Archive for July, 2008

The WebSphere Contrarian: Are you sure you want to reorg that messaging engine database?

Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Posted in DeveloperWorks, WebSphere Application Server | No Comments »

From DeveloperWorks, The WebSphere Contrarian: Are you sure you want to reorg that messaging engine database? The standard practice for database administration is to periodically check on the database and table ... Read more..

WebSphere 6.1 and Jakarta Commons Logging (JCL) using Log4J in an EJB

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Business Integration Tips, WebSphere Application Server | 1 Comment »

In my solution, I am using Log4J inside an EJB. I created a log4j.properties file and put it on the classpath of my EJB. I created a file appender ... Read more..

IBM Buys ILOG, a Business Rules Engine

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere News, WebSphere Process Server | No Comments »

Geez, I don't know how I missed this one.  ILOG is a business rules engine that can already integrate with WebSphere Process Server so this acquisition makes sense. It's better ... Read more..

IBM Software Support Lifecycle - General Availability, End Of Marketing, End of Support Dates

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Business Services Fabric, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Service Registry and Repository | 1 Comment »

Planning that new WebSphere Process Server v6.0 GA production deployment? I suggest you check out the End Of Service Dates published by IBM for your versions to ensure that you ... Read more..

ANT & Building an EJB with the JAR task: ClassNotFoundException

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Business Integration Tips | No Comments »

Just a quick note. I was trying to build my EJB using ANT and the JAR task and when it ran, I was getting ClassNotFoundExceptions for my utility jars that ... Read more..

What’s new in WebSphere Integration Developer V6.1.2

Monday, July 28th, 2008 Posted in DeveloperWorks, WebSphere Integration Developer | No Comments »

From DeveloperWorks, What’s new in WebSphere Integration Developer V6.1.2 IBM WebSphere Integration Developer is a powerful tool used by integration developers in the assemble phase of the SOA lifecycle. You can ... Read more..

What’s new in WebSphere Process Server V6.1.2

Monday, July 28th, 2008 Posted in DeveloperWorks, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, WebSphere Process Server | No Comments »

From DeveloperWorks, What’s new in WebSphere Process Server V6.1.2 IBM WebSphere Process Server is a powerful runtime engine that can be used as the heart of a Service Oriented Architecture. It ... Read more..

javax.xml.bind.JAXBException: Unable to locate jaxb.properties for package {0}

Friday, July 25th, 2008 Posted in Oracle BPEL, WebSphere Application Server | No Comments »

In my solution, I use JAXB to convert from XML over the wire into Java objects. I added the JAXB jars to my ear (as previously explained). When I deployed ... Read more..

Do not use forward slashes in SIBus Destination names with JMS

Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Posted in WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Process Server | No Comments »

I have an SIBus destination called: 'MY/QUEUE'. I create a JMS QueueConnectionFactory and JMS Queue definition to this destination. jms/LoggingPoisonQueueCF and jms/LoggingPoisonQueue. When I attempt to put a message on the ... Read more..

Where’s that class being loaded from? - Which4J

Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Posted in WebSphere Application Server | No Comments »

I'd just like the tout the WHICH4J Project which has helped me immensely in my classpath confict issues with Oracle over LOG4J and JAXB. Which4J is a small utility jar that ... Read more..

Log4J “NoSuchMethodError” for org/apache/log4j/Logger.trace(Ljava/lang/Object;)V

Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Posted in WebSphere Application Server | No Comments »

My application uses log4J and when I deployed to our development server, I was getting the following exception: CNTR0020E: EJB threw an unexpected (non-declared) exception during invocation of method "onMessage" on ... Read more..

Adding pre-built JAR files to your EAR in Rational Application Developer

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 Posted in WebSphere Application Server | No Comments »

I have the following jars that I want to include on the classpath of my EAR: jaxb-api.jar jaxb-impl.jar jsr172_1.0_api.jar log4j-1.2.15.jar spring.jar For my Spring/JAXB/Log4J solution. I tried to look into the deployment descriptors to place ... Read more..

WebSphere Application Server: Non-Deterministic Error when configuring Default Messaging Activation Specs

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 Posted in WebSphere Application Server | 2 Comments »

I'm in the process of moving an application from my test server to a development server. I started creating activation specifications for my MDBs. Everything was fine. Then I tried ... Read more..

The top 15 WebSphere MQ best practices

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 Posted in DeveloperWorks, WebSphere Message Broker | No Comments »

From DeveloperWorks, The top 15 WebSphere MQ best practices Many articles and books offer recommendations for designing message queuing and integrating it into applications. This article simplifies this maze by listing ... Read more..

Oracle DBMS_CRYPTO Encryption

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 Posted in Oracle BPEL, WebSphere Process Server | No Comments »

I spent a few days battling the oracle DBMS_CRYPTO package. This package allows the encryption of data types, including clobs and blobs (in oracle 10g). The battles included: My user ... Read more..