These directions worked for WebSphere 6.1.0.15. Fundamentally the
problem is the lack of JAR files in the default WebSphere CLASSPATH, or
the wrong versions. Two things are neccessary to correct this problem:
<ol><li>Adjust WebSphere application server settings</li><li>Adjust Guvnor
settings in WebSphere (the application specific settings)</li><li>Modify
the Guvnor pom.xml file to include additional classes (these classes
are not included in WebSphere, so must be included in the WAR file)</li></ol>
<p><b>Adjust WebSphere AS Settings</b><br />
I'm not certain if these custom websphere application server settings
are required, but since they are present in the working configuration,
I will document them here. The custom settings, and directions on how
to configure them, can be found at: <a rel="nofollow"
href="http://docs.jboss.org/seam/2.0.1.GA/reference/en/html/websphere.html">http://docs.jboss.org/seam/2.0.1.GA/reference/en/html/websphere.html</a><br
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General instructions for setting custom properties are found
at: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rss=180&uid=swg21284395</p>
<p><b>Adjust 'Guvnor' Application Specific Settings</b></p>
<p>In order to ensure we get the 'right' application settings, we
configure the application to load from it's own class loader first.
Directions to configure this property can be found at <a rel="nofollow"
href="https://zuxho14:9045/ibm/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.ws.console.appmanagement/urun_rapp_classload.html">https://zuxho14:9045/ibm/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.ws.console.appmanagement/urun_rapp_classload.html</a>.
Select the "<tt>Classes loaded with application class loader first"
Option.</tt></p>
<p><b>Modify Guvnor's pom.xml File</b></p>
<p>The following lines need to be added to Guvnor's pom.xml before rebuilding
Guvnor:</p>
<p> <dependency><br />
<groupId>javax.persistence</groupId><br />
<artifactId>persistence-api</artifactId><br />
<version>1.0</version><br />
</dependency></p>
<p> <dependency><br />
<groupId>javax.annotation</groupId><br />
<artifactId>jsr250-api</artifactId><br />
<version>1.0</version><br />
</dependency></p>
<p> <dependency><br />
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId><br />
<artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId><br />
<version>3.0.0.GA</version><br />
</dependency></p>
This was sufficient to get Guvnor running on 2/10/08. I did not
install this version of WebSphere, and do not know what other changes
were made before I got here. YMMV.
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