IBM – Websphere Interview Questions

IBM – WEBSPHERE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

How to choose websphere over other application servers? Selecting What applicati
on server is part of architechtural process when infrastructure is defined. It d
epends on several facots: External systems your application will be interacting
Type of application you have Target availability of system Corporate standards B
udget deployment descriptors? How many types of Deployment
are
descriptors are available? What are they? Deployment descriptor is an XML file t
hat describes how to deploy a module or application by specifying configuration
and container options. For example, an EJB deployment descriptor passes informat
ion to an EJB container about how to manage and control an enterprise bean. Ther
e are two types of deployment descriptor in websphere: Web application deploymen
t descriptor portlet deployemnt descriptor
Portlets are packaged as WAR files with a web application deployment descriptor
(web.xml). This defines each portlet as a servlet within the web application, in
cluding unique identifiers for each portlet, the portlet class, and initializati
on parameters. How many ways can you deploy applications in websphere? Directly
copy files to deployedapplication folder in websphere- hot deployment. Use websp
here specific ant tasks and building automated scripts for deploying application
. Through administration console What is the difference between web server and a
pplication server? Application Server: takes care of Security, Transaction, Mult
ithreading, Resource pooling, load balancing, clustering, performence, highly av
ailability, scalability, etc. Exposes business logic to client applications thro
ugh various protocols, possibly including HTTP. Supports deployment of .war and
.ear files Application server = webserver + EJB container.
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Webserver: handles HTTP protocol. Receives HTTP request, it responds with an HTT
P response. How to import jaxp package in IBM WSAD? Open WSAD Go to project Clic
k properties Select javaBuildPath Add any jar file like jaxp select add external
jars.
How to implement JDBC-ODBC bridge driver (Type 1) in Websphere? If you use JDBC
type (I) driver you dont need to add any driver in websphere. you simply created
DSN and use it locally, same we use java class, if you use Type(2) and Type(4)
so first go to admin console then go to connection, then add driver there fill o
ther info like conn. size, uname pass, max conn. and connect it to you applicati
ons. Is there any difference between weblogic and websphere? Webpshere tends to
focus more on integration, connectivity and web services. it has rich implementa
tion of J2EE, better performance, more extensive integration and transaction man
agement. In terms of trnsaction weblogic is having default transaction attribute
as ’supports’, but websphere does not have any default transaction attribute. Expla
in about web sphere? The word web sphere popularly refers to IBM middleware tech
nology products. Web sphere is known for its turn key operation in e business ap
plications. It has run time components and tools which can help in creating appl
ications which run on WAS. WAS refers to web sphere application server. Explain
about web sphere commerce? IBM web sphere commerce has a single platform which o
ffers complete ecommerce solutions to developers. It can be very productive if y
ou are planning to do business with consumers, business and indirectly through c
hannel partners. This can be used to perform business with consumers, business a
nd channel partners altogether. Detail about the architecture of web sphere? Web
Sphere is built on three main components they are Database J2EE application ser
ver
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A web server DB2 Oracle Cloudscape IBM server Microsoft IIS Sun web server
The databases which it supports are
Application server is IBMWAS and the supported web servers are
State some of the features present in web sphere? Some of the features which are
present in web sphere are: Order management Web sphere commerce accelerator Ana
lytical and business intelligence Open standards such as Java, EJB, etc Web sphe
re commerce payments and customer care, etc
Explain about IBM Web Sphere edge server? Web sphere edge server is used to impr
ove the performance of web based systems. It can be used as forward or proxy ser
ver. Basically four components are present in the web sphere they are Network di
spatcher, Caching proxy, Content distribution and application service at the edg
e. Explain about extended deployment? Web sphere application server extended dep
loyment increases the functionality of the server in two main areas they are man
ageability and performance. Dynamic virtualization between servers is possible w
ith the help of XD. A stand alone distributed cache was added to it under the pe
rformance header, it is known as Object Grid. Explain about the security feature
s present in WAS? Security model for web sphere is primarily based on JAVA EE se
curity model. It also depends upon the operating system. User authentication and
authorization mechanisms are also provided in WAS. Light weight third party aut
hentication mechanism is the main security feature present in WAS. Explain about
asymmetric clustering? Asymmetric clustering applications are primarily used in
electronic trading systems employed in banks. Some of the features are, partiti
ons can be declared
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during run time and are usually run on a single cluster at a time. Work specific
to a particular can be routed to that cluster. Explain the various Administrato
r benefits using Web sphere? Web sphere almost reduces the work of server admini
strator as he can manage load on servers efficiently without any hassles. It als
o gives him flexibility to divide the load and applications among different serv
er farms. He can also predict about the incoming load on servers. Email alerts,
restart options, memory leak detection, etc. Explain about caching proxy of IBM
Web sphere Edge sphere? A caching proxy can be configured in forward direction o
r as a proxy. Content requested by the user is cached by edge before sending or
adhering to the query. Page fragments arising from JSP or servlets are cached by
Edge and the caching process is slow. Performance and scalability of J2EE appli
cations can be increased by edge. Explain about the network deployment feature p
resent in WAS? Managing singletons will be a thing of the past and it also provi
des hot recovery of singletons which makes you forget about your GC collected si
ngletons. Transaction logs can stored on a shared file system. For clustering ru
n time operations deployment manager`s role was eliminated. J2EE failover suppor
t and cell configuration support is also present. Explain about IBM web sphere i
ntegration developer? Web sphere integration developer provides an IDE to build
applications based on service oriented architecture. Web sphere process server a
nd web sphere ESB were built with WID. WID was built with RAD Eclipse based tech
nology. Explain about compute Grid? Compute grid is also known as Web sphere bat
ch. Web sphere extended deployment offers a Java batch processing system called
as Compute Grid. This forms an additional feature to Web sphere network environm
ent. Various features are provided which help a developer to create, manage and
execute batch jobs. Job scheduler, xJCL, batch container and batch programming c
ontroller. Explain about web sphere MQ Real time transport? This feature is very
useful in instant messaging across different clients through intranet and inter
net. This supports high volume and high performance across different clients. It
uses the concept of light weight transport which is again based on IP rather th
an the queue process.
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Explain about Web sphere MQ JMS Provider? Web sphere MQ and Web Sphere Business
integration manager Broker are very useful in providing Java messaging services
to wide range of clients (publisher – subscribe, point to point). Java classes are
chiefly responsible for translating the API calls to API`s defined by web spher
e. It is very useful to have knowledge of Web sphere MQ for proper configuration
. Explain the attribute CHANNEL in web sphere MQ? CHANNEL specifies the name of
the server connection channel. Generally this is Web Sphere MQ network abstracti
on. The default standard used by CHANNEL is SVRCONN which is the server connecti
on channel. This server is generally used to communicate to the queue manager by
the client. Is the naming of connection factory independent of the name specifi
ed by JMS client? Yes, the naming of connection factory is independent of the na
me specified by JMS client. This is made possible by WAS (Web sphere application
server) with its resource references. It isolates the application from object n
ames. This feature is important because it gives us the flexibility to change th
e administered object without changing the JMS client code.
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