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Hi there,
We are currently evaluating MyEclipse Blue as a possible alternative to AST from IBM. For the most part everything seems fine however, when trying to add deployments to the WAS 6.1 server I get a message that states that there are no applications to be deployed.
However there are definitely two EAR projects and one WAR that can be deployed. Now, I am guessing that this might have something to do with the targeted runtime set for the project. However, when I go to add a targeted runtime and select the IBM drop down there is only an entry for WAS 6.0 and not for WAS 6.1.
What is the workaround for this? I can of course start the WAS server, open the admin console and then manually install the applications but, this then blocks me from taking advantage of MyEclipse’s hot deploy and redeploy functions which is really something we need.
Kind Regards,
Schalk NeethlingSchalk,
Do you have both the WebSphere 6.0 and 6.1 connectors setup under Window > Prefs > MyEclipse > Servers > WebSphere – Blue Connectors and then the WebSphere 6.0 and 6.1 connectors setup to point at the two separate installs you have on your machine? This is where the wizard is picking up the Target Server values from.Also, if your projects are Java EE 5 projects (the EAR or EJB3/Web modules) that could be why it isn’t listing WebSphere 6 as a valid target as it only supports up to J2EE 1.4, but 6.1 will support Java EE 5 project types, but not EJB3 or JAX-WS without the feature packs.
Hi there Riyad,
Thank you for your reply. Do we have to have both 6.0 and 6.1 installed? I currently only have 6.1 on my machine and have this set-up under the Blue WAS connectors for WAS 6.1.
Our projects are Java SE 5 but not EE 5, did you mean SE? According to the IBM docs 6.1 does not support EE5 only EE4 but does support SE5. Apparently Websphere 7 might offer support for EE5.
The feature packs you refer to, would these be the plugins located in the plugins folder on the WAS 6.1 server install directory?
Looking forward to your response,
Schalk Neethling@support-rkalla wrote:
Schalk,
Do you have both the WebSphere 6.0 and 6.1 connectors setup under Window > Prefs > MyEclipse > Servers > WebSphere – Blue Connectors and then the WebSphere 6.0 and 6.1 connectors setup to point at the two separate installs you have on your machine? This is where the wizard is picking up the Target Server values from.
Also, if your projects are Java EE 5 projects (the EAR or EJB3/Web modules) that could be why it isn’t listing WebSphere 6 as a valid target as it only supports up to J2EE 1.4, but 6.1 will support Java EE 5 project types, but not EJB3 or JAX-WS without the feature packs.
Do we have to have both 6.0 and 6.1 installed?
If you want to use a server as a target server, yes you must have it installed and configured in order to set it as a target server and utilize it for artifact generation.
Our projects are Java SE 5 but not EE 5, did you mean SE?
No, I meant Java EE 5. WebSphere 6.1 will actually deploy Java EE 5 projects though, so if you create an EE 5 web project and deploy it, it will work (NOTE: To work with JAX-WS, you *must* use a Java EE 5 project)
The feature packs you refer to, would these be the plugins located in the plugins folder on the WAS 6.1 server install directory?
I don’t believe so, you likely need to download them from IBM’s site. I can’t provide much help there, I don’t know what avenues IBM provides for accessing updates and feature packs under their support contracts, but they are quite large. The JAX-WS feature pack is almost 600mb and the EJB 3 feature pack is over 600MB. We have a doc here:
http://www.myeclipseide.com/documentation/quickstarts/blueedition/blue_install_websphere6.1/#what_needthat shows you how to update/configure WebSphere 6.1 but you have to grab all the feature packs and updates on your own before starting the walk through.
