Questions tagged [websphere]

IBM WebSphere Application Server, a software application server, is the flagship product within IBM's WebSphere brand. WebSphere Application Server is built using open standards such as Java EE, XML, and Web Services.

This tag is specifically for questions relating to the IBM WebSphere Application Server. Also see the tag for questions specific to the Liberty Profile.

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Websphere Application Server - What on earth will it take to start any fast?

I am using Rational Application Developer v7.0 that ships with an integrated test environment. When I get to debugging my webapp, the server startup time in debug mode is close to 5-6 minutes - enough time to take a coffee break! At times, it so…
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How do I connect to a Websphere Datasource with a given JNDI name?

I'm using Websphere Portal 7.0 and creating a portlet with RAD 8.0. My portlet is trying to make a db2 connection to a remote server. I wrote a java program locally to do a basic JDBC connection to the server and get records from a table. The code…
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Example of a build.xml for an EAR that deploys in WebSphere 6

I'm trying to convince my providers to use ANT instead of Rational Application Development so anyone can recompile, recheck, redeploy the solution anyplace, anytime, anyhow. :P I started a build.xml for a project that generates a JAR file but…
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websphere: Unsupported configuration attributes: [permitAll] using spring

I get the following error... Unsupported configuration attributes: [permitAll] When adding .... I'm on Websphere with Spring 2.5. Can anyone help? Jeff Porter
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Connect visualvm to websphere 7

I am trying to get visualvm and websphere 7 to work together on my local windows desktop. I try to connect through JMX but no luck. Has anybody managed to get visialvm and websphere 7 to work and ow did you do it? Regards FF
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Difference between queue manager and message broker

What is the difference between a Websphere Message Broker and a Queue Manager. I guess the queue manager puts messages in the queue, takes messages out of the queue, moves messages to backout queues etc. So what is the job of the broker? Does it…
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Relation between Oracle session and connection pool

Let me explain the set up first. We have an oracle server running on a 2GB RAM machine. The Db instance has the init parameter "sessions" set to 160. We have the application deployed on Websphere 6.1. The connection pool settings is Min 50 and Max…
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how do I test httpOnly cookie flag

I have set the following property in websphere for the jsession cookie com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.HTTPOnlyCookies. Any idea how best to test this using JavaScript in Firefox or IE?
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What's the difference between ActivationSpec and ConnectionFactory?

My understanding is that: MDBs (Message Driven Beans) connect via Activation Specification. MDPs (Message Driven POJO) connect via Connection Factory. This diagram from IBM is helpful: To me, this explanation from IBM does not shed much light…
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selecting all rows from a database using JPA in WebSphere

I am trying to implement a web service that uses open JPA to access the data layer. I am using websphere v7.0 and JPA 2.0. This service is going to get all rows out of a small db (about 6 rows and it won't expand much at all in the future). I am…
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Cluster-wide singleton in Websphere Cluster

I need to run a component using Apache Camel (or Spring Integration) under WAS ND 8.0 cluster. They both run some threads on startup, and stop them on shutdown normally. No problem to supply WAS managed threadpool. But that threads must run on…
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force or generate jvm core dump ( IBM JVM )

Possible Duplicate: Can I force generation of a JVM crash log file? How can I force or generate a JVM core dump on an Java application server or in general?
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How to free up memory?

We have been facing Out of Memory errors in our App server for sometime. We see the used heap size increasing gradually until finally it reaches the available heap in size. This happens every 3 weeks after which a server restart is needed to fix…
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How can I build an EAR file from a Dynamic Web Project in Eclipse?

I'm looking at deploying a web service which I've written in Eclipse to an EAR file. I'm able to export it as a WAR and deploy it on Tomcat all fine and dandy, but the final product won't be on Tomcat, and won't be a WAR file. I'll need to use…
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WebSphere: JNDI Context Lookup Failure

I have the following... Context aContext = = new InitialContext(settings); aContext.lookup("java:comp/env/DB2_DB"); Also tried... aContext.lookup("DB2_DB"); web.xml
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