Developers

The documentation for WAS 4.0 generally encourages using the GUI-based Application Assembly Tool (AAT) to configure and package your applications. However, you may not have WebSphere's tools installed on your development machine. Furthermore it is tedious to use AAT, especially if you want to automate the development process using scripts.

Since the AAT configures an application basically by editing text-based configuration files, it is possible to achieve the same ends by manually editing these files. This documentation attempts to show you how to do this, in order to leverage WAS 4.0's various features.