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General Best Practices for WebSphere Application Environments

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:30:00 EDT

This article provides a list of general best practices to apply to any WebSphere Application Server V7 and V8 environment. However, some of the recommendations only apply to specific conditions and scenarios. These recommendations could be used to set up any WebSphere environment. All WebSphere Application processes should be running as non-admin/root user. It's not a good practice to run a process as an admin/root user. For obvious reasons, you don't want more folks to know about the admin/root password and generally the WebSphere admins are not the system admins. Create a services user account on the box and use it for the WebSphere Application's start and stop purposes.

WebSphere Datapower’s WebGUI User Authentication with LDAP Sever using RBM

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:33:17 EDT

The purpose of this document is to describe the technical integration of the WebSphere Datapower WebGUI login process with the LDAP server using Role Based Management (RBM). RBM provides a flexible and integrated means to control whether an authenticated user has the necessary privileges to access resources through access policies.

Inter-Portlet Communications

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:00:00 EDT

This article demonstrates the steps performed to implement JSR 168 compliant cooperative portlets using IBM Rational Application Developer V6.0 and WebSphere Portal Server V5.1. The article illustrates passing multiple values from source portlet to target portlet without defining complex data type inside WSDL file.

WebSphere Portal Server v5.0.2 on SuSE Linux 8 on zSeries

Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:00:00 EDT

This article provides instructions for installing IBM WebSphere Portal Server v5.0.2 on the SuSE LINUX 8 (SLES 8) operating system on IBM zSeries hardware.

Migration Guide

Tue, 28 Sep 2004 00:00:00 EDT

This article offers guidance to migrating existing servlet Struts-based applications to portlet Struts-based applications - with a minimum of steps - using WebSphere Studio Application Developer v5.0 with the WebSphere Portal v5.0 test environment

WebSphere Datapower’s WebGUI User Authentication with LDAP Sever using Role Based Management (RBM)

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

WebSphere Datapower’s WebGUI User Authentication with LDAP Sever using RBM

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

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Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

This article provides the list of general best practices apply to any WebSphere Application Server V7 and V8 environment. However, some of the recommendations only apply to specific conditions and scenarios. These recommendations could be used to setup any WebSphere environment.