RE: RE: Who Uses WebSphere Express?

If you fire up the actual admin console application (not the pain in the butt 
admin tool in the web server admin GUI), there's and option under the 
"Environment" menu option called "Update Web Server Plugin". Click that link 
and then click the "OK" button. The documentation is in the InfoCenter 
(http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/index.htm?info/rzamy/50/express.htm).

FWIW, I got burnt badly by the admin tools that are part of the web server GUI 
earlier this year and I now try to avoid them at all costs. The problem I ran 
into is that it caches information from WAS and it's very easy when installing 
updated WAR files to get the information out of sync (all it takes is 
mis-typing the context and these tools quit working). The actual console app is 
much faster at doing everything but it has a bunch more options that are, to 
say the least, overwhelming at first (especially when updating or installing 
new WAR files). Fortunately, the defaults work well and after the first app or 
two, it wasn't an issue.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Gibbons, Michael
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 9:52 AM
To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: [WEB400] RE: Who Uses WebSphere Express?


How do you regenerate the plug-in config file. Do you know of documentation
on this?

Thanks in Advance!


-----Original Message-----
From: Haas, Matt [mailto:Matt.Haas@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 8:46 AM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: [WEB400] RE: Who Uses WebSphere Express?


<snip>
One of the big trouble is that we can't update/add webfaced converted 
screen (and more other j2ee components) 
without restarting the entire application... and the users get "sad".
<snip>

I don't know if this is a difference between 5.0 and 5.1, but with 5.1,
regenerating the plug-in config file lets the server see new applications
without a restart. So far, the only thing I've found that requires a restart
is changing virtual hosts.

Matt