Launching the stand-alone Applications Manager to connect to the developer toolkit environment
You can obtain the stand-alone Applications Manager from the extracted runtime of a containerized developer toolkit. The stand-alone Applications Manager eliminates the dependency on a browser and other related issues.
Before you begin
You must first set up a containerized developer toolkit environment. For more information, see Setting up the containerized developer toolkit environment. As part of this process, the AppManager.zip file is generated inside the runtime/ApplicationManagerClient directory.
- If you have set up the developer toolkit on a system that has a desktop GUI environment, you can launch a stand-alone Applications Manager from that system itself. However, if you launch it from any other OS in which developer toolkit setup is not supported, you must copy the AppManager.zip file to the machine from where you want to launch the stand-alone Applications Manager and extract the .zip file. The extracted files include client.jar and a lib directory.
- If you are using a Linux system, this client works only on machines where a desktop environment such as KDE or Gnome is configured and not on remote servers.
- If you are using a Windows 10 system with WSL 2, you can download and extract AppManager.zip and run it from your Windows system.
- A stand-alone Applications Manager that is built from a specific version of a developer toolkit can connect to an Applications Manager running on a developer toolkit environment of the same version. To check the product version, see the About box of an application that is deployed in a developer toolkit environment.
- Whenever the base product version changes, you must repeat the build steps to obtain a new stand-alone Applications Manager.
- Passcode authentication is applicable only if IBMid authentication is enabled.
About this task
The stand-alone Applications Manager can be launched from the command line to connect to any developer toolkit environment that is on the same product version.
Procedure
Downloading/extracting the Applications Manager
What to do next
Running the stand-alone Applications Manager to connect to the developer toolkit environment
Ensure that Java SE Development Kit 1.8 or later is set in thePATH
environment variable in your system and then perform the following steps:- Go to the directory where you have the client.jar file.
- Run the command: java -jar client.jarNote: If you are working on a Windows system, run these commands from Command Prompt or PowerShell. If you do not have Java SE Development Kit 1.8 for Windows, install the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for 1.8.0 for WIndows.
This command launches the stand-alone Applications Manager. A login screen is displayed where you must enter the login credentials. Along with the credentials, you must specify the application console URL of your developer toolkit application server.
java -jar client.jar -mode SMC