Shout out to James Taylor who has identified how to follow the tweets that are going on during the conference. I also suggest that people follow Michael Cote on Twitter, I added him to my mobile device updates yesterday afternoon and got about 40 updates so expect to feel like you are there on the […]
Updated – Impact 2008: Bloggers in Attendance
Just another list of links of bloggers who are at Impact 2008: Juris Kaža Bob Balfe Michael Coté James Governor Dana Gardner Billy Newport
Smart Enough Systems Blogging Impact 2008
Just quickie that Smart Enough Systems are also blogging Impact 2008 in depth. Very In depth. Like three articles already posted depth. Good job!
Impact 2008: Dana Gardner and Michael Coté Blogging the Conference
I’m not at Impact, so I’m a little diminished in my capacity to know who’s there, who’s blogging, what’s being talked about or exactly how many boat races Steve Mills can win in a row. Thanks to Michael Coté who is also blogging the conference and has his recap of the first few hours of […]
Impact 2008: Happy Birthday WebSphere
The marketing says that it’s WebSphere’s 10th birthday on Tuesday. To celebrate, IBM is asking for revised lyrics to the well-known Birthday song. Never being one to pass up on a free chance at bizarre creativity, I’ve shilled-out and submitted: WebSphere *IS* big blue What Can it not Do? We praise you, Dear WebSphere Ten […]
SOA Jam: Unify The Numerous Enterprise Service Bus Products
I’m on a roll right now with the Impact 2008 SOA Jam (a few hours before it opens officially of course) Anyway, the link is here and the content of the jam follows: What would implementing this idea accomplish? Some kind of consolidation needs to occur at either a runtime level, or tooling. Unify […]
SOA Jam: Foster an External Practitioners Community
I’ve posted my idea for an External Practitioners Community to the Impact 2008 SOA Jam. It can be viewed here (if you sign up) For those of you not inclined to participate, I’ve included the text below: What would implementing this idea accomplish? Currently, if I am a non-IBM practitioner on the WebSphere stack, I […]
IBM SOA Jam for Impact 2008
For Impact 2008: The SOA Jam is a 72-hour online discussion hosted at IMPACT 2008. Join your colleagues at IMPACT and worldwide in sharing your insights between 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. PDT on April 7-10, 2008. Don’t miss this opportunity to provide IBM with your input and help influence SOA success. Sign in to […]
Venting some WebSphere Integration Developer Steam
In the blog Albees Online, Albin Joseph expresses his frustration that he’s stuck using the buggiest IDE in the World (WebSphere Integration Developer). I’m going to include my thoughts below: Most of the times the server wouldn’t change the status to started even if the server is actually started Agreed. There’s something wrong with the […]
The Future of Business Process Management? – Will BPM For Food
From the IBM Innov8 game. Premonition of the future? (Both sides??) Damn, she stole my gimmick should I ever be back on the job market. I’m not sure if a panhandler should be dressed better than the people she’s begging from though. The collared shirt probably has to go.
WebSphere Adapter for FTP – Missing Information in User Guide
Sometimes you have to chuckle at the titles of PMRs. I came across this one today: “Information not included in the user guide for IBM WebSphere Adapter for FTP V6.0.2” Where they admit they forgot very minor details like the fact you have to create all the directories manually or the ftp location where inbound […]
The VETO SOA Pattern
I’ve never been much of a patterns guy. I kind of always have the ability to apply common sense to a system and turn up something that is straight forward and makes sense. Periodically I get asked about what set of patterns I used to decide how a system should behave. To answer this question […]
Response to ‘Does Commercial Enterprise Software Suck’
Just wanted to point out to my readers that Johannes Brodwall has provided a ‘response to my response‘ on the topic of his post about the state of WebSphere. This blog doesn’t get too many comments, so I felt the need to point it out as he provides his opinions on WebSphere vs an OSS […]
SCA, BPEL, Websphere Adapter for JDBC and Transactionality
Consider the following module: We have a Web Service Export connecting to a BPEL process which invokes the WebSphere Adapter for JDBC. The BPEL process has two invocations to insert two rows into the database. I have a business requirement that either both rows get inserted or no rows. Now in the success case, when […]
SCA Component for Ruby with WebSphere Process Server
Go figure, I was googling for “WebSphere Process Server” and came across an AlphaWorks project: SCA Component for Ruby with IBM WebSphere Process Server. Unlike the article that ‘integrated’ the two via Web Services, this project will give you the ability to run Ruby from inside a component.
