It is very easy to setup an eclipse environment (Indigo or Juno) to develop Web Application for IBM SmartCloud Application Service.
For the time being IBM SmartCloud Application Service (Workload Service) provides WebSphere Application Server version 7.x and of course to be able to develop an application for this platform you will need the stub. The stub is provided by installing the WebSphare Application Server on your laptop which make non-sense! Why using the cloud if you have to install an application server on your laptop in order to make some development! Continue reading
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Deleted your IBM SmartCloud Application Collaborative Lifecycle Management Service by mistake!
You deleted you IBM SmartCloud Application Collaborative Lifecycle Management Service by mistake!
First Don’t worry because you will be able to restore your service with the last backup.Remember, when you provision the SCACLMS, you had the provide a schedule for your daily backup and this backup is done in a separate persistent disk. Continue reading
Backup/Restore with IBM SmartCloud Application Collaborative Management Service
Backup
The IBM SmartCloud Application Collaborative Management Service backups your data once a day on a persistent disk located in the same data-center. This persistent disk is automatically generated when you enable the service. At service enablement time, you can choose also the time when the backup must be done.
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Reusable assets in IBM PureApplication System and IBM SmartCloud Application Services
This article is also valid for IBM SmartCloud Application Services!
Summary: Reusable components provide a method by which domain experts can capture their knowledge of an enterprise system into reusable components that can be easily consumed by users creating new application patterns. This article describes the use of reusable components and application templates within IBM® PureApplication™ System. Learn about processes that can be used to accelerate the development life cycle and provide consistent implementations across deployments. Continue Reading ->
How to populate SmartCloud Application Workload Services with the available SCE images
When you enable the SCAWS service, by default, only few images or none are available for virtual system. IBM provides a number of images for R1.0 but you have to import them from the SmartCloud Enterprise catalogue. Continue reading
How to setup your SCAS/IWD/PureApp plugin development environment?
The IWD technology is used in different IBM products such as IBM SmartCloud Application Services (SCAS) and IBM PureApplication (part of the PureSystems product line).
This technology uses patterns to deploy application and the underlying infrastructure. Pattern-types defines the rules to design patterns. SCAS out of the box provides pattern-types such as the “Web Application” or the “Java” pattern-types. Developers wrote the plugins which define the pattern-types.
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Announcing the first release of IBM SmartCloud Application Services
The general availability of IBM’s platform as a service (PaaS), IBM SmartCloud Application Services has just been announced! IBM SmartCloud Application Services (SCAS) provides end-to-end services for applications ranging from development to production. continue reading ->
IBM Application Pattern Type for Java: RAP application on Jetty
I read this article on developerWorks: Deploying into the cloud with the IBM Application Pattern for Java which I found very interesting. It explains how to deploy a Java application in SCAS. The author demonstrates how to setup a Tomcat environment and how to install its application on it.
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Your own pattern-type in few steps!
I wrote an article on: http://expertintegratedsystemsblog.com
Please read this to setup your development environment: How to setup your SCAS/IWD/PureApp plugin development environment?
IBM PureApplication can provide you out of the box a number of pattern-types; you can also upload new pattern-types at IBM PureSystems Center but what about if you want to create your own pattern-type that describe your own application environment!
Has Cyber Monday a taste of Black Monday for some companies?
After black Friday where American citizens can buy at low price goods in most of the shops comes the Cyber Monday. On that day eShops make incredible discount on their products via the web which attract a lot of cyber customers. This has for consequence a short and huge increase of the load of all servers owned by these companies. This sudden load increase is also called peak load. Continue reading