The JMS Problem Determination Redpaper covering WebSphere Application Server Version 6.1 was published at the start of the month. As the long list of authors indicates, Rich Coppen has done a fantastic job in getting input from the whole of the development team so this is a pretty comprehensive resource.
JMS problem determination
October 12th, 2007German travels
October 12th, 2007I’ve spent the last few days at a customer workshop in Münster. I wish more of my trips went as smoothly as the journey out. Christine gave me a lift to Southampton Airport and within 20 minutes of leaving home I had cleared security. The flybe flight in to Düsseldorf arrived so early that Hertz were looking in the wrong pile of car keys. (They gave me a Peugeot again but at least it was a 207 this time!) The directions for the drive to Münster worked like a treat (Map24 is my favourite route planner at the moment when it comes to printing European directions). The only minor niggle was that, on arrival at the hotel, they couldn’t give me a door key that worked and someone had to let me in until they fixed it the following morning. Even then, I was still tucked up in my bed just four hours after leaving the house.
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JMS connection pooling again
October 7th, 2007I gave Paul’s original article a plug back in August however the second article in his series on JMS connection pooling with WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere MQ is another mine of deep technical information so is worth another mention. The piece on surge protection in particular was new to me.
Ruby and Zero
October 7th, 2007Out of the box, Project Zero supports PHP and Groovy as scripting languages but, as this developerWorks article demonstrates, extending Zero to support other languages is pretty trivial. In this instance, they show how adding support for Ruby (specifically JRuby) can be achieved with one simple class. Now Rails developers have no excuse not to take a look at Zero!
Hoards at Hut Wood
October 6th, 2007Having agreed to take over SOC’s postponed local event at nearby Hut Wood (between Chandler’s Ford and Southampton) it transpired that most of the work required for an event was still to be done. Attendance at local event’s can be as low as half a dozen so, given the time I’d spent, it was gratifying when nearly 40 competitors turned up. In addition to the white, yellow and orange for beginners, there was a 45 minute score event. The latter had a snooker theme inherited from the event’s original organiser, Philip Cooper, who, in turn, had brought the idea back from Hungary.
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Messaging identities
October 5th, 2007Given Alasdair has been kind enough to include me in the acknowledgements, that guarantees him a plug for his developerWork’s comment line entitled “Connect an application to the default messaging provider using the run-as identity“. This describes how to connect to the default messaging provider in WebSphere Application Server using the application’s current runtime run-as identity rather than, as is usually the case, the credentials administratively associated with the connection factory or resource reference. As always, just because something is possible, doesn’t mean you should do it, so please head Alasdair’s comments about what to consider before implementation.
Schmap photos
October 1st, 2007A couple of weeks back, I had a message via Flickr asking whether Schmap could include a couple of my photos in their free online city guides. I didn’t have a problem with this and you can now find them here and here. I have to say I’m a bit dubious about a city guide that feels the need to include Oddbins in the shopping and food section, and even more so given they put my photo of Winchester Oddbins in the Southampton guide! I suspect they need to increase the resolution of their automated searches via the Flickr API.
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