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This is a question I get frequently from new customers running WebSphere Application Server, and its a good question as its not well documented anywhere (or at least anywhere convenient). Every shop will need to IPL their iSeries at some point, and subsequently you want to bring down the Application server and HTTP servers gracefully … Read more
Portal installs out of the box using Cloudscape (a.k.a. Apache Derby). Needles to say, this is not a scalable database, but is appropriate for demos. A RDBMS is very CPU and disk intensive and often memory intensive as well. Separating the db from the Portal is the first step in scaling a Portal environment up. … Read more
Neat little catch 22 I’ve discovered in setting up Portal 6 on our iSeries. Both of these statements are from the InfoCenter. It appears that there is no clear way to install the Process server components in a clustered environment (or a managed) on an iSeries from an initial or scripted install. i5/OS users: Installation … 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
HATS 6.0.5 is now out. This release supports version 6.1 of WebSphere, and addresses several minor issues. In particular portlet messaging was broken in prior release (i.e. click to action). If you plan on doing any Java 5 type coding (generics, auto-boxing, varargs, etc.), then this is your baby. WAS 6.1 is not fully JEE … Read more
In JavaScript and CSS its very helpful for an element to have an id attribute (not just a class attribute). For those of you not in the know, the id attribute should be unique across the entire HTML. Only one element should have value of that id. Class attributes allow HTML elements to be grouped … Read more
For those of you who don’t have enough to do, and want to fill up your hard drive with gigabytes of unproven, untested beta code from IBM, there is an opportunity to participate in the Rational Software Architect 7 and Functional Tester 7 beta program. Its unclear whether this will be on Eclipse 3.1 or … Read more
DevX has a very good article that demonstrates the strengths, weaknesses and compatibilities of both approaches on a technical level. http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/32314/0/page/1 While the distributed abilities of EJB 3.0 makes it appealing, the market for that kind of application is still maybe 5% of what’s out there, but the new JPA will become appealing to use … Read more
This has been an issue that has plagued me a few times. The problem is that when you are publishing from Rational Application Developer to a remote WAS instance, you get a message "Failure Uploading Archive to Server", and in the server logs, you see: Download is not from …/config/temp/download configuration repository: /publishrecord.remote Upload is … Read more
WebSphere Portal 6 has come out about a month ago. Since that time, I’ve been trying to get it properly configured on an iSeries in our lab, and on a Windows VM image. It is up an running, and I’ve taught a class at a client using one of those images. I have a few … Read more