Reference

These topics provide reference information on WebSphere Application Server - Express and the administrative tools provided with the product.

Administrative tools
This topic provides a brief overview of the tools that you can use to configure and manage your application server and applications. It includes information to help you select a tool to use for administrative tasks.

The WebSphere administrative console
This topic describes the WebSphere administrative console and how to use it.

Qshell scripts
WebSphere Application Server - Express includes several administrative Qshell scripts and commands. This topic provides a description of each script and how to use it.

The wsadmin tool
This topic describes how to use wsadmin, the command line administrative client provided with WebSphere Application Server - Express. The wsadmin tool allows you to perform administrative functions from the Qshell command line, interactively or by providing scripts as input.

The ws_ant script
This topic describes how to use ws_ant, an Ant-based tool that you can use to perform some administrative tasks.

Java Management Extensions (JMX)
Java Management Extensions are a set of Java administrative APIs that you can use to customize WebSphere Application Server - Express administration. This describes how to use JMX. JMX is provided with WebSphere Application Server - Express as a technology preview.

Product library, directories, and subsystem
This topic describes the product library and the integrated file system directories for the product, and the subsystem for WebSphere Application Server - Express.

Administrative repository
Each instance of WebSphere Application Server - Express includes several configuration documents which collectively form the administrative repository for the instance. These documents describe the servers, nodes, applications, and resources that comprise the administrative domain of the instance. This topic provides information about the administrative repository and the documents it contains

Properties files
Each instance of WebSphere Application Server - Express includes several properties files. This topic describes the properties files included in the properties directory for each instance.

Port usage
This topic describes the TCP/IP ports that WebSphere Application Server - Express uses, and how to change the default port numbers.

User profiles and authorities
This topic describes the user profiles that WebSphere Application Server - Express uses, and lists the necessary authorities for the user profile under which WebSphere Application Server - Express will run.

Set the time zone
This topic describes how to set the time zone and provides the supported values for the user.timezone property.

Restricted characters in object names
When you create an object with the administrative console or with a wsadmin command, you must specify a name string for the object. This topic provides a list of characters that cannot be used as part of the name string.