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Install and uninstall features in the Application Client

We can use Installation Manager to install or remove a feature in the Application Client for IBM WAS.

Procedure

• Use the Installation Manager GUI to install or remove a feature in the Application Client for IBM WAS.
  1. Stop all servers and applications on the Application Client installation that is being modified.

  2. Start Installation Manager.

  3. Make sure that your Installation Manager preferences are pointing to the appropriate web-based or local repositories containing the Application Client for IBM WAS.

  4. Click Modify.

  5. Select the package group to modify.

  6. Click Next.

     If you are prompted to authenticate, use the IBM ID and password that you registered with on the program website.

  7. Expand Application Client for IBM WAS.
  8. Check the appropriate checkbox to install a feature, or clear the appropriate checkbox to remove a feature if you already have it installed.
     • IBM Developer Kit, Java 2 Technology Edition

       This option installs the IBM Developer Kit, Java 2 Technology Edition.

       This feature includes a development kit and a runtime-environment package. The runtime-environment package is always installed with the Java EE and Java thin application client feature even if this feature is not installed.

       • Java 2 Runtime Environment

         This option installs the Java 2 runtime environment.

         This feature includes the Java 2 runtime environment of IBM Developer Kit, Java 2 Technology Edition.

       • Developer Kit

         This option installs the developer kit.

         This feature includes the developer kit of IBM Developer Kit, Java 2 Technology Edition.

     • Samples

       This option installs executable and source-code examples of programming in both Java EE and non-Java EE client environments.

     • Standalone Thin Clients, Resource Adapters, and Embeddable Containers

       IBM thin clients and resource adapters provide a set of clients and resource adapters for a variety of technologies, such as JAX-WS, JAX-RPC, JAX-RS, XML, EJB, JPA, JMS, and more. An embeddable container runs in a standalone Java Platform, Standard Edition environment. For example, you can use the embeddable EJB container to run enterprise beans outside the application server.

       • Standalone thin clients and resource adapters

         This option installs the runtime for standalone thin clients.

       • Embeddable EJB container

         This option installs the embeddable EJB container.

         The embeddable EJB container is a Java Archive (JAR) file that you can use to run enterprise beans in a standalone Java Platform, Standard Edition environment. We can run enterprise beans using this embeddable container outside the application server. The embeddable EJB container is a part of the EJB 3.1 specification and is primarily used for unit testing enterprise beans business logic.

  9. Click Next.

  10. Review the summary information, and click Modify.

      • If the modification is successful, the program displays a message indicating that installation is successful.

      • If the modification is not successful, click View Log File to troubleshoot the problem.

  11. Click Finish.

  12. Click File > Exit to close Installation Manager.

• Use an Installation Manager response file to install or remove a feature in the Application Client for IBM WAS.

  We can record this response file using the GUI and Installation Manager's record mode, or you can manually create or modify a response file to suit your needs.

  Go to the IBM Installation Manager v1.4 Information Center for more information.

  Example: Here is a response file that modifies an existing Application Client for IBM WAS installation:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <agent-input clean='true' temporary='true'>
  <server>
  <repository location="http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/com.ibm.websphere.APPCLIENT.v80" />
  </server>
  <install modify='true'>
  <offering id='com.ibm.websphere.APPCLIENT.v80'
    profile='Application Client for IBM WAS V8.0'
    features='samples,standalonethinclient.resourceadapter.runtime'/>
  </install>
  <uninstall modify='true'>
  <offering id='com.ibm.websphere.APPCLIENT.v80'
    profile='Application Client for IBM WAS V8.0'
    features='embeddablecontainer,developerkit'/>
  </uninstall>
  <profile id='Application Client for IBM WAS V8.0'
    installLocation='C:\IBM\WebSphere\AppClient'>
  <data key='eclipseLocation' value='C:\IBM\WebSphere\AppClient'/>
  <data key='user.import.profile' value='false'/>
  <data key='user.select.64bit.image,com.ibm.websphere.APPCLIENT.v80' value='false'/>
  <data key='user.appclient.serverHostname' value='localhost'/>
  <data key='user.appclient.serverPort' value='2809'/>
  <data key='cic.selector.nl' value='en'/>
  </profile>
  </agent-input>
  

  In the following list, the optional feature offering IDs are enclosed in parentheses:

  • IBM Developer Kit, Java 2 Technology Edition
    • Java 2 Runtime Environment (javaruntime)
    • Developer Kit (developerkit)

  • Samples (samples)
  • Standalone Thin Clients, Resource Adapters, and Embeddable Containers
    • Standalone Thin Clients Runtime (standalonethinclient.resourceadapter.runtime)
    • Standalone Thin Clients Samples (standalonethinclient.resourceadapter.samples)
    • Embeddable EJB container (embeddablecontainer)

  Tip: See Sample response file: Modifying the Application Client for IBM WAS for an annotated sample of a response file for performing this procedure.

• Use the Installation Manager imcl command-line tool to install or remove a feature in the Application Client for IBM WAS.

  Read the IBM Installation Manager v1.4 Information Center for more information.

  Restriction: The imcl command-line tool in Installation Manager v1.4.x and earlier cannot update the product and remove features at the same time You should update the package with the same features using the imcl command and then remove unwanted features using the imcl command.

Install, updating, rolling back, and uninstalling the Application Client for IBM WAS
Install the Application Client using the GUI
Install the Application Client using response files
Install fix packs on the Application Client using the GUI
Uninstall fix packs from the Application Client using the GUI
Uninstall the Application Client using the GUI
Uninstall the Application Client using response files

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