Re: Administering HTTP servers and JVMs

["Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Booth, it's simple, you open the integrated management console, select the website you're interested in and select the runtime version you need, it's right there in a drop down, couldn't be simpler... Oh wait, I'm sorry, that's how it works in a unified, integrated, top-to-bottom stack like IIS and .Net... In a multi-vendor, multi-environment, multi-platform environment like websphere, tomcat, apache, java and i, I have no idea, but I hear it's got a great TCO and ease of use... 
<DUCKS AND RUNS>

-Walden

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-----Original Message-----
From: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 08 October, 2008 21:17
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [WEB400] Administering HTTP servers and JVMs

Administering HTTP servers and JVMs.

As I have said, I am an i5 and a  green screen bigot.  I have to get 
past that.  So, please bear with me when I say wrong-headed things.

My goal is to run a series of applications on the i5 HTTP server.  These 
applications will be delivered as .war files and need to run in a jvm 
1.5 or higher environment.   The machine we are working with is V5R4 with:

    IBM Developer Kit for Java
    Java Developer Kit 1.3 
    Java Developer Kit 1.4 
    Java Developer Kit 5.0 
    J2SE 5.0 32 bit        

I want to use the IBM Web  Administration  for i5/OS  at port 2001.  I 
mean, isn't that really where I am supposed to be heading?   But I can't 
find a place to tell it I want to use jdk 5.0.  There is a dropdown box 
on the Tomcat Settings page but it only allows 1.3. 

Earlier posts have suggested I use SystemDefault.properties  file but 
that made no difference that I could see.  The manual has references to 
the jvm, and that all installed versions can be started and run at the 
same time.  But no where that I can find  says how.

I am reminded of the Russian recipe for Bear Soup.    "First, catch a 
bear...."

Any pointers would be appreciated.   (Simon, I made the change I think 
you suggested in QIBM... workers.properties.  That didn't do much good 
for me. )

Thanks to all that have made suggestions.  I do appreciate them.