I’m finally finding some time to take a look at WebSphere ESB 6.0.2. The endpoint lookup mediation primitive for determining endpoint addresses based on information retrieved from WebSphere Service Registry and Repository was near the top of my list of things to try. Just as I was about to give up hope of getting it to work, a note arrived from Greg Flurry pointing out that you need to have Fix Pack 1 of Service Registry and Repository. Importantly, he also included a link to the install documentation in the InfoCenter. The update failed the first time as my machine was crawling along and the SOAP connection timed out. Having shutdown a few spare processes the fix pack went on fine and the primitive now works like a charm. Note that you can also install directly from the fix pack.
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Endpoint lookup mediation primitive
Monday, January 15th, 2007developerWorks WebSphere newsletter
Monday, January 8th, 2007The weekly developerWorks WebSphere newsletter, the prompt for many of my postings on this site and previously only available to IBMers, is now open to all. Sign up here.
MDB 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.
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.
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.
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