Release Notes for Version 1.0.0 of the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for Enterprise JavaBeans

These release notes cover release information for version 1.0.0 of the IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Business Integration Adapter for Enterprise JavaBeansTM (EJB). They contain the following sections:

Features WebSphere Business Integration Adapters API and run time
Hardware and software requirements Known problems and workarounds
Installation and configuration Documentation

Note: Important information about this product may be available in Technical Support Flashes issued after these release notes were published. These can be found on the WebSphere Business Integration support Web site, http://www.ibm.com/websphere/integration/wbiserver/support. Select the component area of interest and search the flashes section.

Features

The WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for Enterprise JavaBeans facilitates communication and data exchange between a WebSphere Business Integration broker and an EJB deployed on an enterprise application server.

The adapter does this by enabling business processes in the broker to invoke and pass data to one or more EJB business methods and receive any data that is returned. The adapter is unidirectional, as it provides request processing functionality only. It does not perform event notification.

The adapter is designed to work with any J2EETM compliant application server based on EJB specification 2.1 and is tested with EJB samples provided with WebSphere Application Server Version 5.0. This adapter currently supports entity and session beans; however, support for message driven beans is not provided in this release. The adapter includes the Object Discovery Agent (ODA) technology, which generates application specific business objects based on the methods and arguments of the EJB home and remote interfaces.

Refer to the Adapter for Enterprise JavaBeans User Guide for detailed information about the adapter and the new features.

Hardware and software requirements

Hardware and software requirements are included in the product documentation. See Installation, migration, upgrade, and configuration information for links to those guides.

Installation and configuration

Whether you are installing the software from the CD or downloading it from the Passport Advantage Web site and installing it from a local directory, refer to the appropriate guide based on your integration broker:

These guides also include general configuration information.

For hardware and software requirements and configuration information specific to this adapter, refer to the Adapter for Enterprise JavaBeans User Guide.

WebSphere Business Integration Adapters API and run time

Make sure that you run this version of the adapter with WebSphere Business Integration Adapters run-time version 1.6.0 or later.

The WebSphere Business Integration Adapters API .jar files and the associated scripts (CWConnEnv.bat and CWODAEnv.bat for Windows(R); CWConnEnv.sh and CWODAEnv.sh for UNIX platforms) are installed by the WebSphere Business Integration Adapters API. Before installing the adapter, make sure that the WebSphere Business Integration Adapters run time is installed. If the version is not 1.6.0 or later, you must download the latest API. This section provides instructions for verifying the current version, downloading the latest version, and enabling the adapter to run on various versions of InterChange Server and Adapter Development Kit (ADK).

Verifying the the run-time version

To check the version of the run time, locate the manifest file (ProductDir\lib\WBIA.jar) and open it in a suitable Java JAR editor. Look for the following lines:

Implementation-Title: "CWConnectorAPI"
Implementation-Version: 1.6.0

The line Implementation-version indicates the installed version. If the version is not 1.6.0 or later, you must download the latest run time.

Downloading the run time

To download the latest version of the run time:

  1. Go to http://www.ibm.com.
  2. Click the Support & downloads tab.
  3. Under the Downloads heading, click Downloads & drivers.
  4. In the Enter search terms field, type "wbia api" and click Submit.

After you download and install the run time, you should see the following files:

lib\WBIA.jar
lib\WBIA\3.0.0\WBIA.jar
lib\WBIA\4.0.0\WBIA.jar
lib\WBIA\4.1.1\WBIA.jar
lib\WBIA\4.2.0\WBIA.jar
bin\CWConnEnv.bat (Windows)
bin/CWConnEnv.sh (UNIX)
bin\CWODAEnv.bat (Windows)
bin/CWODAEnv.sh (UNIX)
connectors\messages\CwConnectorAgentMessages.txt

Enabling adapters for earlier versions of Adapter Development Kit and WebSphere InterChange Server

To enable an adapter to work with various versions of ADK or InterChange Server, follow the appropriate procedure below:

InterChange Server versions 4.2.0 and 4.2.1, ADK versions 2.3.0 and 2.3.1
Running an Object Discovery Agent (ODA) against InterChange Server versions 4.2.0 and 4.2.1, ADK versions 2.3.x

InterChange Server patch 4.2.1.1 is required for running the adapter with InterChange Server version 4.2.0 and 4.2.1. No patch is required while running the adapter with InterChange Server version 4.2.2.

Known problems and workarounds

The following problems have been found in this release:

Tracking
number
Description
N/A Because of requirements placed on EJB clients (such as the adapter) when communicating with some application servers, the EJB adapter start script may need to be modified to load certain application server specific libraries and/or run the adapter in the same JVM (although not in the same process space) as the application server. Failure to do so may, and probably will, result in communication problems with the application server hosting the target EJB.

For example, when using the adapter with WebSphere Application Server 5.0 or WebLogic Application Server 8.1, the adapter must be run on the same JVM as is shipped with the application server. In addition, scripts shipped with each of these individual application servers must be run to ensure that the adapter JVM has all necessary libraries for communication with the application server. See the beginning of the adapter start script for example modifications to support each of these application servers.
N/A When using WebLogic 8.x and WebSphere InterChange Server, the adapter should be configured to use an agent-broker transport other than IIOP due to a conflict between IBM Object Request Broker (ORB) and WebLogic-required IBM ORB. No workaround is known at this time.

Documentation

Product documentation is not included as part of the product package, either by CD or by electronic product distribution. The documentation for this product can be found in the following InfoCenters:

To obtain the product documentation, visit the Web site and download the current documentation set for the release that you are using. Follow the instructions provided on the InfoCenter page to complete the installation.

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