Re: Administering HTTP servers and JVMs -- WEB400

<sigh>

I'm almost done with these lists. They're as bad as watching CNN "polling". But I digress.

WebSphere, Java and the i are an integrated stack. Unlike the Microsoft approach, they also allow you to run various components on different platforms as needed. WebSphere administration is simple. The JVM supported depends on the version of WebSphere. I assume you're on a supported release, so you should be running WebSphere V6.1, which by default uses the classic JVM (you can force it to use the 32-bit JVM if need be).

Go to the admin console. Create a WebSphere V6.1 server. Go to Manage Applications. Point to your WAR file. Install it. Done.

Now, if you have a weird situation where your code won't run on the default JVM for WebSphere, then you have tio do some

Joe

Booth, it's simple, you open the integrated management console, select the website you're interested in and select the runtime version you need, it's right there in a drop down, couldn't be simpler... Oh wait, I'm sorry, that's how it works in a unified, integrated, top-to-bottom stack like IIS and .Net... In a multi-vendor, multi-environment, multi-platform environment like websphere, tomcat, apache, java and i, I have no idea, but I hear it's got a great TCO and ease of use... <DUCKS AND RUNS>

-Walden

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-----Original Message-----
From: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 08 October, 2008 21:17
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [WEB400] Administering HTTP servers and JVMs

Administering HTTP servers and JVMs.

As I have said, I am an i5 and a green screen bigot. I have to get past that. So, please bear with me when I say wrong-headed things.

My goal is to run a series of applications on the i5 HTTP server. These applications will be delivered as .war files and need to run in a jvm 1.5 or higher environment. The machine we are working with is V5R4 with:

IBM Developer Kit for Java
Java Developer Kit 1.3 Java Developer Kit 1.4 Java Developer Kit 5.0 J2SE 5.0 32 bit
I want to use the IBM Web Administration for i5/OS at port 2001. I mean, isn't that really where I am supposed to be heading? But I can't find a place to tell it I want to use jdk 5.0. There is a dropdown box on the Tomcat Settings page but it only allows 1.3.
Earlier posts have suggested I use SystemDefault.properties file but that made no difference that I could see. The manual has references to the jvm, and that all installed versions can be started and run at the same time. But no where that I can find says how.

I am reminded of the Russian recipe for Bear Soup. "First, catch a bear...."

Any pointers would be appreciated. (Simon, I made the change I think you suggested in QIBM... workers.properties. That didn't do much good for me. )

Thanks to all that have made suggestions. I do appreciate them.