From IBM Press, the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to IBM WebSphere administration. Covers the latest version of Websphere -- v5.0 Includes complete explanation of how to use the new WAS 5.0 JAVA admin APIs Includes Codes Samples for creating admin programs in WAS 5.0 IBM WebSphere V5.0 System Administration is the first book on WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 5.0. The System Administration features for version 5.0 were totally rewritten and quite different from previous WebSphere releases. This book covers the basics through advanced native administration making it desirable to a wide audience from system admins to application developers. New features covered in this book include WAS 5.0 Java admin APIs. These APIs are an important new feature for WAS 5.o is now embeddable in other products and there is a need for custom administration programs other than the native tools supplied with WebSphere. This is important because application developers will want to extend the native administration system with new managed objects that expose the manageable details of their application.