Application Server Tools
Application Server Tools
TABLE 11
Application Server Tools
Tool
Description
Admin Console
A web-based GUI Application Server administration utility. Used to stop the
Application Server and manage users, resources, and applications.
asadmin
A command-line Application Serveradministration utility. Used to start and
stop the Application Server and manage users, resources, and applications.
asant
A portable command-line build tool that is an extension of the Ant tool
developed by the Apache Software Foundation (see
asant
contains additional tasks that interact with the Application Server
administration utility.
appclient
A command-line tool that launches the application client container and invokes
the client application packaged in the application client JAR file.
capture-schema
A command-line tool to extract schema information from a database, producing
a schema file that the Application Server can use for container-managed
persistence.
package-appclient
A command-line tool to package the application client container libraries and
JAR files.
Java DB database
A copy of the Java DB database server.
verifier
A command-line tool to validate Java EE deployment descriptors.
xjc
A command-line tool to transform, or bind, a source XML schema to a set of
JAXB content classes in the Java programming language.
schemagen
A command-line tool to create a schema file for each namespace referenced in
your Java classes.
wsimport
A command-line tool to generate JAX-WS portable artifacts for a given WSDL
file. After generation, these artifacts can be packaged in a WAR file with the
WSDL and schema documents along with the endpoint implementation and
then deployed.
wsgen
A command-line tool to read a web service endpoint class and generate all the
required JAX-WS portable artifacts for web service deployment and invocation.
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