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EJB Client jar location

When creating EJB client JAR file in RAD 8.5, depending on the steps taken, the location of the jar is either root of the EAR or the EAR lib directory. This becomes confudsing to the developers. This is also affecting our common build script we ar...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration

Report variable name from Symbol Table in Purify Report

Comment to Customizing Purify intrumentation and reporting by Madhu (986729997 asked if a purify report for MLK be:MLK: 340 bytes leaked at 0x932423, the variable: loginInstead of:MLK: 340 bytes leaked at 0x932423It is assumed that Purify has acce...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 1 Future consideration

Search wizard should have 'Consider derived resources' activated by default.

The default behaviour of the search wizard should be to find ALL occurrences of a file including 'derived' versions. The 'consider derived resources' checkbox could be relegated to a 'twisty' in the wizard which allows various filter criteria to b...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 3 Future consideration

Document how to create other server configuration options via Ant task createWSServer

Document how to create other server configuration options via Ant task createWSServer
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration

Check whether facet file .settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.xml exists as Performance Tuning task

Rational Application Developer 8.5 introduces Workspace Performance Tuning via Help > Performance > Workspace Performance Tuning. This feature should check whether the file .settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.xml which stores...
about 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration

Include an option in the EJB Project wizard to configure EJB client jars to the EAR lib directory

This is created in response to RATLC02596350 There were differences between the way EJB client jars were configured when created in the EJB project wizard. The EJB client jar was added to the root of the EAR upon creation but added to the lib dire...
about 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 1 Future consideration

RAD and DevOps: ANt Tasks to export partial EAR/WAR/EBA etc.

With RAD or the Build Utility we can export a full EAR/WAR/EBA etc.If we use the RAD Ant tasks as the way to create the artifacts to use in a DevOps scenario with IBM UrbanCode Deploy, it would be useful to be able to build a jar file that contain...
almost 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration

Merge Page Designer and Rich Page Editor into Page Editor

I use Rational Application Developer v9 with the Page Designer and the Rich Page Editor and I especially use the "Code an Action"/Quick Edit button to get a quick snippet of my code. I find it tiring to have to switch between the Page Editor and t...
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration

Access WAS Application OSGi Console from RAD

RAD should help developers to test their applications on WebSphere Application Server. For that, it is possible to create profiles without using the PMT directly from the command line (e.g.).So for OSGi application developers, it should be possibl...
over 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration

Reduce CPU overhead of WAS profiling

Try to reduce high server CPU overhead during profiling sessions by providing additional configuration options for profiling session to reduce amount of profiling tracing data such as only profile public java methods. Often this is enough to find ...
over 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration