Content Platform Engine, Version 5.2.1 Application server: WebSphere Application Server

Configuring WebSphere for Content Platform Engine

You must prepare IBM® WebSphere® Application Server before you install Content Platform Engine. You must create a WebSphere profile for the Content Platform Engine application and set the environment variables for the database connection.

About this task

Content Platform Engine is an enterprise application running on a Java™ application server and should be made highly available in a high availability environment. In this configuration, an administrative server manages a number of application server instances. Applications and configuration changes are implemented by using an administrative server/interface and sent to each cluster node. In this type of configuration the application server software provides the components to build and deploy the highly available enterprise application.

Important: You must use Configuration Manager, rather than a manual method, to create the data sources that Content Platform Engine uses to connect to a database. A data source that you create manually (by interacting directly with an application server interface) can include, by default, many unnecessary and potentially harmful custom properties. Also, for some combinations of database type and application server type, Configuration Manager adds some special custom properties to the data source it creates, which you might fail to include if you create the data source manually. Without these added custom properties, runtime errors can occur when Content Platform Engine tries to connect to a database.