WebSphere Application Server V6.1 on Linux

I recently downloaded the full-featured trial download of WebSphere Application Server V6.1 to my old Fedora Core 5 laptop.

The installation was amazingly easy...

$ tar zxvf websphere.tar.gz
$ cd WAS/install
$ java -jar WAS/setup.jar
$ cd /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/bin
$ ./startServer server1

After starting WebSphere, you can check out the sample application:

http://localhost:9080/WSsamples