The following is my ant for websphere deployment, application start & stop, etc. The complete API doc can be found in IBM website: https://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/dmndhelp/v6rxmx/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.wsps.602.javadoc.doc/doc/index.html
For this tasks to run, you need to have the jar file com.ibm.ws.runtime.jar. This jar file can be found in plugins directory of your Websphere installation.

<property name="hostName" value="localhost" />
<property name="connType" value="SOAP" />
<property name="port" value="8880" />
<property name="deployEar.dir" value="C:\Users\firmanw\Documents\zw2\OSMS\build" />
<property name="deployEar" value="osms.war" />
<property name="wasHome.dir" value="C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\TeamConcert\runtimes\base_v7" />
<property name="app.name" value="osms_war" />
<property name="profile.name" value="profilexfirman" />
<taskdef name="wsInstallApp" classname="com.ibm.websphere.ant.tasks.InstallApplication" classpath="com.ibm.ws.runtime.jar" />
<taskdef name="wsStartApplication" classname="com.ibm.websphere.ant.tasks.StartApplication" classpath="com.ibm.ws.runtime.jar" />
<taskdef name="wsStopApplication" classname="com.ibm.websphere.ant.tasks.StopApplication" classpath="com.ibm.ws.runtime.jar" />
<target name="installEar" depends="build.osms">
<echo message="Deployable EAR File found at: ${deployEar.dir}/${deployEar}" />
<wsInstallApp ear="${deployEar.dir}/${deployEar}" wasHome="${wasHome.dir}" conntype="${connType}" port="${port}" host="${hostName}" profilename="profilexfirman" options="-appname ${app.name} -usedefaultbindings -update" />
</target>
<target name="startInstallEar" depends="installEar">
<echo message="Mulai ngestart" />
<wsStartApplication wasHome="${wasHome.dir}" conntype="${connType}" port="${port}" host="${hostName}" profilename="${profile.name}" application="${app.name}" />
</target>
<target name="startEar">
<echo message="Mulai ngestart" />
<wsStartApplication wasHome="${wasHome.dir}" conntype="${connType}" port="${port}" host="${hostName}" profilename="${profile.name}" application="${app.name}" />
</target>
<target name="stopEar">
<echo message="Mulai nyetop" />
<wsStopApplication wasHome="${wasHome.dir}" conntype="${connType}" port="${port}" host="${hostName}" profilename="${profile.name}" application="${app.name}" />
</target>

<target name="restartEar" depends="stopEar, startEar"></target>

In the office we use Websphere AS and RAD as IDE. When you make changes to a Java class file, the changes are publised by the IDE to the AS, and the server restarts for the changes to take effect. This is in contrast to the changes done to JSP which do not require server restart to take effect. Actually there is a possibility of hot deployment and dynamic reloading (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wsdoc400/v6r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.iseries.doc/info/ae/ae/trun_app_hotupgrade.html) which basically works like this: you replace the class file in the server with the new class file and the changes should take effect immediately without needing server restart. This is a very useful feature of WAS and it makes me wonder why the WAS plugin for RAD/Eclipse does not have a feature to enable this. I know there are limitations, like when you replace Hibernate entities or deployment descriptor, then you still need to restart the server but generally this feature is very useful during development.

So i decided to write an ant build file which runs when there is an automatic build. The job of this build file is basically to replace the class files in the server with the newly built class files in the workspace.

To do this, I first need to manually deploy the EAR via the WAS console. This is to make the exploded EAR file available in the server. Because when i deploy the ear by right clicking on the project -> run as -> run in the server, the exploded ear file is not there in the server! I dont know where, probably in one of the numerous plugin directories of the RAD/Eclipse installation.

After the ear file is manually deployed, then disable automatic publishing in the WAS plugin.


And then the ant build file:



Pretty obvious I guess. The src.osms is the workspace build directory while the des.osms is the WAS exploded ear directory. The most important part of the build file is the mnodified selector (https://ant.apache.org/manual/Types/selectors.html#modified) which selects only recently modified file (which is the file newly built by Eclipse automatic build) and copies these files to WAS.

