If you have not used the Web 2.0 feature pack for WebSphere App Server, you might be missing out on a free and valuable tool. This feature pack is for WebSphere App Server 6.1 and 7.0. Web 2.0 Feature Pack Overview In RAD / RSA, there you have built in support for the Dojo toolkit, … 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
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
I just figured out a problem that has been bugging the bejeezus out of me. I could not for the life of me start of WAS7 in my RAD 7.5 dev environment. The startServer.log file always showed a port conflict, but I could not find the cause of it anywhere. I had shut down all … Read more