Kevin Haverlock

The new IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) v6.0 software introduces the concept of Server Profiles. Profiles can be thought of as a specific server runtime environment operating within a separate instance of the JVM. Each runtime environment has its own configuration files, logs, properties, and other attributes. Profiles can make each Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application server runtime unique and separate from the server binaries and from other profiles. The separation of static binaries from configuration files provides a number of benefits for system administrators. The WAS v6.0 profiles are similar to the wsinstance tool provided with WAS v5.x, but with some important differences. The wsinstance tool creates configuration files for separate JVM instances, but shares other information across instances of WAS v5.x. In contrast, profiles draw a sharp degr... (more)

Getting your arms around the Web 2.0 Feature Pack

To help customers develop Ajax style architectures, we released the WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for Web 2.0. The latest update is 1.0.0.1 which was released in September. If your trying to get your arms around this technology. Here is a great list of items that will be helpful: The Web 2.0 Feature Pack is supported on WebSphere Application Server version 7.0, 6.0.2, 6.1 and WebSphere Community Edition 2.x The name says it all: IBM RedBook "Building Dynamic Ajax Applications Using WebSphere Feature Pack for Web 2.0" A number of good overview articles:   A look at the ... (more)

Ajax Proxy for Web 2.0 Feature pack - quick look

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New Version of the Web 2.0 Feature Pack for Websphere

This past Friday the Web 2.0 Feature Pack 1.0.0.2 version was made available. You can find it here: Web 2.0 Feature Pack start page OR IBM's Fix Central The 1.0.0.2 feature pack contains Dojo 1.3.1 and includes over a 1000 bug fixes over version Dojo 1.1, wider browser support, and performance enhancements. On the server side, Ajax proxy, JSON4J, RPCAdapter, and Web messaging have all seen improvements. You can upgrade from 1.0 or 1.0.0.1 versions of the feature pack without adversely affecting your existing installation. Of course, if you want to pick up the latest changes into ... (more)

Dojo debugging and editors

Most of the challenges in developing Ajax applications is dealing with the development lifecycle of creating applications for the various browsers. Despite the fact that Dojo attempts abstracts away the pecularities of the various browser platforms, there are still going to be cases where it works on one browser and not the other. So here is a list of some of the tools that I use and feel free to add your own as well. Firebug 1.0 for the Firefox browser. Where would we be without Firebug? Dojotoolkit.org thinks the same thing since they made a nice donation to the Firebug projec... (more)