Many of the presentations at the conference are repeats from our internal services conference earlier this year which means I have some spare time to catch up on other work. One session I did go to today was Eric Herness (Chief Architect for WebSphere Business Integration) presenting the new content in Version 6.0.2 of WebSphere Process Service and ESB. I think it’s safe to say this is a refresh pack with more than a few functional enhancements!
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Presentation and dinner
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006Conference begins
Monday, November 13th, 2006Arrived in Salzburg
Sunday, November 12th, 2006Joined a long line of IBMers at Gatwick earlier today taking the Thomson Fly direct flight to Salzburg bound for the WebSphere Technical Conference and WebSphere Transaction and Messaging Technical Conference. It made a nice change that there was nowhere for the senior management to upgrade to! I can’t help feeling that the CICS development area will be looking a little empty next week though.
As Chris predicted it was raining when we arrived but the steep-sided mountains, capped with snow, somehow looked all the more impressive with brooding clouds perched on top. Decided to leave the DSLR at home but hopefully I’ll get a chance to take a few snaps later in the week. I should be in for a relatively easy time as I just have two introductory presentations to give (twice each) although I’m on the hook for a third should it’s presenter not arrive in time tomorrow.
WebSphere MQ JMS message selection
Thursday, November 9th, 2006Of my various publications, the one which seems to bring in the most questions at the moment is that relating to message groups in WebSphere MQ and how these are exposed through the JMS API. I should therefore confess that there are a couple of issues with the approach that the article describes.
developerWorks articles
Thursday, November 9th, 2006Another bumper crop of developerWorks articles this week, particularly in the WebSphere ESB space. Charlie Redlin kicks off an essential new series for anyone looking to take WebSphere Process Server or WebSphere ESB in to production. Charlie heads up the bring-up team that have been providing invaluable intellectual capital around deployment topologies. It is great to see that some of this is now going to make it out in to the public domain. For those at the other end of the scale, just getting started with WebSphere ESB, there is a new introductory tutorial as part of the Hello World series. This looks at creating a simple flow providing protocol conversion from SOAP/HTTP to JMS.
One of the ongoing web service battles is SOAP versus REST (Representational State Transfer). Greg Flurry provides an interesting article showing how to create an “adapter” Java component to invoke a RESTful service from WebSphere ESB or Process Server and how to expose a RESTful interface to an SCA module.
Lastly, Tim Baldwin from the WebSphere Service Registry and Repository development team has an introductory article looking at the EJB APIs to the product. This includes some samples which should provide a good starting point for anyone working in this area.
WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Eclipse plug-in
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006The Eclipse plug-in for WebSphere Service Registry and Repository slipped out last Friday as SupportPac SA02. The plug-in requires an Eclipse Version 3.0.2 or later shell so will work fine with WebSphere Integration Developer and Rational Application Developer. It enables the Registry to be queried, artefacts extracted from the Repository and then these, or other artefacts, published back to the Repository. Properties can be modified on artefacts and relationships added between them. Importantly, unlike the web GUI, the plug-in enables collections of artefacts to be published together without having to worry about the order in which they need to be published.
Authentication aliases
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006I had a couple of questions last week relating to authentication aliases. When using WebSphere Application Server resources built on the JCA support, including JDBC data sources and JMS connection factories, there are a number of different mechanisms for specifying security credentials.
J2EE newbies
Friday, November 3rd, 2006Whilst the majority of the customers I deal with are well versed in the ways of WebSphere, just occasionally I come across one that is not only new to WebSphere but also to the world of J2EE. In the past I have struggled to suggest suitable reading material, often resorting to the Sun J2EE tutorial as a starting point. Now Charlie Brown (who, as he hastens to point out, does have a beagle but not called Snoopy) has written an excellent introduction to J2EE the WebSphere way entitled “Experience J2EE! Using WebSphere Application Server V6.1“. It’s currently only a draft but, having taken a look at the messaging section, it’s well written and informative. There is even a chapter covering the, to my mind, advanced topic of importing a subject on to a message-driven bean’s thread using the credentials passed in a message. Be sure to rate the book so that we can ensure that Charlie’s good work can continue.
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