I’ve just been asked to review a new book entitled “Application Development for IBM WebSphere Process Server 7 and Enterprise Service Bus 7“. I can certainly vouch for the credentials of one of the two IBM authors having worked with Salil Ahuja. As part of the AIM Early Programs team he’s in a perfect position to have both a breadth of knowledge across the products and a good understanding of what customers need and want to know. The sample chapter online (which happens to cover mediation module development) looks promising so I look forward to receiving my review copy.
Archive for the ‘WebSphere ESB’ Category
New WESB/WPS book
Friday, July 16th, 2010WebSphere ESB V7 available
Friday, December 11th, 2009WebSphere ESB (and Process Server) Version 7.0 is generally available as of today which, amongst other things, means that I’m free to blog at will about the product content. As is traditional, I’ll start with an overview of what’s new in this release of the product (and the associated WebSphere Integration Developer tooling). Over the coming weeks I hope to cover each of these areas in more detail.
DynaCache and WebSphere ESB/Process Server
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009Building WebSphere ESB and Process Server on WebSphere Application Server means that they benefit from the scalability, reliability, transactionality and security of the underlying platform. Another advantage is that you, as a developer, have access to all of the underlying capabilities of the application server. In a recent article, Alan Hopkins (Dr Alan to you apparently!) demonstrated the use of the object cache to provide a shared variable between two modules. On a similar vein, another UK ISSW consultant Gabriel Telerman has just published a detailed tutorial describing how to use DynaCache from an SCA Java component to improve performance in a WebSphere ESB or Process Server environment. Now Gaby, can I have that pint now for the plug?
Version 7 announcement
Monday, October 19th, 2009Two weeks ago I was a little pre-occupied with my own announcement and consequently failed to highlight the announcement for the next version of WebSphere ESB, Process Server and Integration Developer.
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Connection timeout on web service import
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009Here’s a short write-up of the answer to a question I was posed by a colleague yesterday: how do you set the timeout for a web service import? The answer, as any good consultant would say, is that it depends…
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Scripting modification of HTTP bindings
Friday, June 26th, 2009If you find yourself needed to make use of the modifySCAImportHttpBinding command make sure read the documentation in the InfoCenter carefully. Even if you are modifying a property at the import level it isn’t sufficient simply to specify the import parameter. The property that you are modifying must also be enclosed in a tag with the name of the import binding. So the example given is:
$AdminTask modifySCAImportHttpBinding -moduleName MyMod -import Import1 -connectionRetries <Import1>3</Import1>
Thankfully the InfoCenter has been recently updated as a result of APAR JR31724 as previously you just had to guess at the syntax! Perhaps I should now try and get them to fix the description of the command which I see states “The modifySCAImportHttpBinding command changes the JNDI name of one or more of the resources associated with an HTTP import binding.”! One suspects someone may have been a little generous on the old cut and paste…
WebSphere ESB Forum
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009There has been a WebSphere ESB newsgroup for a long while but it doesn’t see a lot of traffic compared to its sibling Integration Developer and Process Server groups. At least part of that has been due to the fact that they have been mirrored on the developerWorks forums which tend to be the preferred interface for many developers this days (although not myself!) whilst the WebSphere ESB one has not. My colleague Dave Screen has now got this rectified so post your WebSphere ESB questions here!
WebSphere Integration Developer for ESB
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009A top tip just in from the WebSphere Integration Developer team… If you only use WebSphere Integration Developer to develop for WebSphere ESB (and not Process Server) then go to Window > Preferences and select General > Capabilities. Then click the Advanced button and expand Integration Developer. If you uncheck Process Development then the Process Server specific options (e.g. SCA module creation) will be filterered out of the menu structures. It’s not perfect (the new business integration module wizard for example doesn’t take account of the enabled capabilities) but it goes a fair way to removing some of the clutter that is not relevant to you as a WebSphere ESB developer. Thankfully there are plans to make the option easier to find in future releases!
