Create web project using maven plugin and set the facets...

  <!-- Allows to create an eclipse project with mvn eclipse:clean eclipse:eclipse -->
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.9</version>
                <configuration>
                    <wtpversion>2.0</wtpversion>
                    <downloadSources>true</downloadSources>
                    <downloadJavadocs>true</downloadJavadocs>

                    <additionalProjectFacets>
                        <jst.jaxrs>1.1</jst.jaxrs>
                        <jst.jstl>1.2</jst.jstl>
                        <jst.web>3.0</jst.web>
                    </additionalProjectFacets>

                    <!-- Set Eclipse project to UTF-8 (if you use eclipse) -->
                    <additionalConfig>
                        <file>
                            <name>.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs</name>
                            <content>
                                <![CDATA[eclipse.preferences.version=1${line.separator}encoding/<project>=${project.build.sourceEncoding}${line.separator}]]>
                            </content>
                        </file>
                    </additionalConfig>

                </configuration>
            </plugin>

Align maven with eclipse to create a web application project

In RAD Window à Preferences à J2EE à Project, update web project default folders to support Maven folder structure as shown below.

Note: move all java source files to src/main/java folder & all content inside WebContent folder to src/main/webapp folder.

Install Maven Integration for Eclipse using Help à Install New Software wizard.

M2E plugin url  -  http://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/releases

Build Failure while running "ConfigEngine.sh/bat wp-modify-ldap-security" task for LDAP configuration on websphere portal server 6.1.5

Error:

00000055 exception     E com.ibm.ws.wim.config.LDAPRepositoryConfigHelper getEntityType CWWIM5014E LDAP entity type PersonAccount is not found.
00000055 exception     E com.ibm.ws.wim.config.LDAPRepositoryConfigHelper getEntityType
                                 com.ibm.websphere.wim.exception.WIMConfigurationException: CWWIM5014E LDAP entity type PersonAccount is not found.
    at com.ibm.ws.wim.config.LDAPRepositoryConfigHelper.getEntityType(LDAPRepositoryConfigHelper.java:1251)
    at com.ibm.ws.wim.config.LDAPRepositoryConfigHelper.deleteIdMgrLDAPEntityType(LDAPRepositoryConfigHelper.java:355)
    at com.ibm.ws.wim.config.commands.LDAPRepositoryConfig.deleteIdMgrLDAPEntityType(LDAPRepositoryConfig.java:145)
    at com.ibm.ws.wim.config.commands.IdMgrRepositoryConfigCommandsProvider.deleteIdMgrLDAPEntityType(IdMgrRepositoryConfigCommandsProvider.java:227)

Solution:

 Goto the path ../wp_profile\config\cells\chnsp\wim\config\wimconfig.xml

  modify the file with adding the below code, it should be added after the tag

</config:ldapServerConfiguration>

            <config:ldapEntityTypes name="PersonAccount" searchFilter="">
        <config:objectClasses>inetorgperson</config:objectClasses>
      </config:ldapEntityTypes>
      <config:ldapEntityTypes name="Group" searchFilter="">
        <config:objectClasses>groupOfNames</config:objectClasses>
      </config:ldapEntityTypes>
      <config:groupConfiguration>
        <config:memberAttributes dummyMember="uid=dummy" name="member" objectClass="groupOfNames"
            scope="direct"/>
      </config:groupConfiguration>

How to checkout projects from SVN using command prompt

Prerequisite:

  Download CollabNet Subversion Command-Line Client from  http://www.collab.net/downloads/subversion/

Checkout:

 mvn scm:checkout -DconnectionUrl=scm:svn:http://example.com/svn/trunk/ -DcheckoutDirectory=/home/jp -Dusername=user@example.com -Dpassword=example

Update:

mvn scm:update

Useful linux commands

1. List the JAVA processes running on linux:

          ps -ef | grep java | awk '{print $2 "  "  $8}'

     Result:
         
           2070  /opt/Portal61/WebSphere/AppServer/java/bin/java
           7440  /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer61/java/bin/java
           8952  /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_11/bin/java