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Sharing libraries at runtime

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Thanks to my colleague Dave Screen for highlighting a useful technote relating to sharing library modules in WebSphere ESB and Process Server. The WebSphere Integration Developer concept of a library is typically only used for development time sharing of artifacts i.e. when you deploy a module that depends on that library, a copy of the JAR file is included in the enterprise application that is deployed. The technote describes how to deploy the library as a WebSphere shared library and have multiple modules depend on the same instance at runtime. This has the potential to reduce memory usage (the library is on a shared classloader) and ease managability. It does, however, mean that you need to be more careful about versioning of the library and breaking other dependent modules. If you’re not on 6.2 then note the list of APARs at the bottom of the document.

Other two underpasses (backwards)

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

With a different pair of shoes on I decided that my blister from the weekend could cope with an outing to the Forest. This month our start (and finish) point moved to the Canadian War Memorial, north of Emery Down. This week’s designated run was the “other two underpasses (backwards)”. Backwards meant anti-clockwise and for some reason no-one could remember ever having run the route that way before. One side effect was that we usually add a bit of a loop on to the end to kill some time – we tried to compensate for this by adding a bit of a loop on the start but failed to take long enough and therefore had to add another loop on at the other end (with some adding a bigger loop than others). Afterwards we repaired to the New Forest Inn to hear Stuart’s tails of daring do at the Marathon des Sables.

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Double O Severn

Monday, May 4th, 2009

744We spent the bank holiday weekend with Christine’s parents (and assorted other orienteering members of the family) notionally to attend the Triple O Severn event in the Forest of Dean. The assembly area for every day was Speech House which seemed to work well. Saturday was a regional event on the area that they had chosen to call Mallards Pike (south-east of assembly). The Black course was fairly sparcely populated as anyone running the Elite classes the following day had to do a special middle distance course as the colour-coded courses used part of the area they would compete on.

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Yet more ponds

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

After an enforced couple of weeks I made it back to Fritham for the last run of the month. Thankfully the afternoon rain cleared and we had a pleasant enough tour around the six ponds (clockwise this time). Canadian War Memorial next month…

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Epping VM

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

742This year’s Oxford-Cambridge Orienteering Varsity Match took place this weekend, a little later than originally scheduled. We went along to the individual event on Saturday held at Epping Forest North West. I had a run on the Mens A course and Christine took Emma round most of the Womens B in the running buggy. I was over 10 minutes slower than the winner, Mark Bown. I’ll put some of it down to helping Christine with the buggy on the way to number one and number two being in the wrong place. As a result of which, the splits show that I was already five minutes down on Mark when I left the second control.

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Dynamic JMS endpoints revisited

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

This is a long overdue update to a previous post on achieving dynamic JMS endpoints in WebSphere ESB. As several people have commented, WebSphere ESB 6.2 added support for dynamic endpoints for all of the bindings types as documented in the InfoCenter. A couple of points to note:

  1. The syntax of the endpoint URI used for the JMS bindings uses JNDI names to refer to the resources and is therefore not truly dynamic in the sense that JMS destinations need to have been pre-configured for all of the messaging provider destinations to which you might want to send.
  2. For a native MQ binding, you can currently only modify the queue dynamically and not the queue manager to which you can connect.

Cornish Holiday

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

739We headed down to Cornwall over the Easter period to visit my brother-in-law and his wife at Falmouth. In a very cosy arrangement their landlord let us stay in one of the other barn conversions where they live. These were previously holiday lets and are still fully fitted out. This meant we had our own space but were still nice and handy. We started our journey down on Thursday, stopping at the Tumbling Weir Hotel for the night. This was nice enough all mealtimes were a bit child unfriendly: dinner service starts at 7pm and breakfast isn’t until 8:30am. Trying to find somewhere else in Ottery St Mary to have dinner didn’t prove too easy either. The suspicion is that the hotel makes most of its money from weddings.

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Return to the Ridge

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

We made the most of the passing of the British Champs and tonight’s run returned to the previously embargoed Hampton Ridge. Numbers were down a bit on last week but still riding high. Unfortunately we enjoyed running across the clear forest floors rather too much and came out on the plain rather too far north. In an attempt to recoup some time we then didn’t head as far west which made things a little scrappy going south.

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