Creating Distribution Grid Libraries

Prerequisites

These files are required for creating the distribution grid libraries:

  • IBM WebSphere Software: TIBCO does not provide the full installation of the WebSphere software to build the distribution. You must create the distribution by using your own copy of the software downloaded from the WebSphere website https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/ws/was/ or https://developer.ibm.com/wasdev/downloads/#asset/WAS_traditional_for_Developers

The process for creating a SDK Grid Library is similar to the following procedure, except the naming of the Grid Library would be ibm-j2sdk-platform-1_x_y_z-gridlib.zip. You must also install JCE unlimited-strength policy files for your JRE; see the IBM website for details.

To create a distribution Grid Library:

Procedure

  1. Create a temporary directory named websphere-x.y.z-distribution-gridlib.
  2. Download the full installation of the software, and extract the compressed file into the temporary directory.
  3. The extracted download of the WebSphere software contains a single directory with the name websphere-x.y.z. Rename this directory WASServer.
  4. Create a grid-library.xml file using one of the examples from WebSphere Distribution Grid-library.xml Files.
  5. Put the grid-library.xml into the top level of the temporary directory.
    The temporary directory now contains the grid-library.xml and a WASServer directory.
  6. Create an archive of the temporary directory. It can be an archive, or a gzipped TAR archive. Note that the archive should contain the grid-library.xml and WASServer directory at the top level, and not the temporary directory itself.
  7. Ensure the archive is named websphere-x.y.z-platform-distribution-gridlib.zip or .tar.gz. This is the completed distribution grid library for installation on your broker.