It's now possible to run WSAdmin with the Eclipse IDE as an external tool.

Installation Instructions.

A. Install Eclipse 3.2.

Download Eclipse 3.2 from www.eclipse.org and install to a local directory.

B. Install Eclipse Tcl Plugin.

Download the Eclipse Tcl plugin from http://www.eclipsedltk.org/download 
and install into Eclipse.  Use DLTK 07.  Simply follow the standard plugin installation 
procedure and copy the eclipse directory in the zip file over the 
eclipse install directory.

C. Configure the WSAdmin shell as an external tool.

This assumes you have a local WAS installation on your machine that provides the wsadmin.bat file.

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You can update the WAS JACL libraries with the latest version of  JACL(1.4) to take advantage of some of the new JACL commands.

Download the JACL 1.4.0 jaclBinary140.zip binary from http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcljava/

Expand the binary and copy the jacl.jar and tcljava.jar to the lib  directory of your desktop WAS installation.

e.g copy C:\jaclBinary140\jacl140\lib\tcljava1.4.0\jacl.jar    to C: \IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\lib\ 
e.g copy C:\jaclBinary140\jacl140\lib\tcljava1.4.0\tcljava.jar to C:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\lib\

If the Wsadmin scripts are run locally on the WAS server then you must  update the local installation library as well.

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Create a new external tool: Select run --> external tools --> external tools.
Double click on program.
Set the following parameters.

name:                   WSAdminShell_yourServer 
location:               WSAdmin installation directory E.G. C:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer1\profiles\AppSrv01\bin\wsadmin.bat 
working directory:      Set variable ${workspace_loc}  - This resolvest to the folder location of the top level folder in Eclipse. 
arguments:              -lang jacl -host  yourhost -port 8879 -f ${resource_loc} ${resource_name}

Close the dialog.

If security is enabled then you must either supply a userid and password as arguments or modify the local soap.client.props file with the userid and password. You will also need to retrieve the client certs from the target server using the retrieveSigners.bat utility.

D. Create a Tcl project.

Start Eclipse and create a Tcl Project: File --> new --> other --> Tcl Project.

Create a Tcl file called quickTest.tcl in the project: File --> new --other --> DLTK Tcl --> Tcl File

Add the following commands to quickTest.tcl then save.

clock format [ clock seconds ]
package require java
puts "current directory is [ java::call System getProperty user.dir ]"
java::import java.net.InetAddress
puts "My IP Address is: [ [ java::call InetAddress getLocalHost ] getHostAddress ] "

E. Select and run quickTest.tcl.

Make sure the WAS Deployment Manager is started.

Click once on quickTest.tcl to highlight.

From the top menu select run --> external tools --> WSAdminShell_yourServer. Do NOT right click --> runas.

The following is written to the Eclipse console.

current directory is C:\EclipseWorkSpaces\yourDirectory
My IP Address is: 123.45.67.89

F. Import your JACL scripts into the workspace and test using WSAdminShell_localhost.