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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.

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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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Changes at Hilliers

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

733We decided to avoid the potential holiday crowds in the New Forest today and went over to Hillier Gardens to make the most of the sunshine. I’m not sure when we last went but there have been a few changes in the intervening months: the wicker man in the children’s garden has been replaced by a giant spider, there are some pigs rooting around in the area adjacent to Ampfield Woods and, most excitingly for Emma, there is a new tree house replete with slide, scramble net and climbing wall – a definite hit. Sadly the early flowering rhododendrums and the magnolias were already past their best. I’ve put a few photos up on Flickr.

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Back to the Forest

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

As tradition dictates, with the clocks changed it was time to return to Fritham this evening for the first Tuesday night run of the summer. There was a cracking turnout with, if I counted correctly, 16 people running including a few new faces. The pace was a little faster than usual, particularly for myself, Neil Broderick, Ian Moran and Sam Massey, as the three of us had waited five minutes for Sam to turn up and get changed. Consequently, we spent the first three of the six ponds chasing down everyone else. 53 minutes is almost certainly my fastest time for that run!

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CompassSport Cup narrow miss

Monday, March 30th, 2009

It was the first round of the CompassSport Cup yesterday with our match being hosted by BADO at Pamber Forest (in the vicinity of Aldermaston). Christine retired from her run due to odd,baby related, pulls. I had a pretty decent run for once. My splits graph shows a sudden increase in speed from leg 7 onwards which is where I first sighted Ralph Street. In my defence, that was all it was, a sighting, and I didn’t see him again until 11 and then not again until 18. In fact, it was only from 20 onwards where I was actually chasing him (no chance of catching I’m afraid). I was fifth in the results but still over 5 minutes down on Dave Rollins who must have been flying. Emma managed to bring up the rear on the string course again but at least she was getting round under her own steam this time! Sadly (or not depending on your thoughts on travelling to Leicestershire for the final) SOC lost out narrowly to TVOC with SLOW having a clear win.

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Expecting

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

730Christine and I are pleased to announce that we’re expecting another child. We had the initial scan last week and with the blood test results also coming through clear we’re now spreading the word. Due date is 1 October although Christine’s adamant that’s a week early. When asked whether she’d like a little brother or sister, Emma is very consistent in her answer: ‘No’!

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Sold!

Friday, March 27th, 2009

727We returned from holiday to two offers on our house. One buyer then leapfrogged the other taking us to well within 5% of the asking price. With no further bidding we decided to accept the offer. However, the following day the other buyer came back with a higher offer again. Just a couple of thousand over but they also had the advantage of being a cash buyer. This is our first time selling and we were at a bit of a loss what to do. Asking around at work and a quick poll on Twitter seemed to suggest we should simply go for the highest offer. In the end though we did the honourable thing and stuck with the offer we had already accepted. Hopefully the good will this generated will help smooth the rest of the process. Now we just need to find somewhere to move to!

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