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WebSphere Liberty

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JAX-WS opens too many SSL connections

In our application we have a client in Liberty that makes JAX-WS soap calls to a backend server, also in Liberty. We've found that when we use ssl to make the JAX-WS calls, we can easily cause the server to open over 1024 sockets simultaneously, w...
almost 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Trusted DB2 for z/OS connection for Liberty Profile

It would be very helpful if WAS Liberty Profile supported DB2 trusted connections and trusted contexts. Right now I am forced to use SyncToOSThread functionality but that causes problems with authorization to write to log files. I am working on a ...
over 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 7 Future consideration

Liberty Server Maven suport: There is no goal to clean a deployment from the dropins directory

There is no goal to clean a deployment from the dropins directory If one of more applications is installed with liberty:install-apps, there is no goal to uninstall these
over 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration

Liberty Profile on Beaglebone Black

Please consider support of the IBM JDK and Liberty Profile on Beaglebone Black. Headless support will suffice, but utility libraries to access the hardware would be nice (already using purejavacomm a.o.)
almost 11 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration

SRVE0232E: Internal Server Error - liberty version 8.5.5.0

liberty_version = "8.5.5.0" - Error when there is a special character in URL (for domain) like '%' (e.g. - http://localhost:9080/mrm/s1%/login ). SRVE0232E: Internal Server Error. Exception Message: [URLDecoder: Illegal hex characters in escape (%...
almost 11 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Support for custom URL Resource Providers in WebSphere Liberty Profile

Within our company we use WebSphere Liberty Profile during development since it greatly improves the performance. Unfortunately there is some disconnect between full-blown WebSphere and WebSphere Liberty Profile in the area of configuration. The f...
almost 11 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

Allow encoded password on securityUtility createSSLCertificate

The securityUtility createSSLCertificate command requires a password that can only be in plain text. We'd like the ability to specify a password that is already encoded by the securityUtility encode command -- similar to the way in which encoded p...
over 11 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Complete OSGI modularization of all Liberty Profile Implementation(s)

The complete functionality of the Liberty Profile implementation should be modularized by means of OSGI. Thus, it should be possible that any custom extension to the Liberty Profile server can be implemented and provided as OSGI feature. In partic...
over 11 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration

web applications within an EAR should be treated as single entities with regards to changes

If I make changes to a web application that is contained within an EAR the Liberty profile will consider that as a change on the EAR level instead of the web application level and restart the entire EAR instead of the affected ServletContext.This ...
almost 12 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Proper CDI Interceptor/Decorator support for Web Service container

To enable proper Interceptor/Decorator support for Web Service bean, and also for the singleton manage beans injected to the Web Service bean. Currently, 1. For Web Service bean, Interceptor does not work. 2. For managed beans injected to the Web ...
almost 12 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Is a defect