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Automation is a process of developing a tool or a product to perform on its own, in order to achieve all the functionalities required of a complex system, without human intervention. The current Certification Process of the J2EE product in IBM is consuming unnecessary time even for the valid products. In order to reduce this processing overhead, the process of automation was proposed by the technologist to save time so as to accomplish the task early. The need for automating the tool of Certification arose due to unwanted utilization of man-hour and man-power. The existing system halts after the tool finishes the comparison of the listings (which contain details of the build, its environment and the list of files present within the build), until the administrator logs-in. Administrator checks each transaction ID individually for intimating the clients about the status of their products. The proposed system aims at sending the intimation to the clients as soon as the comparison is done successfully, without the intervention of administrator i.e., an automated notification will be sent after successful comparison of the listings. The tool will also provide an option to generate chart/graph whenever the managerial team needs it at just one click. The work carried out here is aimed at automating the process of certifying the Java products or assets developed by IBM Software Product Groups. It also aims at generating graphs at real-time for the number of products certified till date. The certification process is for IBM JRE/SDK used by IBM Software Product Groups. It will be done by comparing the listings submitted by the IBM Software Product Groups and the reference listings present in the Certification server. JRE/SDK should adhere to the constraints as per the Oracle license. The IBM product or asset is certified after the Certification Team sends the €œJava Compatibility Logo€. Here Javapath, listpath, build listing, product details for automation and start-and-end dates for graph generation act as inputs in Product Certification Process. After submitting the request, a transaction ID is generated which keeps track of certification status. The process ends with sending a notification about successful submission of the request. The report is generated as bar-graph with x-axis showing the duration in months, quarters or years and y-axis showing the number of products/builds certified. After the implementation and the testing process, it is noticed that the time-consumption and man-power required for Certification Process is reduced.