A quick post to highlight that I’m in Düsseldorf this week as a last minute stand-in for my colleague Simon Holdsworth at the WebSphere Technical Conference. I’ll be giving his Introduction to WebSphere ESB and WebSphere ESB Best Practices and Performance Recommendations on Tuesday afternoon, What’s New in WebSphere ESB V7.0 on Wednesday and then running the WebSphere ESB Birds of a Feather session that follows. I’ll also be at the Connectivity Panel Q&A on Monday afternoon which is probably the best place to catch me if you’d like to meet up at some point for a chat about the product or just to say Hi!
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Sunday, October 10th, 2010WebSphere ESB 7.0.0.3
Monday, September 6th, 2010On Friday, we released Fix Pack 7.0.0.3 for the BPM stack including WebSphere ESB. This was what we call a “development led” fix pack which generally means that, in addition to the usual round-up of fixes, there is some additional new function. In this case, we have been working hard on the new business object lazy parsing mode that first surfaced as a technology preview at the end of last year. Previously, although we had various performance enhancements to avoid parsing the message body if it was never touched by a mediation flow, as soon as you did touch it, we parsed the whole message in to a Service Data Object. With the new mode, we only parse as much of the message as is required to evaluate each expression. As you might imagine, this is largely done in the name of performance and the improvement is particularly significant with partial access to large messages. Sadly, were not quite done with this work and all over the update notes you’ll see a statement indicating that lazy mode is now out of tech preview but only for modules that do not contain mediation flows.
One of the other significant points about this fix pack is the move to WebSphere Application Server 7.0.0.11 and, in particular, the fact that this finally has an Installation Manger based install process. This means that you can finally install both the Application Server, ESB and fixes for both, all using the same install technology. Unfortunately you will have to use the old Update Installer to remove any ifixes that you have already installed.
New WESB/WPS book
Friday, July 16th, 2010I’ve just been asked to review a new book entitled “Application Development for IBM WebSphere Process Server 7 and Enterprise Service Bus 7“. I can certainly vouch for the credentials of one of the two IBM authors having worked with Salil Ahuja. As part of the AIM Early Programs team he’s in a perfect position to have both a breadth of knowledge across the products and a good understanding of what customers need and want to know. The sample chapter online (which happens to cover mediation module development) looks promising so I look forward to receiving my review copy.
WebSphere ESB V7 available
Friday, December 11th, 2009WebSphere ESB (and Process Server) Version 7.0 is generally available as of today which, amongst other things, means that I’m free to blog at will about the product content. As is traditional, I’ll start with an overview of what’s new in this release of the product (and the associated WebSphere Integration Developer tooling). Over the coming weeks I hope to cover each of these areas in more detail.
DynaCache and WebSphere ESB/Process Server
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009Building WebSphere ESB and Process Server on WebSphere Application Server means that they benefit from the scalability, reliability, transactionality and security of the underlying platform. Another advantage is that you, as a developer, have access to all of the underlying capabilities of the application server. In a recent article, Alan Hopkins (Dr Alan to you apparently!) demonstrated the use of the object cache to provide a shared variable between two modules. On a similar vein, another UK ISSW consultant Gabriel Telerman has just published a detailed tutorial describing how to use DynaCache from an SCA Java component to improve performance in a WebSphere ESB or Process Server environment. Now Gaby, can I have that pint now for the plug?
Version 7 announcement
Monday, October 19th, 2009Two weeks ago I was a little pre-occupied with my own announcement and consequently failed to highlight the announcement for the next version of WebSphere ESB, Process Server and Integration Developer.
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Messaging Administration Guide
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009I’ve largely given up posting links to interesting content on this site – see my delicious feed for that. However, many of my original posts related to messaging and WebSphere Application Server and hence I suspect a reasonable proportion of those who stumble across this site are interested in that subject. Consequently, I feel it’s appropriate to advertise the new WebSphere Application Server V7 Messaging Administration Guide. This document covers both the default messaging provider and WebSphere MQ support. Don’t be misled by the title – although it does provide detailed information on the administration of resources, the background information on concepts and topologies is equally relevant to developers and architects. The document also has a good section on securing the default messaging provider.
Connection timeout on web service import
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009Here’s a short write-up of the answer to a question I was posed by a colleague yesterday: how do you set the timeout for a web service import? The answer, as any good consultant would say, is that it depends…
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