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This update upgrades the Portal Test Environment in IBM® Rational® Application Developer and Rational Software Architect from versions 5.1.0.1, 5.1.0.2 or 5.1.0.3. to 5.1.0.4.

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Collecting data for problems with the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server versions, including V6.1, Spnego component. Gathering this MustGather information before calling IBM support will help you understand the problem and save time analyzing the data.

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Collecting data for problems with the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server versions, including V6.1, Spnego component. Gathering this MustGather information before calling IBM support will help you understand the problem and save time analyzing the data.

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Some meetings are just fun (I can’t always say that..sometimes I just want to run away and hide under my desk). But my meeting today with WaveMaker reminded me of the type of meetings I had in the .com days. I admit I was excited about what I heard. Now a disclaimer — I […]

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IBM Database tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 introduces a new set of
Web service-oriented features that expose the latest DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
pureXML functionality. The new release provides the means for a dramatic increase in
developer productivity. The new IBM Database Add-ins for Visual Studio 2005 offer a
number of features that make working with pureXML much easier. These features range
from the creation of Web services from annotated XML schemas, to XSR comparisons, to XSR XSLT support. This article provides a detailed
overview and usage guide of IBM XML tools for DB2 Version 9.5.

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This two-part series focuses on asset-based development for services in a
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). See how some of the primary IBM products from
the asset-based development and SOA development worlds come together to enable
effective reuse of assets in an SOA implementation. This article explains how you
can leverage SOA and asset life cycles and governance processes described in the IBM
Rational Method Composer plug-in products in parallel during an SOA implementation.
Part 2 shows how to manage and govern service assets and metadata effectively as a
service passes through the different stages in the SOA and asset life cycles, using
IBM tooling.

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This APAR is opened to publish a superceded ifix for PK36471.

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The following table provides a product comparison of the features and functions of the Architecture Management family of products (Rational® Software Modeler, Rational Systems Developer, Rational Application Developer, Rational Software Architect ) and Eclipse.

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I know that you expected me to write something fun and exciting about some new fangled service oriented architecture platform. I have a surprise — let’s call it a Thanksgiving surprise. I want to share a story with you. A few years ago I met an amazing woman, Wendy Puriefoy.
She is not a part […]

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Create a new user in Windows with shaqo’neil as username In WAS 60

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When you save the changes in the adminconsole, you can review the files that were “Updated”, “Added” or “Removed”. These

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How to start the process to request a Support Extension fee offering for an IBM WebSphere product.

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While the intention of both HTML V5 and XHTML V2 is to improve on the existing
versions, the approaches the developers chose to make those improvements is very different.
And with differing philosophies come distinct results. For the first time in many years,
the direction of upcoming browser versions is uncertain. Uncover the bigger picture behind the details of these two standards.

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In this five-part "Building a grid system using WS-Resource Transfer" series, we look at the use
of WS-Resource Transfer (WS-RT) in different areas of the grid environment –
from using it as a method for storing and recovering general information about
grid-to-grid monitoring and management, and security. We also examine how WS-RT can
be used for the distribution and division of work. In any grid, there is a huge
amount of metadata about the grid that needs
to be stored and distributed. Using WS-RT makes sharing the information, especially
the precise information required by different systems in the grid, significantly
easier. Here in Part 4, we look at both sides of the security session, both in terms
of using WS-RT as an aid to the authorization process and at combining WS-Security
with WS-RT for secure resource exchange.

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This is Fix Pack 2 for WebSphere® Service Registry and Repository V6.0.2

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This presentation by the Product Manager for IBM® Installation Manager (IM) version 1.x, which is used to install and update Rational® Software Delivery Platform (SDP) v7.0 desktop products, provides a useful overview of IM features and functions, and some of the rationale behind this implementation as contrasted by the Rational Product Updater (RPU) which was used with Software Development Platform v6.x.

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Just a small plug for my IBM colleagues - I’ve started an IBM internal-only WebSphere ESB blog here. I’ll still be contributing to this blog too - it’s a complement, not a replacement.

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Java API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC) supports the SOAP with Attachments (Sw/A) specification, while
Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) supports Sw/A along with the new Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism
(MTOM) specification. This fifth tip in this series compares these two attachment
models by examining samples of Web Services Description Languages (WSDLs) and mapped
Java interfaces.

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A quick note to point out a new Redbook:
Using WebSphere Message Broker as an ESB with WebSphere Process Server
I took a quick flick through the book this afternoon, and it looks like there are some very nice chapters which detail various scenarios (using WMB to aggregate responses from various backends; using WMB to bridge out […]

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The basic governance profile sample, available as SupportPac SA08 for WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V6.0.2, provides a well-defined service metadata model, as well as associated classification systems, life cycles, validations, UI and access control. The governance profile sample provides a good starting point that you can easily modified to meet your business requirements. In this article, you?ll learn about the governance profile sample and how you can change it to meet your business needs.

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Allows developers to interact with the WebSphere® Service Registry and Repository server to create, retrieve and update artefacts.

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Where possible, creating Web applications — including Ajax-based applications
— in a RESTful way avoids a large class of bugs. However, a
pitfall of REST (Representational State Transfer) is sending duplicate data across similar
XMLHttpRequests. This tip shows how the moderate use of session
cookies can maintain just enough server-side state to
significantly reduce client-server traffic, while still allowing
fallback to cookie-free operation.

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Organizations today face the challenge of two important enterprise
architecture requirements: the need for agility and the overhead of regulatory
governance. These requirements can be seen as mutually antagonistic–if business processes must be flexible, then governance of those processes may be difficult. Explore the notion of using manageability as a key enterprise architecture (EA) quality attribute to solve this problem.

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