Manual deployments suck Lets face it, we’ve all had the “deployment weekend” nightmare. You plan for a half day of deployment, but it ends up turning into a day and half of wasted time because you’ve either missed something, deployed the wrong version, set the wrong environment parameter, or a late defect showed up that … Read more
Symptom :After you have installed the web services feature pack for WAS 6.1, you try to install an application running Apache CXF. While the application compiles fine, it simply will not start, and the SystemOut.log (or console) shows the following error message: [1/10/11 14:45:31:410 EEST] 00000019 WASAxis2Compo E WSWS7007E: The xxxxx.war application module cannot be … Read more
WebSphere App Server on the i/OS does not come with a feature to automatically start and stop, and sometimes its best to use a CL command to stop it. I frequently see users doing an ENDSBS(WAS7), which wreaks havoc with the JVM. Please don’t just end the subsystem. When you do this, the JVM drops … Read more
After several years of development and LOTS of community involvement, Sun has announced the release of Java Enterprise Edition 6 or Java EE 6 for short. Please, please don’t call it J2EE anymore! There is a good article on the Sun Developer site on the new features of Glassfish v3 and JEE6. Another good presentation … Read more
One of the new features WebSphere Application Server 7 is its properties file based configuration. Since version 5 WAS has had a scripting interface called wsadmin (it was an xml interface in prior versions), which is accessed from the WAS_HOME/bin directory as wsadmin.bat or wsadmin.sh. This scripting interface allows live interaction with the server, or … Read more
If you are running IHS, there is a much needed fixpack you should install. Several vulnerabilities have been found that allow an attacker to exploit the system or cause a denial of service attack. These vulnerabilities affect the following versions:IBM HTTP Server version 6.0.2IBM HTTP Server version 6.1IBM HTTP Server version 7.0 To correct the … Read more
IBM Announced XD 6.1.1 last week. This is a refresh pack rather than a fix pack (note the 3rd digit change). You need to be at WAS 6.1.0.25 or 7.0.0.5 before upgrading. The FTP site for the refresh pack CIM is here. New features include: AIX Micro-partitioning uncapped shared processor support enables Virtual Enterprise to … Read more
As I have recently found out by the school of hard knocks, these two do not mix when Java EE web container security is enabled. Background: Struts2 is the follow on to the very popular and ubiquitous framework Apache Struts. Struts2 is actually a combination of Struts and WebWorks and is a really slick framework. … Read more
For those who are running WAS 7, IBM released the latest fixpack yeserday (March 24th). This is a highly recommended fix. You can get the fix from IBM’s FTP site. This is the easiest way as you don’t have to rat through their support web site. For Windows 32 bit (about half of you out … Read more
This post is really for the Linux newbies. Most sys admins are already familiar with Windows services to automagically start and stop an application. Frequent readers know that I am a Linux advocate, so here is a tip for those who may be interested in moving to a Linux platform for their WebSphere or Lotus … Read more