Executing Scripts Using admin_client.jar

The command line utility admin_client.jar is used to perform deployment and other sorts of administrative operations against an OC4J instance.

Typically the operations are called from the command line on a one by one basis.

A little extra feature admin_client has is the ability to execute a script that contains a set of commands to perform.

Besides enabling scripts to be developed that capture a sequence of related (or common) operations, another benefit of this is that admin_client.jar establishes the connection once, and then executes the commands in the script using the same connection.

A script simply contains the list of admin_client commands to execute, in their normal form.

For example, to stop an application, then perform a redeployment, the script would contain:

  -stop  myApp
  -redeploy -file d:\temp\myapp.ear -deploymentName myapp -bindAllWebApps

To execute the script, admin_client.jar is invoked as normal with the deployer_uri and the authentication details, but instead of providing a command to execute you specify the -script option and feed it the script to use.

C:\oc4j\j2ee\home>java -jar admin_client.jar
deployer:oc4j:localhost oc4jadmin welcome1 -script script.txt

06/11/15 20:53:00 Notification ==>Stopping manageable object:
oc4j:j2eeType=J2EEApplication,name=myapp,J2EEServer=standalone
06/11/15 20:53:00 Notification ==>Stop completed for state manageable object:
oc4j:j2eeType=J2EEApplication,name=myapp,J2EEServer=standalone
06/11/15 20:53:01 Notification ==>Uploading file myapp.ear ...
06/11/15 20:53:01 Notification ==>Application Deployer for myapp STARTS.
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