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com.ibm.bpe.util.ProcessAssertionError: com.ibm.bpe.util.ProcessAssertionError: Assertion Violation !(con!=null) in method >> com.ibm.bpe.databse.StmtHelper. prepareStmtUpdateTaskTemplateState (StmtHelper.java:101) If you see the following exception, ensure that your server (or deployment manager) can actually access the BPEDB. The connection object inside of the BPEL Database Statement Helper has become null for an unknown reason. You can go to the datasource for your BPEDB and click Test Connection. This will [...]

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Draft Redbook, last updated: Thu, 20 Nov 2008

- CICS WS-Security and SSL/TLS support
- Interoperability with WebSphere DataPower
- Using Tivoli Federated Identity Manager

The Web services support in CICS Transaction Server Version 3 enables your CICS programs to be Web service providers or requesters.

Draft Redbook, last updated: Thu, 20 Nov 2008

- Configuring WebSphere Process Server for z/OS in a clustered topology
- Incorporating WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS
- Troubleshooting the production topology

This book describes how to choose and configure a production topology for WebSphere Process Server for z/OS and WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS.

This article describes how to enable the sales catalog feature in the catalog asset store when using the extended sites model in WebSphere Commerce Version 6.0 Feature Pack 4.

Prepare for the IBM Certification Test 992, IBM WebSphere Business Modeler Advanced V6.1, Business Analysis and Design. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to develop a process model capable of simulation, as well as how to assess the risks and benefits of a future process design based on simulation data, process design goals, and using statistical distribution to describe allocation of resources in the model.

Part 4 of this series shows you how to build an IBM WebSphere ESB mediation module to interact with WebSphere Business Events, IBM's premier product for business event processing.

Prepare for the IBM Certification Test 992, IBM WebSphere Business Modeler Advanced V6.1, Business Analysis and Design. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to develop a process model capable of simulation, as well as how to assess the risks and benefits of a future process design based on simulation data, process design goals, and using statistical distribution to describe allocation of resources in the model.

This series of articles describes several important new administration features available in IBM WebSphere Application Server V7. Part 1 introduces these features and subsequent articles will explore specific features in detail. (IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal)

Prepare for the IBM Certification Test 992, IBM WebSphere Business Modeler Advanced V6.1, Business Analysis and Design. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to develop a process model capable of simulation, as well as how to assess the risks and benefits of a future process design based on simulation data, process design goals, and using statistical distribution to describe allocation of resources in the model.

Prepare for the IBM Certification Test 992, IBM WebSphere Business Modeler Advanced V6.1, Business Analysis and Design. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to develop a process model capable of simulation, as well as how to assess the risks and benefits of a future process design based on simulation data, process design goals, and using statistical distribution to describe allocation of resources in the model.

Let us show you how to integrate IBM Lotus Forms with IBM WebSphere Portal. As part of this integration, we show you how to create a portal application that responds to both a user request for a form and a user submission of a completed form.

If you plan on making the BPC Explorer available in a production environment, I suggest you read the following article.  It talks about customization and tuning options that are available. The piece is that probably most important is the one where you can define a threshold. A threshold will limit the number of instances/tasks that are [...]

Get an overview of the Abstract User Interface Markup Language (AUIML) Web Toolkit (AWT). Learn how the AWT makes it possible to develop Web 2.0 interfaces quickly and easily by merging the ease-of-use and expressiveness of the AUIML visual designer with the versatility of the Dojo toolkit. Rapid development of user interfaces is made possible thanks to the AUIML visual editor and also because of the availability of a number of ready-to-use patterns. Experience has shown that the combination of these two factors provide a significant increase in productivity, and this is even more true considering the fact that, currently, there is no comparable technology that targets a Dojo interface.

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) are staples of Web 2.0 development. In this installment of the Mastering Grails series, author Scott Davis demonstrates the native JSON and Ajax capabilities baked into the Web framework.

