Is there a simpler way to deploy to WebSphere?

Question

I have seen this question about deploying to WebSphere using the WAS ant tasks.

Is there a simpler way to do this? In the past I have deployed to Tomcat by dropping a w

Answer 1

One way to do it could be using Jython or jacl scripts. See those samples at IBM site.

[EDIT] Especially the wsadminlib.py.zip download near the bottom of the page contains a huge set of examples and helper functions to get you started.