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

WAS does provide a client jar containing some custom ant tasks. However they seem to be extremely bugy and dont work with remote servers.

IBM ANT TASK Javadoc

Netbeans also has support for was 6 and 6.1 but this again is still quite buggy, however it can be useful for generating some the bindings files etc.