Import “IBM Mobile Application Platform Pattern Type” and the sample pattern into SCAWS

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This article explains how to import the Worklight pattern type and pattern on the IBM SmartCloud Application Workload Service. It is part of a series of articles concerning the “IBM Worklight usage on IBM SmartCloud Application Services”. Go on Worklight Trial on SmartCloud Application Service page to get register! Continue reading →

How to enable IBM SmartCloud Application Services in the Worklight Trial

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I will explain in this article how to provision the different services provided by IBM SmartCloud Application Services, which is GA and also in trial (visit the SCAS website for more information on the SCAS trial). Go on Worklight Trial on SmartCloud Application Service page to get register! Continue reading →

Load the WorklightStarter sample application on Worklight Studio

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This article explains how to import the WorklightStarter project into your Worklight Studio installation. This is part of a series of article explaining the usage of the “IBM Mobile Application Platform Pattern” on the IBM SmartCloud Application Service. Go on Worklight Trial on SmartCloud Application Service page to get register! Continue reading →

Create a mixed language application pattern

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Using IBM Mixed Language Application Modernization Pattern
Summary:  Learn how to create a mixed language application pattern using the workload console in IBM PureApplication system. To help you get started building a pattern, templates for deploying COBOL or C applications are provided. As part of this demo a pattern is create that has a web component to invoke a COBOL application.
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Use “SCAWS pattern deployer” on Eclipse to deploy pattern and applications (v1.1.1)

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I just released a version of the “SCAWS pattern deployer” plugin which allows you to deploy SCAWS pattern from Eclipse (Video available)

– Bug Fix: A Bug prevented to deploy EAR, WAR, ZIP… FILE was ok.

– Bug Fix: New files composing EAR, WAR, ZIP wasn’t detected correctly.

– Improve error handling.

– Remove navigation in the context menu.

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Fly to DevOps with SCAS in Eco Class

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Playing DevOps with SmartCloud Application Services (SCAS) is about making the life easier for the whole team who is or will be in charge of an application and this by providing helper tools from the project initiation till the operation of the application. Continue reading →

Pattern-type (Part 17): Tips: How to attach a URL to your pattern

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Here a very quick tip, when you deploy a WebApp pattern you can see next to the WAS role the URL (Endpoint) to access your deployed app:
SCAWS Web Application Only Status

This can be easily achieved and just by adding a line in your topology template.

1) Locate the role in the roles array for which you would like to add the link.
2) Insert a line like:

"external-uri": [{"ENDPOINT":"http://{SERVER}:8080/${attributes.appURL}"}],

Now, the question is where the {SERVER} comes from?
When we look at the storehouse, we can see that the {SERVER} is still present in the generated topology and thus I have the feeling that this variable is interpreted by the UI as being the IP address of the server where the WAS role has been deployed.
In fact you can insert any parameters defined in the tweak.json between braces and they will be replaced by their value.

Pattern-type (Part 16): Create a plugin that modify automatically all generated Topology for SCAS

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Somebody asked me the following question:

“I have to create a framework for future development of pattern-type, each server generated by plugins in this framework must have a specific software when a given role is used. I would like this behavior as much as possible transparent for the developer who use this framework. I think I have to use the TopologyProcessor”. Continue reading →