Application testing and publishing

The application testing and publishing tools feature of this product provides run-time environments where you can test JSP files, servlets, HTML files, enterprise beans and Java™ classes.

You can use the server tools to test and publish resources from the following types of projects:

After testing your application locally, you can use the tools to publish the application either locally or to another machine.

Supported run-time environments

The server tools provided in this product allow you to test your applications in different local or remote run-time environments. Where indicated, you can also use the tools to publish to these environments:

Specification level summary

The Server Tools provides the appropriate server selection based on the what J2EE specification level you have defined for your J2EE artifacts and the supported servers for this product. The following table summarizes the specification level each server supports:
Table 1. Summary of the server's specification level support
Server J2EE Specification Level
v1.2 v1.3 v1.4
WebSphere v6.0 Server Supported Supported Supported
WebSphere v5.1 Server and Test Environment Supported Supported Not supported
WebSphere Express v5.1 Server and Test Environment Supported, but does not support EJB modules Supported, but does not support EJB modules Not supported
WebSphere v5.0 Server and Test Environment Supported Supported Not supported
WebSphere Express v5.0 Server and Test Environment Supported, but does not support EJB modules Supported, but does not support EJB modules Not supported
WebSphere v5 Server Attach Supported Supported Not supported
J2EE Publishing Server Supported Supported Supported
Static Web publishing Server* Not supported Not supported Not supported
Tomcat v5.0 Server Only supports Web modules Only supports Web modules Only supports Web modules
Tomcat v4.1 Server Only supports Web modules Only supports Web modules Not supported
Tomcat v4.0 Server Only supports Web modules Only supports Web modules Not supported
Tomcat v3.2 Server Only supports Web modules Not supported Not supported

*Static Web publishing servers supports only static Web modules.

Server definitions

The server tools use servers and configurations to test and publish your projects. Servers are definitions that identify where you want to test your projects. Server configurations contain setup information. You can either have the development environment create the servers and configurations automatically for you, or you can create them using a wizard. Resources that are used by these tools are covered in a separate topic.

Related tasks
Testing artifacts on a server
Managing servers
Related reference
Servers view
1 WebSphere Application Server v5.x test environments and servers are not available in WebSphere Application Server Toolkit. WebSphere Application Server Toolkit only has WebSphere v6.0 server.
2 Apache Tomcat servers are not available in WebSphere Application Server Toolkit
3 Static Web publishing servers are not available in WebSphere Application Server Toolkit
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