If you use ServletFilters that are mapped to URLs/resources that don’t physically exist (e.g. such as Paul Tuckey’s UrlRewriteFilter) IBM WebSphere 6.1 will answer such requests with “Error 404: SRVE0190E”. If WebSphere runs in trace mode you’ll see a FileNotFoundException in the log file. How to work around SRVE0190E This is yet another idiotic WebSphere […]
This is a follow-up for the Beware of WebSphere admins post just below – read it to find out how this relates to the jsessionid discussion My first immediate conclusion after the described deployment problems was to ban the use of the jsession cookie in future applications. If the application always includes the jsessionid parameter […]
A lot can go wrong when you deploy a simple Java EE application in IBM WebSphere – even if the application needs nothing but a Servlet container. We recently shipped a JEE application to the customer. Although it was packaged in an EAR file, because the customer required it, it needs nothing but what the […]