I'm blogging this in the hope that I can save one other person from looking around, but if IBM iRad give you the error Extended Operation failure: org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.archive.operations.EARComponentExportOpera when exporting an EAR file a restart of the IDE fixed my issue!
Thanks to all the people that follow mytweets and blog posts. 2010 hasn't been the greatest of years for me personally but here is to 2011 being a lot better! (with more posts)
While doing some Websphere work one thing I do notice is that the Eclipse based IDE is a resource hog with quite a bit of background services and publishing going on (though ultimately to help the user in the long run).
Luckily there is a document from IBM on performance tuning the beast.
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/download/attachments/113606723/radtipsv754.pdf
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Another Friday has come around. Its been a long but good week for me, i've been on a 5 day Mastering IBM Websphere course ... I'm no master yet and my head is ready to blow up with terms, patterns and accronyms flying out buts its good. I think these courses are good, especially for any CF developer as it gives you a great understanding in how a large strongly typed language web project has to come together (and makes you appreciate how easy CF makes it too). Also the Websphere Application Developer (Eclipse based tool) is pretty cool (though it should be for £3000 per seat) but I've had no luck trying to install on a Mac, has anyone out there done it?? I've got the WAS Community Edition server going which I'll post about later. Anyway, the majority of you are here for the joke, enjoy!
One day when the teacher walked to the black board, she noticed someone had written the word 'penis' in tiny small letters. She turned around, scanned the class looking for the guilty face. Finding none, she quickly erased it, and began her class.
The next day she went into the room and she saw, in larger letters, the word 'penis' again on the black board. Again, she looked around in vain for the culprit, but found none, so she proceeded with the day's lesson.