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rickcoup
rickcoup

Reputation: 275

websphere liberty admincenter datasource

Recently, I switched to the websphere liberty 8.5.5.9. The adminCenter replaced the admin console. I used to configure many things in the admin console of lower Websphere version. but in the new admincenter, I couldn't find them any more, e.g. configure a datasource. any suggestions?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 927

Answers (3)

M. Broz
M. Broz

Reputation: 738

The Admin Console is the UI for WebSphere Traditional whereas Admin Center is the UI for WebSphere Liberty. Just like there are differences between the functionality of WebSphere Traditional and Liberty, same can be said for Admin Console and Admin Center.

Although Admin Center does not provide a 'wizard' type of experience that Admin Console does, you can use the Server Config tool to create a datasource and it can help guide you through the process by showing all the fields that can be set (including any defaults). If you stay in the Design view for the configuration file (likely server.xml) of the server that you want to alter, you can select 'Add Child' and select 'Datasource.' If will then populate all the fields with descriptions and defaults: Data Source in Design View of Server Config in Admin Center

You can get similar assistance in the 'Source' view by activating content assist via ctrl+space. This functionality is not unique to datasource, but is provided for all elements.

Upvotes: 2

F Rowe
F Rowe

Reputation: 2064

In addition to editing the server.xml as described by aguibert, you can create and edit data sources using the Liberty AdminCenter as described in this IBM KnowledgeCenter topic.

Upvotes: 2

Andy Guibert
Andy Guibert

Reputation: 42926

In WebSphere Liberty you can configure your DataSource directly in the server.xml (similar to most server-level configurations in Liberty).

Here is an example from the Liberty documentation:

<dataSource id="DefaultDataSource" jndiName="jdbc/derbyEmbedded">
    <jdbcDriver libraryRef="DerbyLib"/>
    <properties.derby.embedded databaseName="C:/databases/SAMPLEDB" createDatabase="create"/>
</dataSource>

<library id="DerbyLib">
    <fileset dir="C:/db-derby-10.8.1.2-bin/lib"/>
</library>

To use a datasource, be sure to enable a JDBC feature in your server.xml, such as this:

<featureManager>
    <feature>jdbc-4.1</feature>
</featureManager>

If you're not sure where to find your server.xml, by default it is in this location:

${wlp.install.dir}/servers/${your.server.name}/server.xml

For full doc on configuring data sources in Liberty, see:
Configuring relational database connectivity in Liberty

Upvotes: 2

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