Ravi Kakarla

Yes, JDJ - Java Developer's Journal is a good one. Google it to know the subscription details.

It all depends on the employment terms - if they are taking you as an employee based out of USA, there won't be any Indian salary component. But, if they take you as "based-out-of-India-deputed-at-USA" then, yes - you salary will have an Indian component as well. (So employee's "base location" turns out to be a critical factor)

Anyway, it differs from company to company and sometimes, from case to case. Better get a clarification from the HR.

Look into the versionInfo.sh script thats placed in the <WebSphre_root>/bin directory and that should throw some light on to your issue (content of the script here below -)

###################################################################
binDir=`dirname $0`
. $binDir/setupCmdLine.sh

"$JAVA_HOME/bin/java" \
-Dwas.install.root="$WAS_HOME" \
-Dws.ext.dirs="$WAS_EXT_DIRS" \
-classpath "$WAS_CLASSPATH" com.ibm.ws.bootstrap.WSLauncher \
com.ibm.websphere.product.VersionInfo "$@"
#####################################################################

ThoughtWorks is a pretty good company. I know the famous UML Distilled author - Martin fowler is (one of) the founder(s). Interviews are supposed to be very very technical and tough to get through!! All the best!!

All -

Is it possible to have 2 different Apache 2.0 WebServer instances(with different HTTPD.conf files)residing on the same server and can be listening on the same port?

Any pointers to this would be appreciated.

Thanks!
Ravi

Hello Folks, Just want to check whether its only GoF patterns that we need to prepare for the SCEA or should we prepare J2EE Design patterns & EJB patterns too? (I mean, from the exam point of view)

Thanks!
Ravi K Kakarla

Hello all,

Ours is a mammoth J2EE N-tier enterprise application built on WebSphere 3.5.6 platform (Solaris OS) with multiple clones running on different physical machines (horizontally & Vertically scaled).
Its a very transaction intensive application with highly demanding avalability & performance requirements.

At times, we are seeing a clone getting Auto-recycled (dies & comes back in a minute on its own). Under what circumstances do we see this recycling behaviour of a clone?

From our priliminary analysis, we could not see any reasons for this to happen. Traffic to the application was below normal level, no Db contention, no OSE buildup...etc.,

Please let us know if any one else ha experienced the same.

Thanks!
Ravi K Kakarla

I am planning to buy the WhizLabs simulator for SCEA. When tried to place my order - It gave me 2 options 1) Download 2) Get a CD (Which costs $12 more).

If I choose the download, that gives me an option to Save the file, rite? Or Is it going to just install on my machine right then?

Am asking this question because, I would like to place the order from Office and then install the software on my home PC.

Please let me know, if anyone of you have an answer to this.

Thanks!
Ravi

Hello,
If you guys know a good book on Webpshere - Please suggest me (any version of WAS). I already have seen the IBM RED BOOK.
I am planning for Websphere certification.
Thanks!
Kakarla

Hello,
Ours is a J2EE application running in Websphere 3.5.6 (In Unix). Of late, we have been facing a strange issue with our application - Whenever the application is started Very Very higher CPU Utlilization rates are observed (As high as 80%). The same code was working fine earlier. Any one knows what environmental changes could cause such issues!!
Upon running the OptimizeIT, we found that following call is taking the most(as much as 80%) of the CPU time -
com.ibm.servlet.engine.oselistener.outofproc.NativeServerQueueImp.getSeviceMessageId()
Please let me know if any of youhave faced this issue earlier!
Thanks
Ravi K Kakarla