websphere

What caching model/framework with Websphere Spring Hibernate Oracle?

We are looking at implementing a caching framework for our application to help improve the overall performance of our site. We are running on Websphere 6.1, Spring, Hibernate and Oracle. The focus currently is on the static data or data that changes very little through out the day but is used a lot. So any info would be great. I ha...

websphere portal 6.1 development - which web framework to use?

I am starting a portal project using websphere portal server 6.1. This involves lot of portlets and i am inclined to use JSR286 specs rather than JSR168 Also, i wanted to use Spring Portlet MVC but 3.0 release is still in M2 and does not have proper documentation for the new features added. Should i start using Spring v2.5.6 and later ...

Strange 404/j_security_check error with Websphere 6.1

I have a websphere 6.1 configuration and the application is running, but some requests go to j_security_check but the last one (there are filters associated with J_security_check) will generate a 404 error. For example: (1) User posts to: http://localhost:9081/Page/j_security_check And it works on Filter1, but later requests to Filter...

Lightweight portal server for WebSphere Portal development?

I'm doing some portlet development for IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1. However, the deployment process is painfully slow. As this is my first time doing portlet development, I'm not too familiar with the various portal servers out there. I'd like some recommendations for a lightweight portal server on which I can deploy quickly for developm...

What's the difference between Pretest existing pooled connections and prestest new connections in websphere 6.1

What's the difference between Pretest existing pooled connections and prestest new connections in websphere 6.1..and which option is best one? can we enable both options? ...

Websphere single sign on from PHP site?

I need to provide SSO for a Webpshere portal. The authentication process needs to be handled by a PHP site (which itself should authenticate a user against an Active Directory via LDAP - think I have this bit covered though). I have been told I need to create an LTPA cookie. How would I go about doing this? What information need to be se...

WebSphere Portal 6.0 Portlet Error Logging

Where I can find the error logs from a portlet deployed to WebSphere Portal 6.0 (Linux) ...

Deploy a WebSphere Portal 6 portlet to WebSphere Portal 5

I am using Eclipse 3.2.2 with WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer 6.0.2. I have a portlet that was developed for Portal 6 which works fine, I can build the portlet War and deploy to a Portal 6 server fine. However, we only have production servers running Portal 5. So how do I build a War file which is compatible with Portal 5? ...

How to deploy with Ant an portlet to remote WebSphere Portal ?

How to deploy with Ant an portlet to remote WebSphere Portal 6.0 (Linux)? ...

Incorporate an issued .pem into Websphere 6 keystore

I have an application running on IBM Websphere 6.1. This application must use SSL to communicate with other similar applications used by other (external) entities. I believe I am the only member of this group that is using Websphere. A certificate issuer that others in my group trust, has issued me a '.pem' file. How do I incorporate tha...

Spring JavaMailSenderImpl: where to set the charset?

Where do you define the charset a mail is sent with if you are using a Spring JavaMailSenderImpl? We are using the Spring JavaMailSenderImpl with a mail session we get from the Websphere Application Server 6.1. Strangely, the charsets used in sending the emails are different on different systems using the same code. I am looking for a w...

Websphere classloader delegation mode

We are using WebSphere 6.1 application server with default classloader delegation mode i.e. PARENT-FIRST. We think about changing it to PARENT-LAST to be able to choose our jsf implementation or our webservices stack. As PARENT-FIRST is the default I wonder how many people switched to PARENT-LAST, and what was the reason to switch, and ...

WAS7 System Properties in RAD 7.5.1.

I have an old project in WSAD 5.1.2 with a WAS4 server configuration that's in a .wsi-file. If I double click it I get the server configuration editor and on the environment tab there is a System Properties section with some name-value pairs. Now I have opened the same project in RAD 7.5.1. Where can i input the same name-value pairs fo...

Why use WAS-CE over Apache Geronimo?

What benefits do I gain by using IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition over Apache Geronimo? ...

Websphere Shared Libraries and Java 2 Security

Hi I have created a jar file to load a native library ( using System.loadlibrary() ) and configured this as a shared library within WebSphere ( v6.1 ). The server has to run with Java 2 enabled ( it's the law ... ) When I try to access the library I can see that the correct classes are being loaded from my jar file, but the attempt to ...

What is the difference between EJBHome.remove(Handle) and EJBObject.remove() in Websphere Application Server 5.1 for a Stateless Session Bean

According to my understanding of the EJB spec both of the remove methods should invoke Bean.ejbRemove() and put the EJB instance back in the EJB pool. This should make the Remote instance (returned from EJBHome.create()) no longer usable. As far as I can tell ejbRemove is being called but the remote instance is still usable, which impli...

Removing unnecessary whitespace in a J2EE/Struts Application in WebSphere

Is anyone familiar with a technique for removal of whitespace that results from the use of tag libraries such as JSTL? I know that you can do this in Tomcat via a trimSpaces initialization parameter, but does anyone have similar experience doing this type of thing within WebSphere App Server? ...

JSF Tuning

Running into an issue where JSF is filling up our sessions. We had a system crash the other day. Sent the Heap to IBM for review and found that we had some sessions as large as 50M. They found JSF components in the session and some very large. So, is there any tuning that can be done? Configuration items to look at? Or other directi...

Forcing Compile of .tag files

How can I force Websphere to compile my .tag files? Cleaning the project, publishing, restarting the server, adding and removing projects all don't help - the .class file for the tag file is not being recompiled. If I delete the .class files, I get an error that the class is missing, but it does not recompile ...

Is there any open source java CMS running compatible in IBM WebSphere Portal

Hi All, What is the java Open Source Content Management System that can running compatible in IBM WebSphere Portal? I currently testing on Apache Lenya. I want the CMS running on portlet. ...