{"id":3478,"date":"2010-09-16T12:08:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T12:08:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:53:17","slug":"adding-a-description-when-installing-an-application-using-wsadmin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=3478","title":{"rendered":"Adding a description when installing an application using wsadmin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wsadmin\">wsadmin<\/a> to install an application I wanted to add a description to an application edition. Was not able to find any documentation telling me what are valid parameters to apply to the options string, so I just tried &#8220;-description&#8221;, returning the error<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\nWASX7107E: Invalid options specified: \"[description]\"; valid options are:<br \/>\nCloneWorkClassClientTask<br \/>\nMapModulesToServers<br \/>\nBindJndiForEJBNonMessageBinding<br \/>\nBindJndiForEJBMessageBinding<br \/>\nMapEJBRefToEJB<br \/>\nMapWebModToVH<br \/>\nCtxRootForWebMod<br \/>\nEnsureMethodProtectionFor20EJB<br \/>\nMapSharedLibForMod<br \/>\nSharedLibRelationship<br \/>\nJSPCompileOptions<br \/>\nJSPReloadForWebMod<br \/>\nCustomActivationPlan<br \/>\nGetServerName<br \/>\npreCompileJSPs<br \/>\nnopreCompileJSPs<br \/>\ndistributeApp<br \/>\nnodistributeApp<br \/>\nuseMetaDataFromBinary<br \/>\nnouseMetaDataFromBinary<br \/>\ndeployejb<br \/>\nnodeployejb<br \/>\ncreateMBeansForResources<br \/>\nnocreateMBeansForResources<br \/>\nreloadEnabled<br \/>\nnoreloadEnabled<br \/>\ndeployws<br \/>\nnodeployws<br \/>\nprocessEmbeddedConfig<br \/>\nnoprocessEmbeddedConfig<br \/>\nallowDispatchRemoteInclude<br \/>\nnoallowDispatchRemoteInclude<br \/>\nallowServiceRemoteInclude<br \/>\nnoallowServiceRemoteInclude<br \/>\nuseAutoLink<br \/>\nnouseAutoLink<br \/>\nusedefaultbindings<br \/>\ndefaultbinding.force<br \/>\nallowPermInFilterPolicy<br \/>\nnoallowPermInFilterPolicy<br \/>\nverbose<br \/>\nupdate<br \/>\nupdate.ignore.old<br \/>\nupdate.ignore.new<br \/>\ninstalled.ear.destination<br \/>\nappname<br \/>\nedition<br \/>\nedition.desc<br \/>\nreloadInterval<br \/>\nvalidateinstall<br \/>\nfilepermission<br \/>\nbuildVersion<br \/>\nblaname<br \/>\nasyncRequestDispatchType<br \/>\ndeployejb.rmic<br \/>\ndeployejb.dbtype<br \/>\ndeployejb.dbschema<br \/>\ndeployejb.classpath<br \/>\ndeployejb.dbaccesstype<br \/>\ndeployejb.sqljclasspath<br \/>\ndeployejb.complianceLevel<br \/>\ndeployws.classpath<br \/>\ndeployws.jardirs<br \/>\ndefaultbinding.datasource.jndi<br \/>\ndefaultbinding.datasource.username<br \/>\ndefaultbinding.datasource.password<br \/>\ndefaultbinding.cf.jndi<br \/>\ndefaultbinding.cf.resauth<br \/>\ndefaultbinding.ejbjndi.prefix<br \/>\ndefaultbinding.virtual.host<br \/>\ndefaultbinding.strategy.file<br \/>\nfilepermission<br \/>\ntarget<br \/>\nserver<br \/>\nnode<br \/>\ncell<br \/>\ncluster<br \/>\ncontextroot<br \/>\ncustom<br \/>\ninstalled.ear.destination<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\nSo, in order to get the information, just create an error \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using wsadmin to install an application I wanted to add a description to an application edition. Was not able to find any documentation telling me what are valid parameters to apply to the options string, so I just tried &#8220;-description&#8221;, returning the error WASX7107E: Invalid options specified: &#8220;[description]&#8221;; valid options are: CloneWorkClassClientTask MapModulesToServers BindJndiForEJBNonMessageBinding BindJndiForEJBMessageBinding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14125,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions\/14125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}