title: Remote Deploy to WebSphere 8.5 using maven
body: <p>I would like to control a remote deployment of a maven generated EAR over to an existing WAS instance not running on the build server. </p>
  
  <p>Ideally, I would like to do this within Maven so that I can remote deploy in say the integration-test phase then proceed to run some JMeters in the verify phase. I guess this is pretty standard.</p>
  
  <p>I have looked around and am unable to find a sensible way to do this in WAS 8.5.</p>
  
  <p>There are a few posts:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2118559/remote-deployment-to-websphere-6-1-x-using-wsadmin">Remote Deployment to WAS 6.1</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11871962/how-to-do-websphere-7-deployment-automation-using-maven">websphere7am-maven-plugin</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="http://cargo.codehaus.org/WebSphere+8.5.x" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Cargo</a></p>
  
  <p>and others around the web, including IBM. None seem to offer a way to achieve a remote deploy to WAS 8.5</p>
  
  <p>Does anybody have a solution?</p>
  
  <p>EDIT 1: 
  Further confirmation from IBM that no official maven solution exists can be found here:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=04fe3969-dd7c-43c8-b0f0-d6aa8266c5d4" rel="nofollow noreferrer">WAS 8.5 - Using Ant to automate tasks</a></p>