Websphere Test Environment in VisualAge

[Kathy OConnell]

I downloaded the VisualAge 4 entry enterprise edition. However, it did not have the Websphere Test Environment as I expected. Do you know how I can get hold of this and add it as a feature to VisualAge??

[Jack Xia]

Originally posted by Kathy OConnell:
I downloaded the VisualAge 4 entry enterprise edition. However, it did not have the Websphere Test Environment as I expected. Do you know how I can get hold of this and add it as a feature to VisualAge??

use the first item on the menu, maybe "File", the click the "add features", you can see the "websphere Test Enviornment", click to add it.

[Kathy OConnell]

I tried that (using file, quickstart, features, add) but Websphere test environment did not appear on the list. I tried adding IBM Java Websphere libraries 3.5.3, but that does not seem to be the same thing eg I couldn't find SERunner.

[Kyle Brown]

The feature may not have been installed when you ran the install program. Try removing your VAJ install and reinstalling it, this time selecting "all features".
Kyle

[Kathy OConnell]

Thanks for that. I have now got IBM Websphere test environment as a feature. However, I have now hit a new problem. When I try to add it as a feature, I get the error message
"Add failed: The package org.w3c.dom cannot be specified by both JSWDK and IBM XML Parser for Java."
Has anyone else come across this and know a way around this
Thanks in advance
Kathy

[Kyle Brown]

The JSWDK is NOT a standard package in VisualAge. I think this is something you must have added. If so, remove it and then add the feature. The WTE has all of the classes in the JSWDK already.
Kyle

[Kathy OConnell]

Hi
Thanks for your help. I have now managed to load the WebSphere Test Enviroment as a feature into VisualAge - I ended up reinstalling VisualAge, so cleaned it up.
I have now hit another problem. In the book I am following it says to "go to the com.ibm.servlet package and select the SERunner class". But, in the com.ibm.servlet there is no SERunner class. There is only a SERunner class in com.ibm.servlet.debug package. Does this sound right?
I have tried running this SERunner class but I do not get the expected results - I was expecting a display in the console window showing a window with WebSpere Test Environment with a Stop and Exit button.showing.
In the output frame, I was expecting some Hostname bindings and some stuff on HelloWorldServlet. Instead I just get "Usage: com.ibm.servlet.debug.SERunner <initialize props file>" in the output frame.
When I installed VisualAge, I installed it on the local computer, not a server - is that right.
I installed VisualAge4 entry edition (downloaded from the internet).
Any help on how to progress from here would be greatly appreciated.

[Kyle Brown]

You are obviously reading from an old book. That method of using the Servlet Runner was superceded in VisualAge 3.5. Instead, you use the WTE console to start the servlet runner.
Why not get a copy of my book and follow the instructions there (which will STILL work in VAJ 4.0)
Kyle

[Kathy OConnell]

Hi
I have now progressed to being able to start WTE. However, I have hit problems trying to run a servlet. The web page is blank when the servlet address is called and at the bottom it says "done".
When I look at the console, after the ***Servlet Engine is started*** it says:
urilist: /ErrorReporter/*=ErrorReporter
/servlet/*=invoker
*.jsp=jsp
/=file
I have tried looking in the visualage online help, but can find nothing helpful
Kathy

This looks wrong, but I don't know what the problem is. Can you help??