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Status Is a defect
Workspace Operational Decision Manager
Created by Guest
Created on May 20, 2026

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Request for Jakarta EE 10 compatible build of IBM ODM Decision Center's dbdump tool

The Decision Center dbdump web application is currently not compatible with Jakarta EE 9 or Jakarta EE 10 runtimes, as it is built against Java EE / Jakarta EE 8 APIs (javax.* namespaces).

In environments where Jakarta EE 10 is mandated as a platform standard (for security, lifecycle, or compliance reasons), dbdump fails to start with runtime errors such as:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet

 

This occurs because Jakarta EE 9+ removed all javax.* APIs and replaced them with jakarta.*, resulting in a binary incompatibility that cannot be addressed through configuration or dependency changes.

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Antony Viaud
    Jun 1, 2026

    According to the dev team, we have indeed two versions of decisioncenter-dbdump.war depending on target ODM release. It's described here. Looks like the documentation needs to get updated accordingly. I asked the team to create a doc defect

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  • Guest
    May 26, 2026

    To be more precise:

    If I run javap command against the main class of the DBDump tool I get:

     

    Compiled from "DBDumpServlet.java"
public class ilog.rules.teamserver.dbdump.web.DBDumpServlet extends javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet {
 static final java.util.logging.Logger logger;
 public ilog.rules.teamserver.dbdump.web.DBDumpServlet();
 protected void doGet(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse) throws javax.servlet.ServletException, java.io.IOException;
 ilog.rules.teamserver.dbdump.core.DBDump getOrCreateDBDumpFromRequest(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest);
 java.lang.Integer getIntFromRequestParameter(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, java.lang.String);
 static {};
}


    So this is clear: 
    extends javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet

    This tool CANNOT work with Jakarta EE 10 and this fully explains the java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet

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  • Guest
    May 21, 2026

    Yes, ODM 9.5 does support Jakarta EE
    So if you add in the server.xml features:

            <feature>jakartaee-10.0</feature>

    it works fine.

    But the dbdump tool that you get from the page that you quoted does not.
    If you open it you will see that it references some old 8.11 jar:
    teamserver-dbdump-core-8.11.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
    And if you try to use it with 
            <feature>jakartaee-10.0</feature>
    it fails with:


     [5/21/26, 2:06:16:506 PDT] 0000002e IncidentImpl  I   FFDC1015I: An FFDC Incident has been created: "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.osgi.DynamicVirtualHost startWebApp" at ffdc_26.05.21_02.06.15.0.log
     

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  • Admin
    Antony Viaud
    May 20, 2026

    Hello,

    I don't understand the request. ODM 9.5 includes the dbdump tool. And that ODM version is based on Jakarta EE.

    See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/odm/9.5.0?topic=tool-exporting-decision-center-data

    Please clarify the request.

    Reply

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