Adobe has released the free, open source Flex SDK framework to enable developers to create Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). The Flex framework provides you with a method of creating cross-browser, cross-platform Web applications that is quick and simple. Flex applications run in the Flash player, which is installed on the majority of Internet-connected computers, but Flex provides you with an object-oriented user interface framework similar to Java's Swing. In this tutorial, develop a Facebook application in Adobe Flex that displays a slideshow of a user's Facebook photo albums. The Facebook application will contain a Profile box listing all of the user's photo albums, each a link to a Flex slideshow of that album. The Flex application will use the Facebook REST API to fetch the photos of the selected Facebook album and dynamically generate the slideshow.

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) are staples of Web 2.0 development. In this installment of the Mastering Grails series, author Scott Davis demonstrates the native JSON and Ajax capabilities baked into the Web framework.

Adobe has released the free, open source Flex SDK framework to enable developers to create Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). The Flex framework provides you with a method of creating cross-browser, cross-platform Web applications that is quick and simple. Flex applications run in the Flash player, which is installed on the majority of Internet-connected computers, but Flex provides you with an object-oriented user interface framework similar to Java's Swing. In this tutorial, develop a Facebook application in Adobe Flex that displays a slideshow of a user's Facebook photo albums. The Facebook application will contain a Profile box listing all of the user's photo albums, each a link to a Flex slideshow of that album. The Flex application will use the Facebook REST API to fetch the photos of the selected Facebook album and dynamically generate the slideshow.

Boulder, Colorado is being wired as a smarter planet city.

I've talked about Technology for a Smarter Planet (More Smarter Planet Info) such as a Smarter Air-Traffic Control System. Now comes news in "Boulder, Colo.: America's First 'Smart Grid City'" (ABC News) talking about houses in Boulder being wired by Xcel Energy:

Soon, 50,000 homes in Boulder will soon be decked out with the latest in environmentally-friendly, energy-saving technology -- including solar panels, electric cars and, for some, a specialized heating, cooling and lighting system -- all of which will be integrated into a monitoring system that reports the home's carbon footprint to the homeowner.

More details about this program are in "Xcel moves hybrids one step further" (Denver Business Journal) and "Alternative Energy Economy - Part II" (IT World).

Of course, it's not all good news. One of the main features of Smart Grid City is that homeowners can produce their own electricity from sources like solar panels, and when they produce more than they can use (including charging batteries in the house and their hybrid/electric cars), they can add the excess power to the city grid. What they add gets subtracted from the power they use from the grid. Ultimately, if a house generates more power than it uses, the homeowner gets paid by the power company. A good idea? No so fast. "Consumers as Producers" (Wall Street Journal) reports a concern that homeowners should be encouraged to use less power and generate more of what they use, but not to become energy producers. Homes producing electricity for other homes would be a bad thing?

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Business Process Choreographer is the process and human task engine in WebSphere® Process Server version 6. Business processes are defined using WS-BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) and are deployed as part of a J2EE application in a WebSphere Process Server. The Business Process Choreographer API offers access to entities (such as processes and tasks), stored in a runtime database. This document explains technical details for the query() and queryAll() API functions and provides best practices

Business Process Choreographer is the process and human task engine in WebSphere® Process Server version 6. Business processes are defined using WS-BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) and are deployed as part of a J2EE application in a WebSphere Process Server. The Business Process Choreographer API offers access to entities (such as processes and tasks), stored in a runtime database. This document explains technical details for the query() and queryAll() API functions and provides best practices

IBM is hosting a WebSphere SOA Connectivity Briefing in Toronto: Strategies for recovering your IT budget with IBM WebSphere MQ & SOA Connectivity Details: Sheraton Center Toronto Hotel November 25, 2008 8:00am - 12:00pm 123 Queen Street West Toronto Ontario M5H2M9 Phone: 416-947-4848 I’ll be there representing Perficient. My current plans are to get a DataPower box and hook up a little demo [...]