[opencms-dev] Opencms 6.0.0 on WebSphere 5.1

[Thomas Matal]

Hi all,
I installed OpenCms 6.0.0 on WebSphere 5.1.1.4. Installation was fine. I
then found, that the known issues are still in the new version - seems to
be Murphys law:-(( .However most of the other functions seems to work fine.
Thanks to the developers for the good software and the loads of new
functions in V6.0. Find below some infos on what I had to change to fix
some problems with WebSphere.

Issues:
1. (big issue!!!) AdvancedProperties Dialog does not work when opened from
properties dialog with button "advanced". An empty window is displayed. I
found it works for some xml contents with my own xsds(it is displayed
directly when choosing "properties").
2. Leaving sourcecode editor leads to empty page

 I could not debug the reason for the problems . Does anyone know the
solution to the problems above? Thanks in advance..

Now some hints about OpenCms and WebSphere:
- during installation of war: set context root = opencms (else you have to
change web.xml) and stick to the defaults of the wizard
- if log/debug outputs do not work: remove commons-logging-1.0.4.jar  from
lib directory
- copy jakarta-oro_2.0.8.zip from /Web-Inf/lib to <WAS-root>/lib (this
resolves some conflicts with library jython.jar, which can not be solved
with the classloader policies)
- debug can be activated under Adminconsole -> Troubleshooting -> Logging
and Tracing -> Server1 -> Diagnostic Trace-> Configuration:  Trace
specification org.opencms.*=all=enabled

Cheers,
Thomas