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 Tracking CPU consumption programmatically in zWAS

PerformanceThis API is very handy if you need to figure out which part of your code is consuming MIPS on zWAS.  WebSphere on zOS has special API [pdf] to retrieve that information.  

Posted by billylo on Thursday, May 10 @ 09:40:09 EDT (54 reads)
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 WebSphere Insights digital magazine

AnnouncementsA new digital magazine known as WebSphere Insights is now available (free).  

Posted by billylo on Tuesday, May 08 @ 13:39:37 EDT (60 reads)
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 IMPACT highlights

IBMJust returned from IMPACT this year.  About 9000 people attended this year.  A ton of new announcements around the WebSphere platform; especially capabilities to support mobile.  A couple of highlights for you:

  1. WAS 8.5 - This is not a small 0.5 release by any measure.  All of the HA features in WebSphere Virtual Enterprise (e.g. on-demand router, application versioning support, dynamic clusters) are now folded into WAS ND 8.5; as well as the WebSphere Batch framework (Compute Grid.)  A lot of new HA features for administrators and the new Liberty Profile for Developers (lightweight, fast starting J2EE container).
  2. IBM Mobile Foundation - includes Worklight for mobile development and Mobile Endpoint Management
  3. BPM 8.0 - new Web 2.0 style UIs, iPhone and iPad support, 
  4. DataPower Firmware 5 - OAuth Support, use of AO in XG45, extended memory access 96 Gb on XI52
  5. CastIron Live Web API Management - Developer Portal, Integration on the cloud, metering, etc
My own session ("Top 10 SOA Best Practices to support innovations in mobile and analytics") went well.  You can download my slides here too.

More on WAS 8.5 a little later.

Cheers.  Billy.


Posted by billylo on Tuesday, May 08 @ 10:16:00 EDT (125 reads)
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 WebSphere JAX-WS web services troubleshooting

Web servicesThe first thing is usually to enable the message trace (traceSpec=com.ibm.ws.websvcs.trace.*=all) so that you can inspect the request/responses in the trace file.

For more specific items, see this JAX-WS troubleshooting article from Phil Adams.


Posted by billylo on Friday, March 16 @ 08:57:36 EDT (242 reads)
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 DataPower XC10 caching appliance as a side cache for XI52

PerformanceXC10 is a generic caching appliance that provides external caches to Java apps (e.g. as an external cache provider for WebSphere dynacache) and non-Java caching (e.g. as a cache for XI52 integration appliance.)

Charles Le Vay and his team provided an introduction here.

Posted by billylo on Monday, March 12 @ 05:37:07 EDT (219 reads)
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 DMZ Proxy Server that comes with WebSphere AppServer

SecurityOne of the little known features in WAS 6.0 and above is called WebSphere Proxy Server that comes with WAS.  In fact, there are three different types of them:  WebSphere Proxy Server, DMZ Secured Proxy and Edge Component Caching Proxy.  (in addition to the HTTP server plug-in:  which is also another kind of proxy.)

This article describes the details of the first type (WebSphere Proxy Server).  If you are curious about how WebSphere Proxy Server is different from HTTP server plugins, check out this comparison.)

WebSphere Proxy Server is basically a caching reverse proxy that understands the WAS topology, interacts with Dmgr and can cache dynamic content (e.g. servlet outputs) as well as static content.  It can be managed from the WAS admin console and JMX.

Posted by billylo on Monday, March 12 @ 05:22:50 EDT (212 reads)
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 Happy holidays for all WebSpherians

AnnouncementsWish all of you a happy holidays and prosperous new year!  Billy.

Posted by billylo on Sunday, December 25 @ 07:23:43 EST (266 reads)
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 Administer your WebSphere servers from Andriod phones

InfrastructureCheck out this tool called WASdroid.   Mobile admin client for simple things in WAS.  Cool and Free.

Posted by billylo on Tuesday, October 11 @ 11:23:51 EDT (582 reads)
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 WebSphere Expert Arena

IBMIf you need to learn / test a WebSphere product quickly, you can use these pre-installed images from IBM without going through the big downloads and installation of products.   http://www-01.ibm.com/software/websphere/education/arena/

Posted by billylo on Monday, August 29 @ 10:50:42 EDT (752 reads)
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 IBM WebSphere Emerging Technologies community

IBMWebSphere Emerge is a good place to learn about emerging areas such as OSGi, Cloud, JPA, REST, Extreme Transaction Processing, etc.

Posted by billylo on Thursday, August 11 @ 10:53:27 EDT (827 reads)
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 Running CICS Cobol applications in WebSphere (WXTR)

IBMIf you have COBOL applications running in AIX, you can now use an interesting new solution called WXTR to host the COBOL applications on WebSphere eXtended Transaction Runtime.

Posted by billylo on Wednesday, April 13 @ 20:18:13 EDT (1335 reads)
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 WAS 8 is finally here, along with WebSphere Process Manager and more..

AnnouncementsWAS 8 is officially announced this morning, along with the Mobile and Web 2.0 Feature Pack. 

A new product called WebSphere Process Manager is also introduced... combining capabilities from Lombardi, WPS and ILOG.

A combined and pre-integrated bundle called WESB Registry Edition [pdf] is also announced.  It makes WESB/WSRR work together out of the box, which is great.

Posted by billylo on Monday, April 11 @ 15:41:24 EDT (1582 reads)
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 Live from IMPACT 2011... Getting started on Day 1

IBMI am back at IMPACT this year.  The scale of the conference has certainly grown quite a bit this year.  Over 8000 attendees are gathering at the keynote session. 

We  can expect more product announcements and upgrades.  There is a Forbes Business Leader track as well.  A ton of technical sessions running in parallel.  I will blog about the highlights as the day progresses.

If you are there as well, feel free to chime in!



Posted by billylo on Monday, April 11 @ 12:53:37 EDT (1356 reads)
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 1/2 hr Tech Chats from IBM

Announcements[Thanks to our reader Bandita Tripathy...]

"The new IBM TechChat Series is designed for IT professionals who want to chat with technical experts about certain topics, and to address questions they might have along the way.  Each TechChat is for 30 mins and is offered "live" in three different time zones worldwide.

In fact, the chat window has a built-in translation capability that allows people around the world to chat at the same time in virtually any language!  

You can register for one or more of these TechChats, and have an opportunity to submit any questions to experts in advance, by following this link:  http://www.ibm.com/smarter/techchats"

The next one is scheduled for April 14 on application performance.



Posted by billylo on Wednesday, March 30 @ 09:50:39 EDT (1110 reads)
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 Preparing for WebSphere AppServer and Portal Certification? Check out this blog

EducationThis blog, titled WebSphere Notes is a good source of learning items for preparing for WebSphere certification.  Enjoy!

Posted by billylo on Tuesday, March 22 @ 14:23:37 EDT (1685 reads)
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