This section provides information about how to troubleshoot a problem with your
IBM software.
- Installing maintenance packages
- This topic describes how to use the IBM Update Installer for WebSphere
Software to install interim fixes, fix packs, and refresh packs. The Update
Installer for WebSphere Software is also known as the update installer program,
the UpdateInstaller program, and the Update installation wizard
- Debugging applications
- To debug your application, you must use your application development tool
(such as Rational Application Developer) to create a Java project or a project
with a Java nature. You must then import the program that you want to debug into
the project. By following these steps, you can import the WebSphere Application
Server examples into a Java project.
- Adding logging and tracing to your application
- Designers and developers of applications that run with or under WebSphere Application
Server, such as servlets, JavaServer Pages (JSP) files , enterprise beans, client applications,
and their supporting classes, might find it useful to use Java logging for generating their
application logging.
- Diagnosing problems (using diagnosis tools)
- The purpose of this section is to aid you in understanding why your enterprise application,
application server, or WebSphere Application Server is not working and to help you resolve the
problem. Unlike performance tuning which focuses on solving problems associated with slow
processes and un-optimized performance, problem determination focuses on finding solutions
to functional problems.
- Troubleshooting WebSphere applications
- For various components that might have failed, this section summarizes how
to detect, confirm, and solve the resulting problem. The instructions are
specific to various application types. For example, you can focus on troubleshooting
access problems for an enterprise bean application, or a problem that presented itself
as soon as you enabled security. In the navigation tree, expand
Troubleshooting and support > Troubleshooting WebSphere applications to view the contents of this section.