Today i’ve been trying to execute jython to manage my websphere from java. By utilizing the “com.ibm.ws.scripting.WasxShell” class i was hoping to be able to execute java using only the thick-client and jython libraries on my classpath.

Did not quite get there, but did catch something else – a simple way to automatically accept self-signed certificates, by leveraging websphere’s signer auto-exchange prompt . When set to stdin, you can just echo y to answer adding the certificate.

echo y | "${wsadmin.dir}\wsadmin.bat" -javaoption="-Dcom.ibm.ssl.enableSignerExchangePrompt=stdin" -conntype SOAP -host ${host} -port ${port} -user ${user} -password ${password} -lang jython -f "${scriptfile}"

Alternatively you might also go for a more explicit/controlled approach mentioned on notonlyanecmplace.com