Archive for April, 2008

Nike: Successful Online Community Drives Product Sales

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in WebSphere Community | No Comments »

My thanks go out to Twitter's SamLawrence for pointing out what Nike is doing in the Social Community Space and the success they are having. You guys sell apparel, what does ... Read more..

IBM Redbooks: WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Integration Developer

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Certification, DeveloperWorks, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Process Server | No Comments »

I was recently asked about where to find resources on WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Integration Developer in order to pass certification tests 093 and 094. I responded to basically ... Read more..

IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances Part IV: Management and Governance

Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in DataPower | No Comments »

From IBM Redbooks, Part 4 in the series IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances: Management and Governance Redpaper, published: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 - Monitor DataPower with IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager ... Read more..

ROFLCon2008: Random Musings About Social Web And Community Building

Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in WebSphere Community, WebSphere News | No Comments »

In case you are out of the loop, ROFLCon 2008 is a day long conference out in Boston where they bring together the owners of the current internet meme phenomenons ... Read more..

Part 3: IBM and the self-sufficient WebSphere Community - Developer Chats

Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in Best Of DZ.com, WebSphere Community | No Comments »

Previously, I talked about what steps I think IBM could take in order to foster an external WebSphere Community with the goal that one day it would become self-sufficient. In ... Read more..

WSDL Anti-Pattern: xsd:Any and xsd:AnyType To Encapsulate Future Changes

Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Posted in Best Of DZ.com, Design Decisions, WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Process Server | No Comments »

The cousin to yesterday's WSDL Anti-Pattern: The 'Single XML String' Service is the use of the XSD specification's 'any'. 'Any' literally means "any well-formed XML contained in this section is valid". ... Read more..

WSDL Anti-Pattern: The ‘Single XML String’ Service

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 Posted in Best Of DZ.com, Design Decisions, WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Service Registry and Repository | 2 Comments »

WSDL is a very useful technology. It allows service providers and consumers to agree on namespaces, operation names, the data to be transmitted in a request and the data to ... Read more..

WebSphere Default Messaging (SIBus) and WebService Error Handling

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Process Server | 12 Comments »

An interesting situation arose the other day for a solution to the following requirements on WPS 6.0.2.3: We have a JMS queue that collects message for a web service Endpoint. We ... Read more..

Getting Started with WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus Parts 1 & 2

Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in DeveloperWorks, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Process Server | 3 Comments »

From IBM Redbooks comes three books in how to get started with WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus. The books are split into Development, Scenario and Deployment. Only ... Read more..

Avoid the WebSphere Integration Developer Debugger

Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in Best Of DZ.com, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Process Server | 5 Comments »

Yesterday, I had a non-descriptive NullPointerException occur within a visual snippet sub-map in WebSphere Integration Developer. The only message written to the log was something that identified which transformation in ... Read more..

Close WebSphere Integration Developer when updating Fixpacks for WebSphere Process Server

Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in Business Integration Tips, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Process Server | No Comments »

I was attempting to install WebSphere Process Server v6.0.2.3 on the server installed with WebSphere Integration Developer. The install kept failing on me with an exception: Caused by: com.ibm.ws.install.ni.framework.fileactions.NIFFileActionIOException: The file java/jre/lib/charsets.jar ... Read more..

Twitter Objectives with the ‘danZrobok’ Account

Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in WebSphere Community | No Comments »

I've now been part of the Twitter community for about two weeks so I think it's about time that I give my impressions of the medium. Tweet Styles So far, I've seen ... Read more..

Tip: Agree To Concrete WSDL Definitions before Development Begins

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in Best Of DZ.com, Business Integration Tips, Design Decisions | No Comments »

If you are a provider or a consumer about to enter development on a web service, you should have an understanding with your counterpart of the WSDL that defines the ... Read more..

WebSphere Adapter for JDBC: Superfluous RecordNotFound Exceptions

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Process Server | 1 Comment »

The WebSphere Adapter for JDBC has some weird behavior if are querying a table. Should your select statement return zero records, the adapter will write a RecordNotFound exception to the ... Read more..

Part 2: IBM and the self-sufficient WebSphere Community - An External Conference Call

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in Best Of DZ.com, WebSphere Community | No Comments »

Previously, I talked about what steps I think IBM could take in order to foster an external WebSphere Community with the goal that one day it would become self-sufficient. In ... Read more..