I ran into an issue this past week where several times my Eclipse workspace ran into out of memory errors. I’m running Rational Software Architect (RSA), with several additional plugins, plus run one instance of WAS, and another instance of WebSphere Portal. Yes, I know. Yikes! That said, I have the horsepower for all these systems with … Read more
Rational Software Architect has a much underutilized feature called Software Analyzer built into the product. It is separately available as its own product. It allows the developer/architect to scan and identify build patterns and anti-patterns in a workspace, working set, or specific project in the developer workspace.These are very helpful to identify potential performance issues. … Read more
I’ve recently done a project involving WebSphere Dashboard Framework. Version 6.0 of the product states that it supports Rational Application Developer 7 and RSA. Being that I run RSA, I wanted to install WDF into RSA. The problem is that the WDF InstallAnywhere does not recognize RSA 7 as a valid Eclipse instance, nor does … Read more
We had a project recently where we have been updating an existing Java application and moving it from JBoss to WebSphere. Now some of you millennials may start thinking this is a backwards move, but its not. It is not one that I am working on, but rather something my colleagues are. Follow me on … Read more
I knew that IBM would not support IE7 on existing platforms (RAD/RWD/RSA 6, etc.), but now they have stated that they will not support IE7 on the upcoming RSDP 7 (codenamed Caspian). The product is not even released and yet IBM is behind the curve! http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21248158 IE 7 has been in Beta for nearly a … Read more
I signed up for the Beta program, but am still waiting. I don’t see the downloads available yet on the partner site yet. I am hoping that RSA/RAD 7 is going to be like what we saw at JavaOne in May from Eric Gamma et al. That demo blew me away. I think it makes … Read more