I’m going to describe this fairly succinctly so you can get up and running in as little time as possible. That being said you will probably need a small dose of luck as I’ve not experienced the same install of an IBM product the same way twice.

I also did the initial install on a VM using VMWare which came in handy as I had to nuke the VM a couple times getting over some hurdles. Additionally I did almost if not all the work from the Linux command line/Bash as root user.

I installed CentOS 6 64bit on my Mac as a VM (with GNOME). I previously had downloaded the various parts and pieces that make up the WebSphere 7 installer and manually combined them together from the ZIP’s and TAR’s provided (yes the parts came in two different compression formats). I downloaded this from the IBM PartnerWorld site so your experience may vary depending on where you get the software.

This blog post concerns the issues I came across attempting to clear two drop downs and a text field in a JSP that itself was a view inside a Spring Webflow (v.2.x).

The layout of the JSP is here: http://gomockingbird.com/mockingbird/index.html?project=559efee20fb22b4a077b4e6652c36f8f54376621

Essentially what my terrible drawing is showing is a list of items and below that list of items three drop downs that when selected, and the save button is clicked, will populate another row in the list. The reason for being inside a Webflow is that this particular problem was part of an enhancement to an existing Webflow.