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"Gartner states that the cost to fix a security vulnerability found in production is 6.5 times higher than one found in QA. A single security defect that may have cost only $150 if found in QA could easily cost an organization $975 if found in production."   

Should the QA team perform the security testing , how much that would cost extra? to find out read more on  here

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It's been a good news for folks like me who have been waiting for the JDK 5 support on IBM WAS app servers. As of today I have not tried this version WAS 6.1.[what is new in 6.1] You can find more details here BTW both WAS 6.0.2 and 6.1 support solaris x86 on AMD Opteron

it is not uncommon to run in to a classnotfound exception, the site jarhoo provides the service to locate the jar file of the class. Though it is paid service there is an option to get the service through the google co-op subscribe to http://www.javasubscribedlinks.com/

When you deploy the webapp to a WAS container and you see the error some thing like in the title you might want to check the following

• j2ee dtd, whether 2.3/2.4
• make sure your webcontainer support that version
• make sure the web.xml properly reference the DTD

DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC        "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
        "file:///opt/SUNWam/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">

ensure the file /opt/SUNWam/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd do exist if still fails replace the file:///opt/SUNWam/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd with "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd