Administering Applications in Production
Posted by nicholsr on November 5th, 2009. Other posts by nicholsr
Recently we have had a number of queries about poor performance of sMash applications which have turned out to be caused by starting the applications from App Builder.
App Builder is intended as a development tool and as such it always starts applications in debug mode. This has a fairly dramatic effect on the performance [...]
Does my PHP app run on sMash?
Posted by nicholsr on July 31st, 2009. Other posts by nicholsr
As the PHP implementation in Project Zero gets more complete it’s possible to run many popular PHP applications.
We’ve had quite a lot of folks ask us whether their PHP application would run on sMash. In the past we have pointed people to the list of supported functions in the documentation or simply invited them [...]
sMash PHP performance gains in LeMans
Posted by hayton on June 4th, 2009. Other posts by hayton
Big performance strides for PHP on Java…
We’ve made lots of improvements in the LeMans code which give a large boost to the performance of the PHP implementation in WebSphere sMash. When we started out incubating Project Zero we built a fairly simple PHP interpreter. We needed to make sure we had implemented all of the [...]
Display database table contents from the command line
Posted by brandon on March 3rd, 2009. Other posts by brandon
Some time ago I needed to easily display the contents of my database tables in order to verify if data had been updated, inserted, and deleted. It was good practice in leveraging the CLI task framework provided by WebSphere sMash.
Create a Groovy script called “show.groovy” in the “app/tasks” folder of your application. Create the folder, [...]

