Netbeans 6.1 plugin for WebSphere V6.0 and V6.1
Together with my colleagues we worked on the plugin for Netbeans IDE for WebSphere. It was initially designed to work for Netbeans 5.x IDE and WebSphere Application Server 6.0. We did some work to make it available with Netbeans 6.0 and it was at update center for some time but it should be part of the main binary. Recently I have been continuing this plugin work with my team member and I am happy to share that it is available as Netbeans 6.1 Milestone 1 release. The current phase of port is done and if you are interested you can download the plugin from here. The details can be found at Milestone 1 report page and WebSphere plugin screen shots are there for your reference.
The next step would be to add more functionality as you would like. Just provide us feedback at the plugin web-site.


I am interested in trying this out (specifically for WS-6.1) - I would like to use Netbeans at my current job - instead of Rational Application Developer. I don't see this in the Available Plugins in either Netbeans 6.0 or 6.1Beta. Currently my configuration is "Active" on "3rd Party Plugins", "Netbeans" and "Netbeans Beta". Could you post some additional help as to how to configure WS-6.* as an available server if it does not appear as one of the Available Servers when trying to "Add Server Instance".
thanks, PD
Posted by Peter Doyle on April 03, 2008 at 07:48 AM PDT #
sorry i posted with incorrect email address previously
Posted by Peter Doyle on April 03, 2008 at 07:49 AM PDT #
Peter,
This is not available as main bundle of NB. If you go to Update Center then you will find this plugin.
Posted by Dileep on April 10, 2008 at 11:27 AM PDT #
Hello,
I'm having some issues while developing Entity CMP on NetBeans 6.0.1 which is intended to be mapped to a MySQL instance, via WebSphere AS 6.1.0.0
The question is: How can I "complete" the configuration of my EJB Project (by using NetBeans 6.0.1 WAS plugin) in order to properly "map" my Entity CMP generated classes (and respectively deployment descriptor ejb-jar.xml) into my WebSphere AS 6.1.0.0 instance??
I saw those ibm-*.xmi files in the project's configuration folder, and it is working ok for Session Beans and Entity BMP... I mean, the plugin works great for most situations, but I'm missing the point when it comes to deploying Entity CMP 2.x in WAS 6.1.0.0!!
WAS 6.1.0.0 complain that the "Backend ID" is not mapping to my MySQL instance, instead WAS is trying to map to an DB2 "default" (internal) instance (DB2 Backend ID).
So, how can I specify inside my "ejb-jar" file that MySQL instance is to be used as persistence for my Entity CMP beans, I mean, thru this plugin.
Many thanks for any help regarding above issue.
marcio
Posted by Marcio on April 16, 2008 at 10:16 AM PDT #
Marcio,
Would you please report this issue at:
http://www.netbeans.org/community/issues.html
Let me know.
Posted by Dileep on April 18, 2008 at 04:27 PM PDT #
Can WebSphere plugin support remote WebSphere Application Server?
Posted by Albert on April 23, 2008 at 05:41 PM PDT #
Hi...Is there any chance the plugin would be upgraded to support JavaEE 5 for WebSphere 6.1 with EJB3 feature pack?
Thanks.
Posted by julian on June 12, 2008 at 07:11 AM PDT #
Hi all,
Is there a way to use any other profiles, not just the default one?
Thanks
Jürg
Posted by Juerg on September 16, 2008 at 05:25 AM PDT #
I'm trying to move applications from JSC (on WebSphere 5.1 - Mostyka deploying approach) to NetBeans with WebSphere 6.0 (this also because I had many problems deploying JSC applications to WebSphere 6.0). So I'm very interested in this officialized plug in. Thanks, Raffaele.
Posted by Raffaele Favilli on September 24, 2008 at 05:54 AM PDT #
Hi,
I am using the Websphere 6.1 plugin and just tested it to deploy a simple webapp (the one which gets generated whwn you create a new Web App).
The server get started but the application does not deploy. (See logs below)
init:
deps-module-jar:
deps-ear-jar:
deps-jar:
library-inclusion-in-archive:
library-inclusion-in-manifest:
compile:
compile-jsps:
debug:
Deployment error:
The module has not been deployed.
See the server log for details.
at org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.deployment.devmodules.api.Deployment.deploy(Deployment.java:166)
at org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.ant.Deploy.execute(Deploy.java:104)
at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor86.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:105)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:357)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:385)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1329)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1298)
at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1181)
at org.apache.tools.ant.module.bridge.impl.BridgeImpl.run(BridgeImpl.java:277)
at org.apache.tools.ant.module.run.TargetExecutor.run(TargetExecutor.java:460)
at org.netbeans.core.execution.RunClassThread.run(RunClassThread.java:151)
Caused by: The module has not been deployed.
at org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.deployment.devmodules.api.Deployment.deploy(Deployment.java:160)
... 16 more
BUILD FAILED (total time: 0 seconds)
Also, there seem to be no features for stopping the server.
Anything i am missing or doing incorrectly, please let me know.
Posted by Mandeep Singh on October 24, 2008 at 05:09 AM PDT #
Hi, is there any development on CMP issue posted by Marcio?
Posted by Naso on February 27, 2009 at 01:41 AM PST #
Can you also pay attention to maven integration. Netbeans 6.5 made really good progress with maven support specially with war projects and tomcat. Websphere deployment are failing. This would really put Netbeans in advantage compared to eclipse support with websphere 6.1 where there exist none right now.
Posted by Martin Jozef on March 02, 2009 at 08:09 AM PST #
Hi,
please think to give support to secure profiles.
Bye
Posted by giorgio bellinger on April 01, 2009 at 03:19 AM PDT #
Hello,
I have an issue bwtween Netbeans 6.1 and Websphere 6.1
I am not able to use the wizard for the creation of the MDB.
Infact the button of project destination is disable and the wizard cannot retrieve the server destinations that I have created.
Is there any one that can help ?
Thanks
Maria
Posted by maria on June 03, 2009 at 08:52 AM PDT #
Any provision for Websphere 5.1?
Posted by Ravindra Gullapalli on July 13, 2009 at 09:05 PM PDT #