WebSphere V3.5 Handbook

WebSphere V3.5 Handbook

by David Artus, Ashok Iyengar, Simon Kapadia, Mohamed Ramdani, James Roca, Chenxi Zhang, Ken Ueno, Larry Brown, Larry Clark, Chris Gerken, Geoff Hambrick, Stacy Joines, Sung-Ik Son, Lorrie Tomek, Jim VanOosten
Released January 2001
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: 0130416568

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Book description

WebSphere Application Server V3.5 is the latest version of the IBM open standards-based e-business application deployment environment. This redbook provides detailed insights into the product’s architecture and a wealth of practical advice about how best to exploit WebSphere.

At the heart of the book are detailed step-by-step descriptions of the tasks you carry out to deploy and execute your applications.

The redbook places these task descriptions in a broader context by providing discussions of possible application architectures, deployment topologies, best practices and problem determination.

These discussions are underpinned by clear descriptions of concepts and technologies including the Servlet, JSP and EJB APIs, security, and transactions.

The redbook also contains details of the support for the Servlet API V2.2 and JSP V1.1 APIs introduced by WebSphere V3.5 Fix Pack 2.

Table of contents

  1. Copyright
  2. Preface
  3. Overview of WebSphere Application Server V3.5
    1. What is WebSphere Application Server?
    2. WebSphere Application Server architecture overview
    3. Standard Edition
    4. Advanced Edition
    5. Open standards
  4. What’s new in WebSphere V3.5?
    1. Installation
    2. InfoCenter
    3. Migration
    4. Java 2 support
    5. Security
    6. New and improved administration tools
    7. New and improved connection pooling
    8. New Resource Analyzer
    9. New Log Analyzer
    10. New platform support
    11. New database support
    12. New Web Server support
    13. Conclusion
  5. WebSphere programming model
    1. Analysis of an example application
    2. Application components
    3. Control flow mechanisms
    4. Data flow sources
    5. Chapter summary
  6. WebSphere components
    1. WebSphere Administrative Server
    2. Application server
    3. What is an enterprise application?
    4. WebSphere administrative interfaces
  7. Servlet support
    1. What is a servlet?
    2. How servlets work
    3. WebSphere and servlets
    4. Writing a simple servlet example
    5. Deploying the example servlet under WebSphere
    6. Internal servlets
  8. JSP support
    1. Using JSP to present dynamic content
    2. The collaboration between form, servlet, and JSP
    3. Rapid development using JSP
    4. JSP life cycle
    5. Administering JSP files
    6. Batch compiling JSP files
    7. JSP 1.1
    8. Configuring and running your JSPs
    9. Custom tag examples
  9. Session support
    1. V3.02.x vs. V3.5 overview
    2. Session feature overview
    3. Session performance considerations
    4. Alternatives to session support: cookies
  10. Servlet V2.2 in WebSphere V3.5.2
    1. WebSphere support for Servlet API V2.2
    2. Selecting Servlet V2.2 support
    3. Comparison of the Servlet API versions
    4. Multiple error pages
    5. Welcome file lists
    6. The Web Application Archive (WAR)
    7. Deploying an application from a WAR file
  11. Using JNDI to access LDAP
    1. What is JNDI?
    2. Naming concepts
    3. JNDI specifications
    4. JNDI sample application
  12. JDBC 2.0 support
    1. JDBC 2.0 Core API
    2. JDBC 2.0 Optional Extension API
    3. Administration of data sources
    4. Best practices for JDBC 2.0 data access with WebSphere
    5. Recovery from DB failures
    6. Reference information
  13. Enterprise Java Services
    1. Configuring Enterprise Java Services
    2. Installing an EJB into a container
    3. Stateless session beans
    4. Stateful session beans
    5. Container managed persistence (CMP) entity beans
    6. WebSphere EJB security
  14. Transactions
    1. Transaction basics
    2. Java and transactions
    3. Enterprise JavaBeans distributed transaction support
    4. EJB concurrency control
    5. Settings based on EJB usage
    6. Transaction exception handling
    7. WebSphere family interoperability
    8. Conclusion
  15. XML and WebSphere
    1. XML overview
    2. Using XML in WebSphere
    3. An XML example
    4. XML basics
    5. XML and Web browsers: XSL and CSS
    6. Programming with XML
    7. Summary
  16. Application deployment
    1. Samples we used
    2. Before configuration
    3. Create a virtual host
    4. Create a JDBC driver and data source
    5. Create an application server and other basic resources
    6. Placing source files
    7. Add Servlet
    8. Create enterprise beans
    9. Verification of the servlet and EJB
    10. Create an enterprise application
    11. Verification of an enterprise application
