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Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Transaction Processing
Product - CICS Transaction Server
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - WebSphere
Product family - Transaction Processing
Product - CICS Transaction Server
The most complete solution we can offer at this time is:
1. To use the WebSphere Application Server Web server plugin to allow workload management, failover, and rule-based request routing of applications within one or more Liberty server instances. Create two versions of a Web-application...with different web-contexts, then write plug-in rules to provide seamless routing to the newer version of the application (note session persistence feature may be required for stateful Apps). Additional benefits of the Web server allow static content to be served without round-tripping to the application server.
2. Specific to EBAs. You can split out the non-API, non Web-enabled business logic into a separate EBA (containing the OSGi bundle with implementation logic) and invoke the function via OSGi services. The OSGi application integration feature of Liberty allows sharing of OSGi services between EBA (that would otherwise be isolated from each other).
This requirement has been evaluated. There are nothing in the WLP plan to address this, so correspondingly this requirement is being rejected. You have an opportunity to resubmit in twelve months time if you wish it to be considered then.
Same applies to Bundles used for XML Transform.
It would be really nice to have an equivalent of CEMT PERFORM PIPELINE() SCAN, to avoid having to disable/discard/install to update the Transform.
i.e. CEMT PERFORM BUNDLE() SCAN