<p>I have seen <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4046/can-someone-give-me-a-working-example-of-a-buildxml-for-an-ear-that-deploys-in">this question</a> about deploying to WebSphere using the WAS ant tasks.</p>

<p>Is there a simpler way to do this?  In the past I have deployed to Tomcat by dropping a war file into a directory.  I was hoping there would be a similar mechanism for WebSphere that doesn't involve calling the IBM libraries or rely on RAD to be installed on your workstation.</p>

One way to do it could be using
Jython or jacl scripts
. See those samples at IBM site.
[EDIT]
Especially the
```
wsadminlib.py.zip
```
download near the bottom of the page contains a huge set of examples and helper functions to get you started.