Installing on the server is the simplest way to get WDR working.

Get the code

All you need to do is to either:

Configure your environment

Set 2 environment variables:

  • WAS_HOME with a fully-qualified path of your WAS installation (or path to WAS profile)

  • WDR_HOME with a fully-qualified path of a directory containg extracted/cloned WDR repository

Start using it

Then run start wsadmin session with the following arguments:

${WAS_HOME}/bin/wsadmin.sh -lang jython -javaoption -Dcom.ibm.ws.scripting.exceptionPropagation=thrown -javaoption -Dpython.path=${WDR_HOME}/lib/legacy:${WDR_HOME}/lib/common:. -profile ${WDR_HOME}/profile.py

%WAS_HOME%\bin\wsadmin.bat -lang jython -javaoption -Dcom.ibm.ws.scripting.exceptionPropagation=thrown -javaoption "-Dpython.path=%WDR_HOME%\lib\legacy;%WDR_HOME%\lib\common;." -profile %WDR_HOME%\profile.py

If everything goes well, you should get the output similar to the following one:

%WAS_HOME%\bin\wsadmin.bat -lang jython -javaoption -Dcom.ibm.ws.scripting.exceptionPropagation=thrown -javaoption "-Dpython.path=%WDR_HOME%\lib\common;%WDR_HOME%\lib\legacy" -profile %WDR_HOME%\profile.py
WASX7209I: Connected to process "dmgr" on node wdrDMgrNode using SOAP connector;  The type of process is: DeploymentManager
2013-09-04 17:06:06,766 [INFO] using WDR version 0.3
2013-09-04 17:06:06,776 [INFO] the client is connected to host localhost:8879 using SOAP connector
2013-09-04 17:06:06,782 [INFO] the target process is wdrCell/wdrDMgrNode/dmgr
WASX7031I: For help, enter: "print Help.help()"
wsadmin>print getJMXMBean1(type='Server',name='dmgr').state
STARTED
wsadmin>reset()
wsadmin>exit