Arrived in Salzburg

November 12th, 2006

Joined 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.

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WebSphere MQ JMS message selection

November 9th, 2006

Of 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.

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developerWorks articles

November 9th, 2006

Another 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.

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WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Eclipse plug-in

November 8th, 2006

The 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.

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Authentication aliases

November 8th, 2006

I 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.

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Wood Crates and leaden legs

November 8th, 2006

Sunday was another glorious day. This time we were out in the New Forest for the SOC November Classic. Cruelly, not only were we helping early, but I was shouting out names at the start line. This wasn’t good for either my alcohol induced headache or sore throat! When the time came to run I was dehydrated, my legs were tired (mainly from the OMM last weekend) and my left ankle was sore from slipping off a kerbstone in the previous day’s city race.

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JOK AGM and dinner

November 8th, 2006

Saturday evening saw the JOK AGM and dinner of which there is a short write-up on the JOK website. I managed to escape the AGM with a question on why Google AdSense had paid the club just 18 pence (this being the transfer to validate the club’s bank account). Earnings are so far around $60 – still too little to actually receive any money. Someone obviously wasn’t drinking their fair share of the wine at dinner as far too much of it ended up in my glass. Indeed, I don’t remember Christine’s speech at all despite having taken several photos of it!

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Oxford City Race

November 7th, 2006

220OUOC were blessed with a fantastic bright autumn day for their Oxford City Race on Saturday. Three hundred competitors converged on University Parks for what was to be an exciting day’s racing. We both had late starts so were able to soak up the atmosphere and hear the stories from early runners. One thing was certain – care was needed when navigating Wadham not to end up in the college kitchens!

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