Appendix A: WSAA in the Distributed Environment

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Overview

This appendix describes the distributed environment support in WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer (WSAA) Version 3 Release 1.

The following topics are discussed:

• The inventory collection process, including:

  • Repositories where assets can be scanned

  • Types of assets that are analyzed

  • Metadata and dependencies among the assets in the database

• Ways for exploring the inventory

• Key features for mining J2EE applications

  Note 

  The screen captures depicted in this chapter are from early WSAA V3.1 code and may be different from what you see when the product is shipped.

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