Michael Rosenthal

I am going to be taking this cert as well. I have been reading the info center and the 2 posted articles

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0803_hepper/0803_hepper.html?S_TACT=105AGX10&S_CMP=LP

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0809_hepper/0809_hepper.html

I passed with 71% this morning. Test was as you said very difficult. I agree that hands on experience is needed as well as spending a lot of time on the InfoCenter website. I used that as my sole source of information. Thanks for your help.

One more question then as I am taking it this week. The Section 1 Topic "Understanding installation options (e.g., archive, custom, and component). I have no idea what they mean. As far as I am concerned your options are

gui install (full/custom)
install with a response file

Do you know what the archive and component installation options mean?

How was the test? Any suggestions on someone preparing to take it?

Have you considered upgrading to RAD

I dont understand your response? Did you add the reference in your web deployment descriptor on the reference page? If so it should work. If not tell me exactly what you added there.

You dont see the reference tab? What tabs do you see?

You need to create a resource reference. Open your deployment descriptor. Go to the references tab and add a resource reference jdbc/auto of type javax.activation.DataSource. Then the message should go away.

On was 6.0 running on as/400 some of my images are not displaying. Deploying the same ear file to was5.1 and everything works great. On WAS6.0 I am getting the following exception. If anyone knows how to resolve this I would appreciate it.

[3/27/06 14:29:13:334 CST] 00000024 WebContainer E SRVE0232E: Internal Server Error.
Exception Message: [java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.srt.SRTServletResponse.setDefaultResponseEncoding(SRTServletResponse.java:637)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.srt.SRTServletResponse.start(SRTServletResponse.java:518)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.srt.SRTConnectionContext.start(SRTConnectionContext.java:48)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WebContainer.handleRequest(WebContainer.java:1673)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.channel.WCChannelLink.ready(WCChannelLink.java:79)
at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.handleDiscrimination(HttpInboundLink.java:419)
at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.handleNewInformation(HttpInboundLink.java:317)
at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.ready(HttpInboundLink.java:274)
at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.NewConnectionInitialReadCallback.sendToDiscriminaters(NewConnectionInitialReadCallback.java:169)
at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.NewConnectionInitialReadCallback.complete(NewConnectionInitialReadCallback.java:99)
at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.WorkQueueManager.requestComplete(WorkQueueManager.java:537)
at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.WorkQueueManager.attemptIO(WorkQueueManager.java:593)
at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.WorkQueueManager.workerRun(WorkQueueManager.java:946)
at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.WorkQueueManager$Worker.run(WorkQueueManager.java:1038)
at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:1455)

Those preparing for this it is HARD.

Things to know.

1) Know the JSR 168 Spec. This is a BIG portion of the test
2) Know RAD / Portal Wizards
3) Know Portal Remote Debugging

Good luck to all.

Does anyone have any ideas? Should I post this to a different forum?

I have assisted in building a website that schools around the country use to purchase books. One school in particular has a firewall and the administrator has blocked any url addresses with the word "bound" in it. Unfortunately the company I am working with has the word "bound" in their name. Therefore this school cannot see the website to purchase books online. Outside of having their administrator open the firewall just to our IP address is there any other way I could resolve this issue? Our concern with opening the IP address is that there may be other schools facing the same issue.

I have not yet reported these problems to either Sun or IBM. I wanted to see if anyone had run into anything similar first. Since it is not any of our custom application code it has been difficult to debug.

All,

I have built a website that has been implemented on AS/400 running on WebSphere 5.0. In the SystemOut.log I am continually seeing the following 2 errors. Does anyone know what these are and how I can fix them so that they stop showing up in the logs.