Now, this ant build file needs to run everytime you modify a class file or anything, so enable automatic build on your project.

I have trying to port app written for Glassfish to JBoss Wildfly, since i met numerous issues with Glassfish. The default JPA impl for Glassfish is EclipseLink, while for Wildfly it is hibernate. I wanted to keep using EclipseLink in Wildfly.

1. Download eclipselink. http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/downloads/

2. Unzip it, copy the eclipselink.jar to modules/system/layers/base/org/eclipse/persistence/main

3. Update module.xml in the directory to reflect the change:
























Make sure to match the exact name of the jar file in module.xml. If the jar file includes version numbers, for example, this should be reflected in module.xml file.

3. Execute the following while Wildfly is running:

jboss-cli.sh --connect '/system-property=eclipselink.archive.factory:add(value=org.jipijapa.eclipselink.JBossArchiveFactoryImpl)'
Or alternatively, modify standalone.xml to add the following:


4. Add the following dependence to pom.xml. Make sure the version matches the version of eclipselink jar you copied in Wildfly directory in step 2.








5. Define the provider for eclipselink in persistence.xml












Note that if the provider tag in persistence.xml is removed, then the app server will fallback to the default JPA implementation, which is hibernate for Wildfly and eclipselink for Glassfish.

So i have two installations of JDK on my Mac OS X. 1.7 and 1.8. The following is to list all JDK in Mac.


/usr/libexec/java_home -V

So basically i was trying to import a dump file for schema rcemca into schema rcecms. (on a side note: you create schema by creating user. So each user has its own schema). I created the IMPDP_DIR by the following:

create directory IMPDP_DIR as '/home/firman/Downloads'
grant read, write on IMPDP_DIR to rcecms
commit


I then queried the database to makes sure the newly created directory is there
select * from all_directories


It was there.

impdp system/password DIRECTORY=IMPDP_DIR DUMPFILE=file.dmp schemas=rcemca remap_schema=rcemca:rcecms


But i got the following error:

ORA-39002: invalid operation
ORA-39070: Unable to open the log file.
ORA-29283: invalid file operation
ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_FILE", line 536
ORA-29283: invalid file operation

After some searches i figured out it was because the user oracle, which ultimately runs the necessary steps to import the data, which is different from the user with which i ran the impdp command, has no access to the /home/firman/Downloads directory. A permission problem. This was fixed by changing the permission of /home/firman/Downloads or better still, moving the dump file to the Oracle provided data pump directory, which is DATA_PUMP_DIR (query above).

I followed the examples explained in the following JBoss official links:

https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS71/EJB+invocations+from+a+remote+client+using+JNDI

https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS71/Remote+EJB+invocations+via+JNDI+-+EJB+client+API+or+remote-naming+project

This is my lookup method:



But  when i ran the client, i kept getting the following exception:

So i installed Sun Oracle JDK 7 on my Mac. I unzipped Eclipse into /Applications. I opened launcher, trying to launch Eclipse from there.

But a dialog box popped up asking me to install Java 6 in order to run Eclipse.

This is in part due to Oracle's missing definitions of the JRE7 VM capabilities.

/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk.1.7.<…>/Contents/

<key>JVMCapabilities</key>
 <array>
  <string>CommandLine</string>
 </array>

<key>JVMCapabilities</key>
 <array>
  <string>JNI</string>
  <string>BundledApp</string>
  <string>WebStart</string>
  <string>Applets</string>
  <string>CommandLine</string>
 </array>

Then restart Mac, and problem solved.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19563766/eclipse-kepler-for-os-x-mavericks-request-java-se-6/19594116#19594116

For those having issue with keychain asking for "Local Items" every time after upgrading to Mavericks, and not being able to unlock the keychain lock (asks again for the same unknown password)

Don't even try to repair (it will not work) or Reset my Default Keychain (it will ask for the password). 

Fixes: Go to ~/Library/Keychain and move all files to the trash. Reboot your mac and keychain should give you a message of error, just click to create new keychain. 

https://discussions.apple.com/message/23496232#23496232