{"id":3011,"date":"2009-12-17T08:16:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T08:16:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:55:02","slug":"rational-automation-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=3011","title":{"rendered":"Rational Automation Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have spent some time the last week teaching myself the basics of <a href=\"http:\/\/www-01.ibm.com\/software\/rational\/products\/buildforge\/framework\/\">Rational Automation Framework<\/a> (RAFW) together with <a href=\"http:\/\/www-01.ibm.com\/software\/webservers\/appserv\/was\/\">WebSphere Application Server 7<\/a>. The RAFW-version I&#8217;m using is just an old beta, so it misses some features and have some bugs which the current release 7.1.1.2 have taken care of.<br \/>\n[teaserbreak]<br \/>\nWAS 7 have a new feature which enables you to provide a custom name BASE application servers. Not the most important feature, but using a more meaningful name than the default &#8220;server1&#8221; can be useful. But the beta-version of RAFW did not have this feature, so at first I thought &#8220;close, but no sigar&#8221; until Scott Bybee at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atech.com\">Ascendant<\/a> encouraged me to try to create a custom action providing this feature. Spent two days figuring this out until I was able to create a custom action providing this feature. It was really all about understanding the <a href=\"http:\/\/ant.apache.org\/\">ANT<\/a>-scripts RAFW is using, when that was taken care of it was really just a walk in the park to adjust the action into providing the custom name feature.<\/p>\n<p>This was not a big issue, but the main purpose of doing this was understanding how to create a custom action in RAFW, which might be useful for other more critical features or needs which out-of-the-box RAFW does not provide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have spent some time the last week teaching myself the basics of Rational Automation Framework (RAFW) together with WebSphere Application Server 7. The RAFW-version I&#8217;m using is just an old beta, so it misses some features and have some bugs which the current release 7.1.1.2 have taken care of. [teaserbreak] WAS 7 have a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14592,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions\/14592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}