Web tools - release notes


1.0 Limitations
   1.1 BiDi issue for WebArt Designer, Animated GIF Designer, and PageDesigner classic
2.0 Known problems
   2.1 JSP Compilation in workbench and switching server targets
   2.2 Selecting web projects features with auto-build off
   2.3 Adding Cache Variables to a Servlet Caching Configuration

1.0 Limitations

1.1 BiDi issue for WebArt Designer, Animated GIF Designer, and PageDesigner classic

WebArt Designer sometimes fails to create the Logo image of the bidirectional language on Windows 2000. If you specify character spacing when you create a Logo image of right-to-left characters, the width of the Logo is incorrect. You must specify zero as character spacing to have a correct Logo image of bidirectional characters on Windows 2000.

Animated GIF Designer sometimes fails to create the animated banner of the bidirectional language on Windows 2000. If you specify character spacing when you create a Logo image of right-to-left characters, the width of the Logo is incorrect. You must specify zero as character spacing to have a correct Logo image of bidirectional characters on Windows 2000.

2.0 Known problems

2.1 JSP Compilation in workbench and switching server targets

If the JSP Compilation option is set to compile JSPs "when project is built in workspace" and the server targeting support is enabled, there can be a potential problem when the target server is modified.

If a project has server targeting set to a V5 server, and it is then changed to a V4 server via the context menu accessed on a project (Target Server-->Modify or Target Server-->Synchronize) the compiled JSPs will remain in the project, though they should be deleted. To fix this, access the project properties and go to the property page for Web and click OK.

To avoid this problem, always modify the server target via the project properties page (under the Web property page).

2.2 Selecting web projects features with auto-build off

When creating a web project with auto-build turned off, if you select the feature "WDO Relation database runtime", the WDO-related jar files will be imported to the web project but they will not be added to the project's classpath. This will cause subsequence code generations in page designer to fail. So make sure that you build the project after it has been created.

2.3 Adding Cache Variables to a Servlet Caching Configuration

The wizard which enables the adding of a Cache Variable (CV) to a Servlet Caching Configuration (SCC) does not work. If the target SCC does not contain a Cache Entry ID Generation (CEIG) one will be created, but no CVs which are defined will be created.

To add a CV, first go through the wizard as you normally would. Save the changes you made in the Web Deployment Descriptor editor. Open the ibm-web-ext.xmi file. Find the CEIG in the appropriate SCC and add the CV manually. When finished, the source for your SCC will look something like this:

<servletcacheconfigs xmi:id="ServletCachingConfiguration_1069188599650" propertiesgroupname="cg1" timeout="0" priority="1" invalidateonly="false"> <idgeneration xmi:id="CacheEntryIDGeneration_1069188599650" useuri="false"> <cachevariables xmi:id="CacheVariable_1069188599650" type="REQUEST_ATTRIBUTE" id="ID" method="Method" required="true" dataid="DataID" invalidate="InvalidID" /> </idgeneration> </servletcacheconfigs>

Valid values for the type attribute are: "REQUEST_PARAMETER", "REQUEST_ATTRIBUTE", "SESSION_PARAMETER", and "COOKIE". The method parameter is only valid when the type attribute has a value of "REQUEST_ATTRIBUTE" or "SESSION_PARAMETER".

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