Deploying a web service on the Integrated Web Services for i5/OS server is cumbersome. You have to step through a wizard in the IBM Web Administration for i5/OS browser interface. This is extremely slow and error-prone. Fortunately there is a way to automate the deployment of your web services.

It turns out there are a couple of (currently undocumented) shell scripts that come with the product. They can be found in the /qibm/proddata/os/webservices/v1/server/bin directory of the IFS.

There are 5 scripts available (for use in a QShell session):

• installWebService.sh
• uninstallWebService.sh
• listWebServices.sh
• startWebService.sh
• stopWebService.sh

When you run a script without specifying any parameters some basic help is displayed.

The following sequence of commands can be used to redeploy a web service:

cd /qibm/proddata/os/webservices/v1/server/bin
sh ./stopWebService.sh -server WSERVICE1 -service MYSERVICE
sh ./uninstallWebService.sh -server WSERVICE1 -service MYSERVICE
sh ./installWebService.sh -server WSERVICE1 -programObject
     /QSYS.LIB/MYLIB.LIB/MYSERVICE.SRVPGM

These small scripts make a developer's life much easier when developing and testing web services on iSeries.