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WebSphere Liberty

Assign Admin traffic to a separate admin vhost

WebSphere Liberty Admin applications use the same default vhost used by applications.
over 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Loading data source for @DataSourceDefinition from application in Liberty

Most Java EE servers support loading the data source that's used with @DataSourceDefiniton or the data-source tag from the application archive. WAS Liberty however does not support this. I'd like to propose to add support for this.
almost 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Mime type WOFF isn't supported on Liberty

WebSphere Liberty doesn't support the mime type for WOFF fonts out of the box. This can be set manually but automatic handling would provide a better customer experience.
almost 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Document and/or simplify how to configure 2 liberty appservers for remote EJB communication on the same host

IBM documentation exists on how to develop applications for remote EJB support in Liberty whit Full JE7 support. However, it is not clear from the documentation/tools how to configure 2 liberty appservers on the same host to enable one JVM to call...
almost 11 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future 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 (%...
over 12 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 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 13 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future 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 ...
over 13 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Is a defect

[On Hold] Need ability to visualize MDB activity and performance in Liberty - MODIFY DISPLAY,WORK

Have historically made use of  MDB's in addition to HTTP driven services in tWAS , but after starting the migration to Liberty we have no means to actively i real time visualize performance or  even occurrence of activity regarding MDB's...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Logs rollover in IBM WebSphere Liberty should provide an option use compress the rolled over logs

The rollover of log files without retention through archiving causes difficulty in troubleshooting past failed events. The messages.log file is automatically getting rollover and creating file with timestamp format like messages_25.07.05_01.53.47....
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Prevent sensitive information logging by redirecting the messages of certain liberty codes to a specific file in liberty logs directory

As of today, the liberty messages with sensitive information such as email ID, user name etc., is being logged in messages.log which causes it to be logged in INFO level. Liberty has the hide message attribute to hide those certain liberty message...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration