PM65637: PROBLEMS WITH FEATURE LIST GENERATION FOR WHEN USING WEBSPHERE A PPLICATION SERVER DEVELOPMENT TOOLS FOR ECLIPSE.

8.5.0.1: WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Fix Pack 1
8.5.0.2: WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Fix Pack 2

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• WARNING: Unable to find OSGI-INF/l10n/metatype in
  /Applications/jazz/client/eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/wor
  kspace/build.image/wlp/lib/com.ibm.ws.monitor_1.0.jar
  
  is displayed in the console when generating the feature list.
  Additionally, if running on Mac OSX, when the underlying
  default encoding is not UTF-8 you will see an error similar to:
  
  javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: Underlying stream
  encoding 'MacRoman' and input paramter for
  writeStartDocument() method 'UTF-8' do not match
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:  All users of IBM WebSphere Application      *
  *                  Server Liberty Profile that attempt to      *
  *                  generate the feature list.                  *
  *                  All users of Liberty profile that try to    *
  *                  use the feature list generation using an    *
  *                  environment containing an encoding          *
  *                  other than UTF-8.                           *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: APAR PM65637 addresses the following    *
  *                      two issues:                             *
  *                      A warning message saying that a         *
  *                      metatype path could not be resolved is  *
  *                      always emitted during the feature list  *
  *                      generation.                             *
  *                      The error is thrown when the            *
  *                      underlying                              *
  *                      stream encoding is different than       *
  *                      UTF-8, which for Java running on        *
  *                      Mac OSX defaults to MacRoman.           *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  During feature list generation there is a warning that
  complains
  about the OSGI-INF/l10n/metatype path not being found in the
  monitor bundle.  This happens because the OSGI-
  INF/l10n/metatype
  file did not exist in that bundle.
  The feature list is trying to force UTF-8 output, but when the
  underlying stream has a different encoding (for example,
  MacRoman on Mac OSX's Java) we get the mismatch error.
  

Problem conclusion

• The file OSGI-INF/l10n/metatype was added to the monitor bundle.
  
  Support has been modified to properly check and use the
  underlying stream encoding.
  
  The fix for this APAR is currently targeted for inclusion in
  fix pack 8.5.0.1. Please refer to the Recommended Updates page
  for delivery information:
  http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=180&uid=swg27004980
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  LIBERTY PROFILE

• Fixed component ID

  5724J0814

Applicable component levels

• R850 PSY

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