Comments on: Remote deploy to Websphere - Take 3

By: Stef P

Stef P — Wed, 31 May 2006 22:00:36 +0000

I would like to ask you something concerning the headless targets, e.g. “headless.import”. The tasks that exist in its body, for example “eclipse.refreshLocal” and “ProjectImport” are not core ant tasks (right?). Are they eclipse’s extensions or what? Where can i find some info about them?
Thanks, im trying to understand the buildfile im working on:))

By: Sanjeet

Sanjeet — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 02:24:44 +0000

Hello,
I am trying to run the example
C:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\SDP\6.0\rwd\eclipse\plugins\com.ibm.etools.j2ee.ant_6.0.0.1 provided by IBM. It is giving me error

[projectBuild] Building: AdderJAVA (Done)
[projectSetBuild] ERROR: [0]. Type=org.eclipse.jdt.core.problem Line=0 Resource=\AdderJAVA
[projectSetBuild] ERROR: [0].. Message=The project was not built since its build path is incomplete.
Cannot find the class file for java.lang.Object. Fix the build path then try building this project
[projectSetBuild] ERROR: [1]. Type=org.eclipse.jdt.core.problem Line=1 Resource=\AdderJAVA\com\ib
m\etools\ant\extras\sample\AdderJava.java
[projectSetBuild] ERROR: [1].. Message=The type java.lang.Object cannot be resolved. It is indirectl
y referenced from required .class files

I configured these properties only:
classpathVariable.WAS_60_INSTALLDIR=C:/Program Files/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer1
targetRuntime.targetLocation=C:/Program Files/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer1
set WORKSPACE=C:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\SDP\6.0\rwd\eclipse\plugins\com.ibm.etools.j2ee.ant_6.0.0.1\Example

Do I need to configure more properties? Why I am getting these error?

Please advice me,

Regards,
Sanjeet.

By: xiuxiu

xiuxiu — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 19:17:19 +0000

I just start the topic. And I am also willing to use ws_ant or wsadmin to complete the deployment.but Tamer’s weblog really disappointed me.Anyway, I still want to have a try. Wish to see the good result.

By: Tamer

Tamer — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:57:36 +0000

Absolutely! That was the idea about using ANT in the first place (IDE Independency). But, using IBM supplied ANT tasks meant that you?re tied to WSAD/RAD environment.
For instance, placing a project under the workspace directory is not enough for the project to be comprehended by those ANT tasks. The project has to be explicitly “imported” into the “workspace” using another ANT task.
I’d really love to see if anyone has a simpler approach for deploying WAS applications remotely.
Sorry Youssef, I didn’t understand the part of remote debugging. May be if you wish to mail me about it?

By: Youssef

Youssef — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:01:41 +0000

Thanks, but you replied on the second part of my comment. The first was that I am thinking that the ant biuld should be IDE-independent so that you might use WSAD, eclipse 3.x or Netbeans. for debugging, i used to use remote debugging feature JPDA which worked great for me.

By: Tamer

Tamer — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:18:37 +0000

Well Youssef: I think if you’re going to rely on WAS tasks anyway, then you’re at IBM’s mercy. It looks like their tasks are strongly dependent on WSAD/RAD workspaces. Moreover, some of the common ANT tasks might produce files that are “incompatible” with WAS (as was produced via the ear task) - you might want to dig into the differences. HTH

By: youssef

youssef — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:58:38 +0000

I am thinking of doing the same in my current project (customizing some Siebel application that runs on WAS and i have a WSAD workspace) However, I wanted to follow another approach! I was thinking that my ANT build file should be IDE independent (using regular javac for compiling and xdoclet to generate DDs) and only use the tasks related to WAS. What do you think of that?

By: Subhan

Subhan — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:16:12 +0000

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