If you are trying to force basic authentication to your web project resources in Rational Application Developer v6.1, ensure that you explicitly specify ‘BASIC’ as your authentication mechanism in the RAD Security Editor. If you do not, you can get yourself into a weird situation where defaults on one application server cause your basic authentication […]
Adding pre-built JAR files to your EAR in Rational Application Developer
I have the following jars that I want to include on the classpath of my EAR: jaxb-api.jar jaxb-impl.jar jsr172_1.0_api.jar log4j-1.2.15.jar spring.jar For my Spring/JAXB/Log4J solution. I tried to look into the deployment descriptors to place prebuilt ears but I could not find it. My solution was to open the MANIFEST.MF file inside the EJB project. […]
Rational Application Developer and Oracle Databases – PL/SQL Support Flakey
It seems like the IBM tools (Rational Software Architect & Rational Application Developer) aren’t very good at communicating with an Oracle database. I’m in the ‘Data’ view, attempting to create a stored procedure. When I ‘CREATE’ the procedure, I was getting warnings but no message about what the warning/error actually was. I fought with the […]