I’m still solidly in the spring domain with my solution. I’ve run into a number of obfuscated exceptions as I’ve gone along way my from Spring newbie to Spring intermediate newbie. They’re all nicely saved in my WebSphere Application Server log, so once I get some free time, I’ll go through them all with the solutions I encountered.

So far in Spring, I have:

• Integrated with WebSphere Application Server
• Connected to an oracle database using WebSphere managed resources
• Submitted a message to an SIBus queue
• Called a Oracle Stored Procedure

Currently, I’m wrestling with Oracle’s DBMS_CRYPTO package (calling Encrypt(..) with a BLOB or RAW is fine, CLOB give me errors) and using CLOBs in Spring.

I’ve also run into a weird condition where I can’t republish to my WebSphere Application Server v6.1 anymore. I need to uninstall-reinstall.

I feel like I’m back on Process Server.