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05 November 2008
Connect WebSphere and Java applications to SQL Server
FYI: The MS JDBC Driver is completely tested by IBM for use with WebSphere App Server v6.1 and v7.0. From the IBM Announcement for WebSphere Application Server v7.0 : WebSphere Application Server V7.0 does not include the WebSphere Connect JDBC driver Read More...
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30 June 2008
PowerShell CMDLets for WebSphere MQ - administer queues on Windows or Linux
Last year, I wrote about the idea of PowerShell CmdLets for WebSphere MQ. PowerShell is a beautiful scripting environment, you see, and it allows you to load any managed class library and then call into it. This is what allows me to, for example, create Read More...
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07 February 2008
Interop enables IT Agility (sell that Mainframe on ebay?)
Here's an interesting story! January 30, 2008 (Computerworld) An IBM zSeries mainframe that Palm Beach Community College bought for about a half-million dollars in 2005 was sold this month on eBay for $40,000. Mainframes and other IT systems "depreciate Read More...
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16 November 2007
JMS Adapters for .NET & BizTalk
Love it! I previously posted about a beta of the JNBridge JMS Adapters. I just got a form email from the company that they've publicly released their adapters. There's a version of the adpater for .NET apps - this allows any .NET app to connect to any Read More...
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09 October 2007
Benchmarks and Interop: IBM responds to StockTrader
Just saw comments by Andrew Spyker of IBM on the StockTrader demonstration and benchmark that my buddy and esteemed colleague Greg Leake put together. IBM's Trade 6.1 benchmark application is a sample and performance testing application published by IBM, Read More...
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02 October 2007
Keeping it real on SOA
Bobby Wolfe of IBM told no lies when he said that Clients often want to build only an ESB, because that involves a technology challenge without the need for messy business requirements. Building just an ESB becomes an IT field of dreams, where IT builds Read More...
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13 September 2007
SOA Story featuring WebSphere and WCF Interop, and wow! Look at those prices!
This is an older story, but you may have missed it. (I did!) Insurance provider Safeco initiated a SOA effort and within that, built a new application using WebSphere Process Server, ASP.NET, and WCF Services written in C#. The story was written up on Read More...
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20 August 2007
Improving WCF interop with Websphere/RAD by controlling WSDL Generation
I wrote about Christian's foray into this area a while back . Now comes news that other people are confronting the same issue, but with Websphere or Rational App Developer. Here's the problem: WCF emits WSDL that is modular - the base WSDL file references Read More...
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20 August 2007
Feature Pack for Websphere improves interop with .NET
Back in June, IBM Announced the Feature Pack for Web Services for WebSphere Application Server V6.1 , which adds new support for WS-* protocols into Websphere App Server. Find the announcement here . In the announcement IBM stated that the feature pack Read More...
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09 August 2007
Fact Check – IBM’s Steve Mills claims on MS and SOA
We saw an article on CNET that included quotes from Steve Mills of IBM directly related to Interop, SOA and Microsoft. Since Interop is one of our passions, we thought it would be worthwhile to respond. Given that we are approaching an election here in Read More...
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27 July 2007
StockTrader - now with source code
Last month I wrote about the .NET StockTrader app , an app that shows Interop between .NET/WCF services and services running under IBM WebSphere. The .NET source code is now available. Download it here . The main stocktrader page on MSDN will be updated Read More...
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23 July 2007
IBM WebSphere Registry/Repository and Interop with .NET, part 2
In a prior post , I said that there was no good interop story between .NET and the IBM WebSphere Registry and Repository (WSRR). I said this based on an examination of the WSRR documentation. IBM's product doc is available online and keeping to the IBM Read More...
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16 July 2007
Custom WCF Channel for IBM MQ
IBM have shipped an early version of a Custom WCF Channel for MQ. The dev team in Hursley contacted me to solicit feedback. It's apparently pretty simple now, supporting only SOAP one-way messaging, but they say if there is sufficient interest and feedback, Read More...
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27 June 2007
What about this SCA thing?
Ever heard of SCA ? Service Component Architecture? (Leave it to the English-speaking people to glom together 3 nouns and expect people to understand what that jumble of words is supposed to mean. In the glass-houses dept: shades of "Windows Communication Read More...
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18 June 2007
.NET StockTrader shows Interop between WCF and WebSphere
Customers looking to build distributed applications according to the principles of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) can use the new .NET StockTrader as a blueprint. This new sample/performance kit download includes full source code and a technical Read More...
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