Partitioning Facility Editor for WebSphere Extended Deployment

An Eclipse plug-in that enables users to create partitions.xml files that can be used to define a WASXD application's partitions and partition expressions.

Date Posted: February 18, 2005

Overview Requirements Download FAQs Forum Reviews 1. What is difference between a .wpf file and the partitions.xml file? 2. How do I install the editor and the help plug-ins into Eclipse? 3. How do I uninstall the plug-ins? 4. Is there an alternative to creating partitions.xml files? 1. What is difference between a .wpf file and the partitions.xml file? A file with a .wpf extension represents the Eclipse version of the created partition information. It can be processed only by Eclipse using this editor. This internal representation can be used to generate the partitions.xml file that is shipped with the J2EE application. The partitions.xml file contains the request expressions and valid partition names that the XD application defines. The On-Demand Router uses this information to route partitioned HTTP requests. Back to top 2. How do I install the editor and the help plug-ins into Eclipse? The editor and help plug-ins are each contained in zip files within this package. These files should be unzipped in the Eclipse directory so that the plug-ins are placed in the Eclipse plugins directory. Back to top 3. How do I uninstall the plug-ins? Simply delete the following four plug-in directories from within the Eclipse plugins directory: com.ibm.regex_1.0.0 com.ibm.wpf.partitionEditor.help_1.0.0 com.ibm.wpf.partitionEditor_1.0.0 http.wpf.ui_1.0.0 Back to top 4. Is there an alternative to creating partitions.xml files? An application may provide this information to WebSphere XD programmatically. In this case, the configuration information would be hard-coded in the application. Back to top