How to misrepresent your article
The developerWorks article titled “Create a Web service with Ruby on Rails for integration with WebSphere Process Server makes it sound like it’s some cool new functionality that would allow a Ruby Component inside of process server. Alas, the “Integration” between Ruby and Process Server is done via a yawn-inducing boring old web service. I’d […]
CWSIP0311E: A user is not authorized to delete a durable subscription
When attempting to start an ear after application install on WebSphere v6.1, the following exception occurred: [28/03/08 9:50:46:673 EST] 00000028 MBeanHelper E Could not invoke an operation on object: WebSphere:name=ApplicationManager,process=server1, platform=dynamicproxy, node=txuxu-was007Node01,version=6.1.0.15, type=ApplicationManager,mbeanIdentifier=ApplicationManager, cell=was007Node01Cell,spec=1.0 because of an mbean exception: com.ibm.ws.exception.RuntimeWarning: javax.resource.ResourceException: CWSIV0900E: The exception com.ibm.wsspi.sib.core.exception.SINotAuthorizedException: CWSIP0311E: A user is not authorized to delete a durable […]
Article about how to write Articles for WebSphere DeveloperWorks
From Developerworks, a little piece of self-promotion called Writing articles for developerWorks WebSphere Everything you’d ever want to know about getting an article published on developerWorks. One caveat, the article approval process is very long. My submission for the Test Client article took around 3 months to get approval. By then, I wasn’t all that […]
Part 1: IBM and the self-sufficient WebSphere Community – IBMs Business Case
Previously, I lamented about the lack of a non-IBM community dedicated to WebSphere. In this series, I’m going to put myself in IBM shoes and describe what I would do to encourage the formation of an external community. Before I get into that, I’d like to reflect on the benefits it would bring to IBM […]
IBM Impact 2008 – Two Weeks Away
As Impact 2008 rolls around, the blogs are starting to come alive with the sounds of people booking their flights to Vegas. I’ve included a list of some bloggers who will be in attendance: Las Vegas, SOA and me Comming to IMPACT 2008 IMPACT 2008! Techy conference! Jimmy Wales @ Impact 2008 IBM Education Pack […]
Migration Project Candidate Determination Made Easy
On a migration project, you sometimes come across a system that’s been around for a long time, does a pretty small task and hasn’t been touched in years. The question that arrises is “Should it be migrated to the new platform?” Now. You could solve this problem by phoning up stakeholders and try to find […]
Introducting the SCA HTTP Binding
From DeveloperWorks, Configuring SCA HTTP binding to enable real-life scenarios You can use HTTP bindings supported by IBM® WebSphere® Integration Developer Version 6.1 in many common real-life integration scenarios involving Service Component Architecture (SCA) applications. For example, by properly configuring the HTTP bindings you can expose SCA applications as a simple HTTP URL using HTTP […]
Automatic Build Solution for WebSphere Integration Developer
From Developerworks, Develop an automated build engine for Service Component Architecture applications using WebSphere Integration Developer This article describes how to construct an automated build engine solution for applications developed using IBM WebSphere Integration Developer and maintained using Rational ClearCase as the Software Configuration Management system (SCM). It explains the overall approach used to construct […]
Oracle SOA Suite 11g – Hello Competition!
As I’m sure you can tell, I’m very WebSphere focused. I have a hard enough time keeping up with the zillion WebSphere branded products that get released throughout the year. On my random surfing of the internet (tyvm Technorati) , I turned up Oracle’s entry into the world of SOA: Oracle SOA Suite 11g. The […]
Make ‘iWay’ for more WebSphere Adapters!
The WebSphere Journal reports that 35 ‘iWay’ adapters will be a part of WebSphere Integration Developer and WebSphere Process Server. The adapters can be used with: * Amdocs * Ariba * Baan * Broadvision * Clarify * Documentum * i2 * Lawson * Manugistics * MFG/PRO * Microsoft * Retek * TIBCO … The custom […]
Does Commerical Enterprise Software Suck?
In Johannes Brodwall’s Blog, he asks “Why does so much enterprise commercial software suck?”. In it, he mentions that his project migrated off of WebSphere and onto Jetty and regrets that his project didn’t migrate soon. The money quote: But WebSphere is just the most blatant example of software that gives you nothing, gets in […]
IBM Support Flashes
If you deal with IBM software, one of the things that you need to keep up with are the APARs and PMRs that IBM releases over the week. If you are on the latest level of software it’s good to know what you may or may not run into. IBM provides a service from its […]
WebSphere Adapter for JDBC Export – ‘InvalidVerbException’
We had a WebSphere Adapter for JDBC Export that was throwing the following error when a row was written into the event table: [3/19/08 14:44:26:705 EDT] 00000099 MA_RMSEVentPo 2 com.ibm.j2ca.jdbc.inbound.JDBCEventStoreWithXid getRecordForEvent Entering method. [3/19/08 14:44:26:705 EDT] 00000099 MA_RMSEVentPo 1 com.ibm.j2ca.extension.eventmanagement.internal.EventManager getObjectForEvent(Event) Failed to retrieve event (477) from event store (com.ibm.j2ca.jdbc.inbound.JDBCEventStoreWithXid@4dd3f398) [3/19/08 14:44:26:705 EDT] 00000099 MA_RMSEVentPo […]
Disclaimer
You’ll notice there’s a hot new disclaimer added to the website, in the top left corner. For some reason, I just feel the need to re-iterate that this blog is Dan’s thoughts about that topics that Dan deals with on a day to day basis. They could be right, wrong, biased or a combination of […]
Planned IBM Certification Tests
Just thought I’d outline my current thinking towards which tests I’m going to prepare to write at the WebSphere Services Technical Conference 2008: 284 – IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances Firmware V3.6.0 093 – IBM WebSphere Process Server V6.0, System Administration 252/253 – IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V6.0/V6.1 Core Administration 664 – SOA […]