Chapter 2. Administrative Concepts and Architecture

Before launching into the chapters that discuss details of the WebSphere Application Server Version 5 administration tooling, there are some fundamental concepts for Version 5 that are important to absorb. It's important to know how the management logic is structured into each process in WebSphere to have some context in which to understand the following chapters. We therefore cover the administrative architecture for the product in this chapter.

The concepts from this chapter apply to all of the administrative tooling. They represent the foundation on which both the Base Application Server edition and Network Deployment edition management is built. The logic is the same for both Base and Network ...

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