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New command line utility for observing grids in Extreme Scale V6.1.0.3 onwards (DevWebsphere)

bnewport@us.ibm.com (Billy Newport) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:26:48 GMT

We added an internal utility to make observing a running grid easier starting in V6.1.0.3. The information was always accessible using JMX but this trapped it without a convenient way to examine it. Customers had using Mc4J or other JMX...

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[3/5] IBM WebSphere Portal Server Authentication Bypass (Latest Secunia Security Advisories)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:46:46 GMT

Charles Gillman has reported a vulnerability in WebSphere Portal Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions. Be sure to check if your system is missing security updates or have insecure applications installed: http://secunia.com/software_inspector/ Feature Overview - The Secunia Software Inspector: * Detects insecure versions of applications installed...

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WebSphere Turns 10 (Planet Intertwingly)

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:00:00 GMT

WebSphere has turned 10 years old. WebSphere Application Server was first released ten years ago. The anniversary was actually a couple of months ago; here's an article on this milestone: " IBM WebSphere at 10 " (eWeek). Technorati Tags: websphere , ibm | | Digg it | Slashdot it | Post to del.icio.us |

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Google protocol buffers, pretty cool (DevWebsphere)

bnewport@us.ibm.com (Billy Newport) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:54:47 GMT

I just spotted this. Google prototype buffers. It looks like an extensible IDL like way to describe objects that need to be serialized between machines and between languages. It's all Apache 2.0 licensed so if you're looking for efficient object...

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The dangers of virtualization and datagrids (DevWebsphere)

bnewport@us.ibm.com (Billy Newport) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:05:53 GMT

Virtualization offers quite a few advantages for customers running large data centers but care needs to be taken when using memory replication technologies like DataGrids. The particular problem here is that each virtual machine looks like a real server as...

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Extreme Scale V6.1.0.3 ships today (DevWebsphere)

bnewport@us.ibm.com (Billy Newport) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:43:28 GMT

This has been an incredible amount of work but it's finally shipped today. I'd recommend all customers look at moving to the new code level as it contains many many functional and non functional improvements. The following covers the major...

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Fortify warns of configuration weaknesses in SOA deployments (ZD Net)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:22:44 GMT

Security code review specialists Fortify Software has issued a warning about major configuration weaknesses affecting SOA service oriented architecture deployments from IBM, Microsoft and Apache. According to Fortify, certain configurations of Apache Axis, Apache Axis 2, IBM WebSphere 6.1, Microsoft .NET Web Services Enhancements WSE 2.0 and...

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Speaking at DB2 Information on Demand Conference in late October in Las Vegas (DevWebsphere)

bnewport@us.ibm.com (Billy Newport) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:17:11 GMT

I've gotten accepted to speak at the IOD conference during Oct 26-31 in Las Vegas on WebSphere eXtreme Scale and DB2 integration.

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Blog entry on database sharding (DevWebsphere)

bnewport@us.ibm.com (Billy Newport) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:05:11 GMT

Check it out here .

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MLB uses Web 2.0 to improve officiating (Wikinomics.com)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:38:14 GMT

A few weeks, my colleague Ben Letalik wrote about the MLB in his weekly Wikinomics Report Card. This Tuesday, the MLB announced that it began installing IBM software “to exploit the next generation of the Internet.” “The IBM WebSphere Portal software architecture allows us to consolidate information from a variety of sources. It enables collaboration within [...]

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Video interview on fractal virtualization, xtp, datagrids on infoq with myself (DevWebsphere)

bnewport@us.ibm.com (Billy Newport) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:28:24 GMT

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Running IBM WebSphere Application Server on System p and AIX Optimization and Best Practices (IBM Redbooks | Just Published)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:00:00 GMT

Draft Redbook, last updated: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 - System p and AIX configuration strategies for IBM WebSphere Application Server - Under the hood: how the JVM runtime and WAS interact with the AIX platform - Implementation Scenarios This book is dedicated to the topic of running the IBM Java Virtual Machine for AIX and WebSphere Application Server v6.1 on IBM System p and the AIX 5L operating...

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Dashcourses International Announces Free Test Drive Series (Business Wire)

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:12:00 GMT

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dashcourses International announces a FREE series of Test Drive Technology training sessions beginning with Test Drives on J2EE, IBM WebSphere, USB, PCI

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IBM WebSphere MQ – PowerShell Library (Lab49 Blog)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:09:03 GMT

A library which allows for command-line and script-based administration of WebSphere MQ queue managers from the PowerShell. SupportPac Dale Lane Using PowerShell with remote queue managers via All About Interop

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Interop: from Java/RMI over SOAP to WS-* demo on Open Source !! (MSDN Blogs)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:43:00 GMT

Interesting message from Robert Wahbe, MS Corporate VP Connected Systems Division: "A decade ago, Microsoft competed in a world in which promises of interoperability were tightly associated with Java and J2EE middleware products such as IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLogic. Last week at TechEd, Bob Muglia conclusively demonstrated how much Microsoft’s ten-year investment in XML and Web Services changed...

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Genuitec sets IBM, Java tools (InfoWorld)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:45:00 GMT

Genuitec, maker of Eclipse-based developer tools, has unveiled upgraded IDEs for IBM WebSphere and Java as well as assistance for utilizing the new Eclipse Ganymede project release The company this week introduced MyEclipse 6.5 Blue Edition , an application lifecycle management platform and IDE for IBM WebSphere. In this version, users can run multiple WebSphere server instances...

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Red book for IBM Websphere 6.1 - Web Services Feature Pack (Planet Intertwingly)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:28:25 GMT

The WebSphere 6.1 Feature Pack for Web Services offers a new and improved implementation of Java web services and improved usability. Some of the changes simplify existing solutions; others enable new solutions requiring more secure and reliable services, asynchronous interaction patterns, and more complex data models. The Feature pack for Web services offers a preliminary [...]

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java.lang.SecurityException: class "com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection"'s signer information does not match signer information of other classes in the same package (MSDN Blogs)

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:55:00 GMT

We have heard from customers using WebSphere 6.0 and trying to use the v1.2 JDBC driver that they are encountering the above exception. This problem is primarily due to a name mismatch between our JDBC driver and another vendor's jdbc driver. While the v1.2 JDBC driver is supported by IBM WebSphere 6.1, it is not officially supported on WebSphere 6.0. We recommend customers to...

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Computing Framework targets mid to large enterprises. (Thomas Net)

info@productnews.com (ThomasNet Industrial Newsroom) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:35:04 GMT

Built on IBM WebSphere sMash and Service Oriented Architecture, Enterprise 2.0 Computing Framework enables businesses to protect core legacy system investments while leveraging tools and development languages to streamline programming, processing, enhancements, and integration of applications. Using sMash, companies can deliver dynamic web 2.0 based applications from pre-existing assets, such...

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New build of WebSphere eXtreme Scale/ObjectGrid available (DevWebsphere)

bnewport@us.ibm.com (Billy Newport) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:11:46 GMT

We just published a new build which we recommend for everyone. Lots of performance/scalability improvements and some bug fixes. This build is the basis for the 6.1.0.3 release coming soon. You can download it from here and the evaluation copy...

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