The 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.
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WebSphere Process Server made easy
Saturday, December 9th, 2006Rational V7 desktop products
Saturday, December 9th, 2006I’m looking forward to laying my hands on the recently announced latest desktop products in the Rational Software Delivery Platform. On developerWorks you can find a selection of articles covering the new features in Rational Application Developer and Rational Software Architect.
WebSphere Business Services Fabric
Saturday, December 9th, 2006Chris has posted on the launch of WebSphere Business Services Fabric v6.0 following IBM’s acquisition of Webify. At the moment this product is only on the very edge of my radar but it’s undoubtedly something I shall be keeping an eye on.
Service Registry and Repository Fix Pack 1
Friday, December 8th, 2006The first Fix Pack for WebSphere Service Registry and Repository is now available. The support site only lists a single APAR fix but thanks to Arnauld for pointing out the README file that details the substantial set of improvements that come with this release:
- Added support for WebSphere Application Server ND.
- Install improvements to allow manual database creation.
- Install improvements to allow remote database.
- Ontology API now includes access via Web Services.
- Performance improvements when making large datagraphs governable.
- Performance improvements when importing a large data set.
- Retrieval of data objects can be limited to a depth of 0, 1.
- Additional languages now supported
Exploring Web services
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006Rational Application Developer and WebSphere Integration Developer both come with a piece of functionality known as the Web Services Explorer. Part of the unit test client, this provides a user interface for invoking WSDL defined Web services. Until now, I’ve always used the Explorer by right-clicking on a piece of WSDL and selecting Web Services > Test with Web Services Explorer. This is all very well if the WSDL happens to be in your workspace. What I hadn’t realised until this week is that you can also use the Explorer with any arbitrary URL addressable WSDL.
Customizing the Service Registry and Repository UI
Friday, December 1st, 2006One of the beauties of WebSphere Service Registry and Repository product is it’s flexibility. The development team have begun a new developerWorks series looking at customizing the web based administrative console. The first article covers the basic architecture and concepts but the series promises to go on to cover the ultimate in customization: a new perspective.
JMS Application Server Facilities
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006On the basis of a thread of notes I was involved in this week, I was considering a post on the WebSphere Application Server support for JMS providers that don’t implement the Application Server Facilities (ASF) part of the JMS specification. As the name suggests, these facilities cover aspects of integration between a JMS provider and a J2EE application server such as transactionality and message-driven bean support. Paul Titheridge (who works in the service team covering the WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Application Server JMS providers) has done the hard work for me and written a developerWorks article on the subject.
Feature Pack for Web services podcast
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006In a previous posting I covered the Feature Pack for Web services. This week’s developerWorks Making SOA real with WebSphere podcast includes an interesting interview with Nathan Goike on this subject. Points of particular interest to me was the inclusion of Apache Axis2 and the use of policy sets to ease Web service configuration.
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