Connecting to WebSphere with DevTest using SIBC

Products

• Service Virtualization

Issue/Introduction

These instructions are valid for WAS v6.0 or earlier. For v7.0 or later, see Connecting to WebSphere v7.0+ with LISA using WAS Thin Client

Environment

All supported DevTest releases.

Resolution

Note: These instructions are valid for WAS v6.0 or earlier. For v7.0 or later, see Connecting to WebSphere v7.0+ with LISA using WAS Thin Client

IBM has a JMS client that you can download and use with the Sun JVM. IBM Client for JMS on J2SE with IBM WebSphere Application Server

Instructions:

• Download the file; then run the "installer".
• java -jar sibc_install-o0902.06.jar jms_jndi_sun <output_directory>
• Get the following files from the <output_directory>

lib\sibc.jms.jar
lib\sibc.jndi.jar
lib\sibc.orb.jar

Create a LISA_PRE_CLASSPATH environment variable, to reference the above 3 jar files

E.G. LISA_PRE_CLASSPATH=C:\sibc.jms.jar;C:\sibc.jndi.jar;C:\sibc.orb.jar;

• Edit local.properties and add the following line (this is the MAGIC setting):

com.ibm.CORBA.ORBInit=com.ibm.ws.sib.client.ORB

• On the JMS step, use the following settings:

JNDI factory class: com.ibm.websphere.naming.WsnInitialContextFactory
JNDU URL: iiop://SERVER:PORT