    12. Deployment and classpaths
  17. WebSphere security
    1. Application security
    2. WebSphere security model
    3. What’s new in WebSphere V3.5 security
    4. Using client certificate based authentication with WebSphere
    5. WebSphere and LDAP servers
    6. Custom challenge
  18. Topologies selection
    1. Topology selection criteria
    2. Vertical scaling with WebSphere workload management
    3. HTTP server separation from the application server
    4. Scaling WebSphere in a three-tier environment
    5. Horizontally scaling Web servers with WebSphere
    6. One WebSphere domain vs. many
    7. Multiple applications within one node vs. one application per node
    8. Closing thoughts on topologies
  19. Workload management
    1. Cloning
    2. WLM
  20. Administrative console
    1. About WebSphere Administrative Console
    2. In conclusion
  21. Web console
    1. About Web console
    2. Web console functionality
    3. In conclusion
  22. The WebSphere Control Program (WSCP)
    1. Command line administration
    2. Tcl language fundamentals
    3. Invoking WSCP
    4. Command syntax of WSCP
    5. Example WSCP procedures
    6. Interactive administration with WSCP
    7. Troubleshooting with WSCP
    8. Limitations and additional information
    9. Additional resources
  23. XMLConfig
    1. Introduction to XML and XMLConfig
    2. XMLConfig components
    3. XMLConfig new features
    4. XML: a suitable markup language for WebSphere
    5. Customizing XML for the WebSphere XMLConfig tool
    6. XMLConfig examples and uses
  24. WebSphere sample programs
    1. How to obtain the samples?
    2. WebSphere samples matrix
    3. WebSphere samples installation
    4. WebSphere samples location
    5. WebSphere WSsamplesDB2_app Web application
    6. Database configuration
    7. WSsamplesDB2_app User Profile sample
    8. Sample Enterprise JavaBeans configuration
    9. WebSphere Standard Edition samples
    10. Sample InstantDB configuration
    11. Standard and Advanced Edition samples listing
  25. Problem determination
    1. The problem determination process
    2. Messages
    3. The format of log and trace files
    4. WebSphere log files
    5. The trace facility
    6. Object level trace (OLT) and the IBM distributed debugger
  26. Log Analyzer
    1. Log Analyzer overview
    2. Downloading and installing the Log Analyzer
    3. Using the Log Analyzer to view the activity.log
    4. Using showlog to view the activity.log
    5. Configuring the activity.log
    6. Display log entries in different groupings
    7. Analyze action
    8. Using the Log Analyzer to view the ring buffer dump
    9. Updating the symptom database
    10. Saving logs as an XML file
  27. Resource Analyzer
    1. About Resource Analyzer
    2. What is collected and analyzed?
    3. Resource Analyzer functionality
    4. Levels of data collection
    5. Resource Analyzer requirements
    6. Starting the Resource Analyzer
    7. Working with the analyzer
    8. Resource Analyzer with WebSphere V3.5.2
    9. Resource Analyzer documentation
  28. Migration
    1. About the Migration Assistant
    2. Main steps in WebSphere migration
    3. Migration Assistant panels
    4. Files that are saved during migration
    5. What is left to be done?
    6. Migration of WebSphere V2.0.3.x to WebSphere V3.5
    7. Migration Assistant documentation
  29. Installation steps
    1. Planning
    2. Installation steps overview
    3. Uninstallation of WebSphere Application Server
  30. Remote Sybase connectivity
    1. Sybase jConnect Client
  31. XML sample programs
    1. Instructions for setting up and running the XML demo: Web Client
    2. Instructions for setting up and running the XML demo: Java Client
  32. JNDI sample programs
    1. JNDI sample files
    2. Deploy JNDI sample program to default_app
    3. Run the JNDI sample
  33. Big3 application
    1. Big3 - small insurance application
    2. Object interaction diagram
    3. Install Big3
    4. Test the configuration
    5. Big3 application directory structure
  34. The admin.config file definitions
  35. Using the additional material
    1. Using the CD-ROM
    2. Locating the additional material on the Internet
    3. Using the Web material
  36. Special notices
  37. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. IBM Redbooks collections
    3. Other resources
    4. Referenced Web sites
  38. How to get IBM Redbooks
    1. IBM Redbooks fax order form
  39. Back cover
  40. Index

Product information

  • Title: WebSphere V3.5 Handbook
  • Author(s): David Artus, Ashok Iyengar, Simon Kapadia, Mohamed Ramdani, James Roca, Chenxi Zhang, Ken Ueno, Larry Brown, Larry Clark, Chris Gerken, Geoff Hambrick, Stacy Joines, Sung-Ik Son, Lorrie Tomek, Jim VanOosten
  • Release date: January 2001
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: 0130416568