The information in the following sections applies only to those using the WebSphere Application Server.

Running WebSphere on AIX

If using WebSphere on AIX, to avoid errors when importing application data using Oracle ATG Web Commerce import scripts, you must set the following in the <ATG10dir>/home/localconfig/postEnvironment.sh file:

JAVA_ARGS="${JAVA_ARGS} -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true"

You must also set it in the WebSphere environment:

If you do encounter this problem, you will see errors such as the following:

Error: Jan 30, 2008 12:45:01 PM javax.jmdns.JmDNScloseMulticastSocket
WARNING: closeMulticastSocket() Close socketexception
java.net.SocketException: The socket name is not available on this system.

XA Data Sources on WebSphere

To use XA data sources with WebSphere, add the following line to your <ATG10dir>/home/servers/servername/localconfig/GLOBAL.properties file:

localTransactionModeInitialization=false

Creating ACC Scenarios on WebSphere

In order to create scenarios in the ACC, you must add the <WSdir>/AppServer/j2ee.jar file to your class path. To do this, copy j2ee.jar into the /lib directory of your standalone ACC installation, then modify the bin/startClient.bat file to include j2ee.jar in the class path.

Using Oracle ATG Web Commerce Multisite on WebSphere

If you are using the Oracle ATG Web Commerce multisite feature on WebSphere, in order to use virtual context roots, do the following:

In order for session recovery to function across a multisite installation, make sure to set the following properties as indicated on each application server: