Release Notes for Version 3.3.0 of the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for Web Services

These release notes cover release information for version 3.3.0 of the IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Business Integration Adapter for Web Services. These release notes contain the following sections:
New in this release WebSphere Business Integration Adapters API and run time
Product fix history Known problems and workarounds
Hardware and software requirements Documentation
Installation, migration, upgrade, configuration

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.


New in this release

New features and improvements made in this release include the following:

Refer to the Adapter for Web Services User Guide for detailed information about the adapter and the new features.


Product fix history

Between release 3.2.0 and 3.3.0, the following CRs, based on customer-reported cases, were fixed.

Tracking
number
Description
 26824 The SOAP data handler and WSDL ODA do not support SOAP attributes on Simple Type Elements.
 30117 While the HTTP adapter is in the process of terminating gracefully, if a poll cycle is initiated, or if the adapter is manually terminated, it will exit immediately without releasing resources.
 30302 The application-specific information property ws_prop_name is not used for propagating user-defined protocol properties.
 30580 The Web Services Description Language (WSDL) ODA disconnects when it encounters a circular schema reference.
 30816 The HTTP handler should read no more than content-length sized payload from the response.


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, migration, upgrade, and configuration

Whether you are installing the software from the CD or downloading it from Passport Advantage and installing it from a local directory, refer to the System Installation Guide for UNIX or for Windows for more information. This guide includes general migration, upgrade, and configuration information.

For hardware and software requirements and configuration information specific to this adapter, refer to the Adapter for Web Services 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 1.7.0 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 1.7.0 or later, you must download the latest API. This section provides instructions for verifying the API version, downloading the latest version, and enabling the adapter to run on various versions of InterChange Server and Adapter Development Kit (ADK).

Verifying 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: 1.7.0

The line Implementation-version indicates the installed version of the API. If the version is not 1.7.0 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 InterChange Server

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

InterChange Server versions 4.1.x (except 4.1.0), ADK versions 2.1.x
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 4.1.x (except 4.1.0), ADK versions 2.1.x
Running an Object Discovery Agent (ODA) against InterChange Server versions 4.2.0 and 4.2.1, ADK versions 2.3.x

Known problems and workarounds

The following problems have been found in this release:

Tracking
number
Description
23993

When the WSDL ODA encounters multiple inline schemas that import each other without providing schema locations, it logs warnings or errors; however, the business objects are generated properly.

To work around this, separate each schema into an individual file and update the imports/includes to contain the appropriate file locations. Import these individual schema files into the WSDL document using an import statement with the appropriate file locations.

24662

When WebSphere MQ 5.3 CSD03 is used as the JMS provider, the adapter's JMS listener cannot read message bodies after moving the message from the input queue to the in-progress queue. This is a problem with the WebSphere MQ application.

28828 The connector fails when instantiating the Protocol Config meta-object that contains required attributes. 

To solve this problem, you can either clear the isRequired check box on the business object attribute, or you can add a property called UseDefaults to the connector, set the value to true, and make sure that the business object attribute has a default value.

31633 In a UNIX environment, a connector_manager_adapter script is generated by the Installer. The script references adapterEnv.sh, which was introduced with version 2.4.0 of Adapter Framework. If you are running an older version of Adapter Framework, adapterEnv is not available. To run this version of the adapter with an older version of the Framework, change the reference from adapterEnv.sh to CWSharedEnv.sh in the connector_manager_adapter script.


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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