#34 Can't connect to Websphere

[Anonymous]

The MC4J classloader that is trying to make the
connection to websphere does not have all the valid
classes in its classpath... eg, getting
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
com.ibm.websphere.management.AdminClient

When configuring a connection to websphere in step2, I
selected the server location of a local websphere
installation: c:\Program Files\WebSphere. It would not
let me specify the lib directory: c:\Program
Files\WebSphere\AppServer\lib where all the websphere
jars reside.

What's the deal? Can anyone help. Thanks.

tony.dean@sas.com

[Greg Hinkle]

Logged In: YES
user_id=773314

Its a bug in the beta 7 release. Its been fixed, but I've
got a few more things to get done before I can do another
release.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Logged In: NO

I backed down to beta 5 and I am able to connect to the
websphere soap connector. However, when I mc4j performs
the QueryObjects operation a SOAP exception is returned
from websphere. From what I can gather it appears that the
javax.management.ObjectName class on the mc4j client side
is imcompatible with the same class on the websphere. I
determined that mc4jlib\JDMK\jmxri.jar, mc4jlib\JSR160
\jmxri.jar, and mx4j-jmx1.1.1.jar all have a
javax.management.ObjectName class and I disassembled
these classes and they all have the same serialVersionUID.
However the server's version in jmxc.jar does not contain an
explicit serialVersionUID so its auto-generated and it is
ofcourse different from the version on the client side hence
incompatible classes. How can I get this to work? Any
suggestions. Wait till beta 8? Pull the javax.management
classes from server over to client... what jar should I put
them in? Any help is appreciated.

[kclarke]

Logged In: YES
user_id=1387227

In the config wizard, try sepcifying the local websphere
installation as just c:\program files\WebSphere. When I
picked the root level of the WAS install (which MC4J
highlighted in bold for me) it was smart enough to bring in
all the libs from the AppServer\lib folder. Did this today
so it's fresh in my head.