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”. ‘anyType’ means “any valid XSD Type”. We can start to see the correlation between the Single XML String service and the use of these […]
WSDL Anti-Pattern: The ‘Single XML String’ Service
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 expect in a response. All very good things to know, all in a platform neutral way. Now, WSDL tells us what all the elements and […]
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 […]
How not to migrate your server – Internal Database Copying
Please, for me, never just think you can migrate a server from one profile to another by asking your admin to copy the internal table structure from one database to another.. and then clearing all the rows from these tables. Theres a ton of magic that goes on behind the scenes by WebSphere into it’s […]