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Monday, January 8th, 2007MDB reconnection
Sunday, January 7th, 2007The asynchronous nature of message-driven beans means that the JMS provider must be permanently connected to the messaging system in order to know when a message is available for delivery. I received a question last week as to what WebSphere Application Server’s behaviour is when that connection is broken.
Image recovery
Sunday, January 7th, 2007A couple of weeks back I managed to wipe an SD camera card having failed to copy across a few images. Nothing too disastorous but I thought I’d see if I could get them back. Top marks to Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery which found 120 images on the card including the ones I’d deleted. Meanwhile, my brother, who made the rather more serious mistake of wiping a whole USB hard drive only to discover the last backup had failed, has good things to say about the freeware PC INSPECTOR File Recovery.
IBM Software Support Toolbar
Thursday, December 28th, 2006Just spotted that the IBM Software Support Toolbar is now available for Firefox. This plugin provides search capability across the support knowledge base and downloads as well as key links to support sites and documentation specific to each product family.
Registry and Repository Redbook
Thursday, December 28th, 2006A draft of the WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Handbook is now available.
All the twos
Thursday, December 28th, 2006Santa arrived early with the latest release of IBM’s business integration products. WebSphere Process Server 6.0.2 and WebSphere ESB 6.0.2 were both released just before Christmas. There is a developerWorks article providing an overview of the new features. WebSphere Integration Developer 6.0.2 is also available as an update via the Rational Product Updater (as is the first ifix). Note that this will also bring the Process Server installation that forms part of the Integration Test Environment up to the 6.0.2 level. For the runtimes, make sure you also get the critical fixes.
New Popular Edition Maps
Wednesday, December 13th, 2006Search to see what your area looked like in the 1940s on the New Popular Edition Maps. If you can locate somewhere you know, enter the postcode and update their free database. (Free The Postcode has a similar mission.) There’s not much hope of finding our house as, back then, Chandler’s Ford was pretty much restricted to the triangle between Hursley Road, Hiltingbury Road and Winchester Road.
WebSphere Application Server V6.1 security
Monday, December 11th, 2006Two words you don’t often see in the same sentence: simplicity and security. Peter Birk and Keys Botzum have written an in-depth article covering the enhancements to the SSL, certificate, and key management, capabilities for WebSphere Application Server in Version 6.1.
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