WebSphere v4 is available for download (NT/2000 and Redhat). It's free for development use and IBM isn't releasing this option for V.4 to the general public until next week. Also included is 60-day free access to the online support.

Some highlights of v4:
- Open standards includeing XML and full J2EE-certification
- First Web Services-ready app server with SOAP, UDDI and WSDL.
- Upgraded Java Message Service support (JMS) to JMS-XA through MQ
- An implementation of Java 2 Connectivity (J2C) and an enhanced set of application adapters for SAP, PeopleSoft, CICS, IMS host integration, etc.
- New Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) cache

http://www.ibm.com/websphere/welcome

You can find a quick review of WAS4.0 and try the AdminClient on my site at www.websphere-world.com

Hi:

In WAS 4.0 - there is no need to use PortableRemoteObject.narrow() - is this feature
compliant to EJB spec?

Thanks

Tieu Chu

Both direct class casting and PortableRemoteObject.narrow() works. It's just a convenience method.

No, and you should not use it because of that. Most IDEs and even products like emacs allow you to paste the code in, so stay standard until they change it.

Richard

You should (according to the spec) use it for all remote objects (i.e. everything with EJB 1.1). With EJB 2.0 you don't have to use it with local EJBs - in fact you shouldn't.
Vlad

DOes anybody deployed Sun's petstore 1.1.2 version on WebSphere 4.0? I would appreciate if you can reply with deployment instructions and deployment descriptors.

You can find the PetStore installation steps on my site now. www.websphere-world.com

Billy.

What version of the EJB Spec does WAS 4 support?

What are the possibilities of developing an app which can be deployed do both Websphere and Weblogic with the same code base?

TIA,
Michelle

Does anyone have pointers to information about the "extras"?

    - JMS Listener / MDB support
    - the "business rule bean" support
    - the "business process/workflow" preview

Any links would be appreciated

I downloaded from IBM site but can't install it. It keeps asking me username/password for IBM HTTP server even though I typed right username/password.

any idea?

thanks

Frank

I have experienced same problem while installing WAS 3.5 try to have the same username and the password as your NT then your server should start working.

Hi,

At the time of installation, it will ask you for a username and password which is having administrator rights in that system.
If you are using Windows NT/Windows 2000, you can give the username as "Administrator" and password will be Administrator's password.

If you have changed the password of your windows's system. ie. say you have given username as "Administrator" at the time of installation.

The pwd supplied shud have same pwd in the windows envoirmnet with administrative rights.

you can change the username/password provided for the
IBM Http Server and Application Server from
Control Panel --> Services -->

Right click on IBM HTTP Server and select properties.
There u can change the username and password.
The same way for WAS

regards,
Nirmal

yes u have to use a valid user name and password like it tells you to

I am trying to find out the distributed transaction support in WebShephere 4 Adv. single server edition. Does this version support 2pc protocol?

It (the developer version) is actually now available for download:

http://www.ibm.com/websphere/welcome1

According to IBM:

"This fully-functioning version of WebSphere Application Server, V4.0, Advanced Single Server Edition, V4.0 allows developers to test applications on WebSphere. It runs on Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 2000 and is available for use, free, for a six-month time period. Free electronic support for 60 days is included with this download."

-Sheldon

Hi all,

I installed the WAS Single Server edition without much problem. However, the sample applications under Enterprise Applications are not started! And there's no start button to start them! So I individually went into each application's properties and saw START as option whenever the server restarts. I restarted the server and still they are not started, any ideas?

Karmen