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, ... (more)

Using Google Web Toolkit with WebSphere Application Server

The other day I was asked about Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and developing JEE applications for WebSphere Application Server. GWT is Google's toolkit that allows developers to create Ajax style architectures. What is unique about GWT is that it provides a Java library for generating JavaScript. The developer writes Java classes, compiles, and executes the class files to create JavaScript. T... (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 see... (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 fee... (more)