Anatomy of workspace/wstemp in WebSphere Application Server .
What is Workspace: Whenever a user logs into the administrative console, or uses wsadmin scripting to make a configuration change, the changes are stored in the workspace. When a user uses the ConfigService configuration service interface of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs), the user specifies a session object that is associated with the workspace in order to store the changes. Only when the user performs a save operation under the administrative console, wsadmin scripting, or the Java APIs are the changes propagated and merged with the master configuration repository. For each administrative console user or each invocation of wsadmin scripting, the application server creates a separate workspace directory to store the intermediate changes until the changes are merged with the master configuration repository. Users of the Java APIs use different session objects to decide where the workspace directory resides. Both the administrative console and ws...