solaris.
- Run the program install.exe for Windows platforms or install for
non-Windows platforms. IBM Installation
Manager starts.
- On the Install Packages screen, IBM Rational Application
Developer for WebSphere Software Build Utility 8.5.1 selected
for installation. (If IBM Installation
Manager is not installed on your computer, then IBM Installation
Manager is also selected for installation). Click Next.
- Read the license agreement. If you agree to the license terms,
select I accept the terms in the license agreement and
click Next.
- If you do not already have a version of IBM Installation Manager installed on your computer,
then you must specify the following installation directories and then
click Next:
- In the Installation Directory field, type
the path for the directory where you want to install the build utility,
or accept the default directory path and click Next.
Note: You
cannot install the build utility into the same installation directory
as another product that was installed by Installation Manager. You
must choose a new directory.
- Click Next.
- Click Next.
- On the Features page, optionally select to install runtime stub
files for the supported WebSphere Application
Server and WebSphere Portal
Server versions, and then click Next.
Note: - The WebSphere Portal
Server stub files require the corresponding version of the WebSphere Application Server
stub files. Therefore, install both of these stubs to use WebSphere Portal Server.
- If you want to use the build utility without any WebSphere Application Server or WebSphere Portal Server stub
files, you need a local installation of a supported version of WebSphere Application Server
or WebSphere Portal Server
product.
- Confirm your installation summary information and then click Install.
The installation process starts.
- Confirm that the installation is successful and click Finish to
close Installation Manager.