8/16/04 12:53:30:521 UTC] 6ffce5d5 WebGroup E SRVE0026E: [Servlet Error]-[SimpleFileServlet]: com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppErrorReport: Method PROPFIND is not defined in RFC 2068 and is not supported by the Servlet API java/lang/Throwable.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V+4 (Throwable.java:85) java/lang/Exception.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V+1 (Exception.java:33) javax/servlet/ServletException.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V+0 (ServletException.java:107) com/ibm/websphere/servlet/error/ServletErrorReport.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V+0 (ServletErrorReport.java:42) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/webapp/WebAppErrorReport.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V+0 (WebAppErrorReport.java:32) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/srt/SRTServletResponseContext.sendError(ILjava/lang/String;)V+0 (SRTServletResponseContext.java:129) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/srt/SRTServletResponse.sendError(ILjava/lang/String;)V+0 (SRTServletResponse.java:640) javax/servlet/http/HttpServlet.service(Ljavax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest;Ljavax/servlet/http/HttpServletResponse;)V+0 (HttpServlet.java:733) javax/servlet/http/HttpServlet.service(Ljavax/servlet/ServletRequest;Ljavax/servlet/ServletResponse;)V+0 (HttpServlet.java:848) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/servlet/StrictServletInstance.doService(Ljavax/servlet/ServletRequest;Ljavax/servlet/ServletResponse;)V+0 (StrictServletInstance.java:105) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/servlet/StrictLifecycleServlet._service(Ljavax/servlet/ServletRequest;Ljavax/servlet/ServletResponse;)V+0 (StrictLifecycleServlet.java:160) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/servlet/IdleServletState.service(Lcom/ibm/ws/webcontainer/servlet/StrictLifecycleServlet;Ljavax/servlet/ServletRequest;Ljavax/servlet/ServletResponse;)V+0 (StrictLifecycleServlet.java:313) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/servlet/StrictLifecycleServlet.service(Ljavax/servlet/ServletRequest;Ljavax/servlet/ServletResponse;)V+0 (StrictLifecycleServlet.java:116) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/servlet/ServletInstance.service(Ljavax/servlet/ServletRequest;Ljavax/servlet/ServletResponse;Lcom/ibm/ws/webcontainer/webapp/WebAppServletInvocationEvent;)V+0 (ServletInstance.java:250) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/servlet/ValidServletReferenceState.dispatch(Lcom/ibm/ws/webcontainer/servlet/ServletInstanceReference;Ljavax/servlet/ServletRequest;Ljavax/servlet/ServletResponse;Lcom/ibm/ws/webcontainer/webapp/WebAppServletInvocationEvent;)V+0 (ValidServletReferenceState.java:42) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/servlet/ServletInstanceReference.dispatch(Ljavax/servlet/ServletRequest;Ljavax/servlet/ServletResponse;Lcom/ibm/ws/webcontainer/webapp/WebAppServletInvocationEvent;)V+0 (ServletInstanceReference.java:40) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/webapp/WebAppRequestDispatcher.handleWebAppDispatch(Ljavax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest;Ljavax/servlet/http/HttpServletResponse;)V+0 (WebAppRequestDispatcher.java:814) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/webapp/WebAppRequestDispatcher.dispatch(Ljavax/servlet/ServletRequest;Ljavax/servlet/ServletResponse;Z)V+0 (WebAppRequestDispatcher.java:258) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/webapp/WebAppRequestDispatcher.forward(Ljavax/servlet/ServletRequest;Ljavax/servlet/ServletResponse;)V+0 (WebAppRequestDispatcher.java:146) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/srt/WebAppInvoker.doForward(Ljavax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest;Ljavax/servlet/http/HttpServletResponse;)V+0 (WebAppInvoker.java:79) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/srt/WebAppInvoker.handleInvocationHook(Ljava/lang/Object;)V+0 (WebAppInvoker.java:157) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/cache/invocation/CachedInvocation.handleInvocation(Ljava/lang/Object;)V+0 (CachedInvocation.java:66) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/srp/ServletRequestProcessor.dispatchByURI(Ljava/lang/String;Lcom/ibm/ws/webcontainer/srp/ISRPConnection;)V+0 (ServletRequestProcessor.java:71) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/oselistener/OSEListenerDispatcher.service(Lcom/ibm/ws/webcontainer/oselistener/api/IOSEConnection;)V+0 (OSEListener.java:317) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/http/HttpConnection.handleRequest()V+0 (HttpConnection.java:56) com/ibm/ws/http/HttpConnection.readAndHandleRequest(Z)V+0 (HttpConnection.java:570) com/ibm/ws/http/HttpConnection.run()V+0 (HttpConnection.java:377) com/ibm/ws/util/ThreadPool$Worker.run()V+0 (ThreadPool.java:645) and the second error is: [8/15/04 18:05:05:182 UTC] c7024df2 WebGroup E SRVE0026E: [Servlet Error]-[]: java.lang.NullPointerException com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/webapp/WebAppRequestDispatcher.dispatch(Ljavax/servlet/ServletRequest;Ljavax/servlet/ServletResponse;Z)V+0 (WebAppRequestDispatcher.java:258) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/webapp/WebAppRequestDispatcher.forward(Ljavax/servlet/ServletRequest;Ljavax/servlet/ServletResponse;)V+0 (WebAppRequestDispatcher.java:146) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/srt/WebAppInvoker.doForward(Ljavax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest;Ljavax/servlet/http/HttpServletResponse;)V+0 (WebAppInvoker.java:79) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/srt/WebAppInvoker.handleInvocationHook(Ljava/lang/Object;)V+0 (WebAppInvoker.java:157) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/cache/invocation/CachedInvocation.handleInvocation(Ljava/lang/Object;)V+0 (CachedInvocation.java:66) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/cache/invocation/CacheableInvocationContext.invoke(Ljava/lang/Object;)V+0 (CacheableInvocationContext.java:102) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/srp/ServletRequestProcessor.dispatchByURI(Ljava/lang/String;Lcom/ibm/ws/webcontainer/srp/ISRPConnection;)V+0 (ServletRequestProcessor.java:71) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/oselistener/OSEListenerDispatcher.service(Lcom/ibm/ws/webcontainer/oselistener/api/IOSEConnection;)V+0 (OSEListener.java:317) com/ibm/ws/webcontainer/http/HttpConnection.handleRequest()V+0 (HttpConnection.java:56) com/ibm/ws/http/HttpConnection.readAndHandleRequest(Z)V+0 (HttpConnection.java:570) com/ibm/ws/http/HttpConnection.run()V+0 (HttpConnection.java:377) com/ibm/ws/util/ThreadPool$Worker.run()V+0 (ThreadPool.java:645)

I was emailed a PDF file as my certificate.