Just 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.
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Thursday, December 28th, 2006Registry 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.
WebSphere ESB JMS bindings
Monday, December 11th, 2006The second part of Rachel and Andre’s series on Building an Enterprise Service Bus using WebSphere ESB looks at placing a WebSphere ESB mediation between an MDB and JMS client. In this case the requester and provider both deal in the serialized business object XML but don’t forget that you can use the JMS data bindings to provide custom mappings from other external message formats to that expected by the SCA runtime.
File conversion
Sunday, December 10th, 2006A plug for a site put together by a Hursley colleague and his brother. Zamzar provides free online file conversion. Upload a document, image, video or music, select the type of conversion, enter your e-mail address and click convert. After a short delay you get an e-mail back with a link to your converted document.
WebSphere Process Server made easy
Saturday, December 9th, 2006The first in a series of three introductory tutorials on WebSphere Process Server is available on developerWorks. Interestingly, the tutorials are aimed at administrators, not developers, and are designed for those coming from a WebSphere Application Server background.