[rules-users] RE: Deploying the BRMS on Web-Sphere 6.1

Wed Sep 24 05:49:43 EDT 2008

Great work Vikram.

We use seam to help insulate us from container specifics.

Please do update the wiki with your findings.

As a worst case, perhaps a client side redirect to index could help  
(so URL has a file in it). But it does sound like a websphere bug.

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On 23/09/2008, at 15:49, Vikrant Yagnick <VikrantY at mastek.com> wrote:

> Well it  is not that serious a problem as I initially thought. As I  
> mentioned the URL(adding the index.jsp) works, so there is an easy  
> work-around available.
>
> The main bug seems to be that if a URL is sent to WebSphere which  
> does not have a physical file in it the filter which should kick in  
> and re-direct does not do so. (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=180&uid=swg1PK27620 
> )
>
> This has nothing to do with the BRMS of course and is a problem for  
> all Web-Apps in this version of Websphere(We are using 6.1.0.0).  
> Adding the index.jsp to the URL seems to work fine for now. I am  
> working on the BRMS to see if there are any other side-effects of  
> this.
>
> Maybe, we should update a Wiki or troubleshooting doc on this so  
> that it is known to the community.
>
> Digging around IBM Support after my post, I have found quite a few  
> bugs mentioned in version 6.1 regarding how Servlet Filters work and  
> of some on JSF(Especially JBOSS Seam) problems with the particular  
> version. (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PK47367)
>
> IBM has however provided patches for all of them and I am going to  
> give another shot at seeing the behavior after upgrading to a higher  
> release.
>
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> ] On Behalf Of Michael Neale
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> Subject: Re: [rules-users] RE: Deploying the BRMS on Web-Sphere 6.1
>
> Hi Vikrant.
>
> well the drools-guvnor/ doesn't use a filter so much as it is default
> web.xml behaviour - you can specify a "welcome" page, which it goes to
> when the root path is supplied. If Websphere 6.1 can't even do that -
> I would say something is seriously wrong (may be a bad install?) - you
> could try it with a really simple war that just has 1 jsp and a
> web.xml and see if it happens with it? although I think:
>
> As for servlet filters - as we use Seam, it uses servlet filters to
> manage lifecycles, so yes, that could be it (if its not the above). It
> isn't possible to replace the filters, as they do a very different job
> from servlets (although the difference is subtle).
>
> What would be better would be to work out what the problem is with
> websphere and filters I think.
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Vikrant Yagnick  
> <VikrantY at mastek.com> wrote:
>> Well it clearly is a problem with filters as the following works in
>> WebSphere:
>>
>>
>>
>> http://localhost:9080/drools-guvnor/index.jsp
>>
>>
>>
>> However just typing
>>
>>
>>
>> http://localhost:9080/drools-guvnor does not and gives you the Ugly  
>> 500.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Vikrant
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Vikrant Yagnick
>> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 4:38 PM
>> To: Rules Users List
>> Subject: Deploying the BRMS on Web-Sphere 6.1
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>
>>
>> Has anyone been able to deploy the BRMS War file on Websphere 6.1.   
>> The BRMS
>> deploys without problems , but I get the following error when I try  
>> to
>> access the BRMS:
>>
>>
>>
>> Error 500:  
>> com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.extension.DefaultExtensionProcessor
>> incompatible with com.ibm.wsspi.webcontainer.servlet.IServletWrapper.
>>
>>
>>
>> However, the WebDAV servlet still works.
>>
>> I dug around a little, and have found that this problem has  
>> occurred for
>> other web-applications as well who have provided a workaround:
>>
>>
>>
>> http://wiki.merbivore.com/pages/deploying-a-merb-application-to-a-jee-container-us
>> (Read Step 7)
>>
>>
>>
>> The problem seems to be related to Servlet-Filters. These do not  
>> seem to
>> work correctly with Websphere 6.1.  In the site mentioned they have  
>> replaced
>> the servlet-filter with a normal server. (The BRMS seems to use a  
>> servlet
>> filter for /* url mapping).
>>
>>
>>
>> I have seen posts on other forums regarding the BRMS deployment on  
>> Websphere
>> 6.1 but no answers as to how to make this work.
>>
>>
>>
>> Any, help would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Vikrant
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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