Sander Fieten

Hi,
we have encountered the following behaviour in WebSphere:
We have a CMP entity bean. In its ejbCreate method not all fields are set.
Now we create an instance of this EJB and use setter methods to set fields not set in the ejbCreate method.
When we create a second instance of the EJB the fields not set in the ejbCreate have the values set by the calls to the setter methods of instance one.
It looks like WebSphere caches the enity beans somewhere and mixes the values when not explicitly set. Is this expected behaviour?
greetings
Sander

Shireen,
did you include set the j2ee.jar file in your classpath?
It can be found in the lib subdirectory of the WebSphere installation, for example D:\WebSphere\AppServer\lib\
Are using this code in a client application or in a component running in a WebSphere container i.e. servlet, EJB? When you run in WebSphere itself you can use the default constructor of InitialContext.
Greeting
Sander Fieten
[This message has been edited by Sander Fieten (edited January 03, 2002).]

Hi,
you should indeed compact the repository. But before you do so you should version the package that contained the class and then Purge the old version. Only when the package is purged from the repository it will be removed during a compact.
Greetings
Sander Fieten

I'm looking for information about the combination of WebSphere Application Server and Microsoft ISA server because of a problem we found in our application. The only thing I know about the MS product is that it is a kind of proxy server based on rules.
Our application uses Sessions to hold data between several screens and at the last screen the data is saved to both the database and MQSeries.
All works fine when the browser does not use the proxy for the our apps http server. But when using the proxy the application will fail when processing information from an html form with a NullPointerException. It looks it will stop at the same point every time.
Does anybody know more on the use of the MS proxy in combination with WebSphere or has anybody seen similar problems?
Any help or information is appreciated!!!
Regards
Sander Fieten
FIETEN IT

Daman,
it would be nice if you can provide us more info!!
tia
Sander

My team is currently developing an intranet application that is going to be deployed on WAS 3.5 running on the Win2000 platform. As W2K is used as the standard platform there is already an Active Directory server in place.
We think that it would be nice if we use a directory server to store all kind of configuration data. But we don't know if we can use Active Directory for that purpose.
tia
Sander

Hi,
I'm using a simple form with two fields, one of them being of FILE type. This file must be multipart/form-data encoded when send to the server.
How can I easily get the values of the form fields, including the uploaded file. Must I read the InputStream and decode it myself?

Suppose I have two XML documents based on different DTDs and I want to merge them into one document for further processing.
How can I do that without destroying the well-formedness and validness?

greetings
Sander

Hi,
I think that the XML files are translated to HTML files on the server before they are send to Netscape. So it only looks like you're viewing an XML file.
greetings
Sander

Hi,
I've looked on the JDOM project page www.jdom.org , and what I've seen it just looks like another parser. I haven't looked into it further, but why should I use JDOM instead of other parsers?
greetings
Sander
[This message has been edited by Sander Fieten (edited March 16, 2001).]

I would suggest that you maintain the state in which the user transaction is as Session information. Then you can check if the action is allowed to occur in the current State of the users transaction.
greetings
Sander

Lex,
you can change the properties for the Servlet Engine in the default.servlet_engine file which can be found in the ../project_resources/IBM Websphere Test Environment/properties directory.
Change the <document-root= ...> so it points to your new root folder. Notice that this only applies to fetching static content and JSP files.
greetings
Sander

Hi,
I assume the question is about the maximum length of an URL for getting data using the GET method specified in the HTTP protocol?
In this spec no limit is given for URLs. It's stated that a server must be able to handle URLs for all resources they serve and that can be generated by GET based forms they serve.
See at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt for the complete HTTP spec.
greetings
Sander