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How would your business like a simple to install appliance that provides e-mail and shares and manages documents?

Lotus Foundations Start is just that. It gives you the capabilities of a complex IT system without the complexity of having to install and manage it. It’s an appliance (like DataPower)–just plug it into a network, configure it, and start using it. You can read more about it in IBM’s New Appliance Eases IT Headaches as Small Business Server Alternative.

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The potential benefits of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in terms
of loose coupling and reuse, leading to business agility, have been well
publicised for some time. But for SOA to provide a truly flexible platform for
business process management (BPM), you need to introduce an element of
abstraction into your service invocations. This article shows you how to use
XML extensions and dynamic service invocation techniques to provide a double
whammy of polymorphism, creating truly flexible service invocations while
simplifying business processes.

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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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So, who could argue that we need a smarter planet. I certainly couldn’t. I am at an IBM software analyst meeting. I have been attending this meeting for many years. The focus, as you might imagine is on the software strategy. But  there was something this time that I think is worth talking about.  Rather […]

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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)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 […]

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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 […]

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A few weeks ago, I discussed an issue where a profile could no longer be created on WebSphere Application Server 6.1.0.19. It boiled down to an issue with the Java security policy files and thier ‘restricted’ and ‘unrestricted’ flavours. At the time, I thought that WebSphere actually required the unrestricted versions.
To test my theory I […]

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Canada is installing a smarter air-traffic control system around Hudson Bay.

“New System Makes Air-Traffic Control Cheaper and Safer” (Wall Street Journal) reports:

Nav Canada, the privatized provider of air-traffic-control service in Canada, has installed five ADS-B ground-station receivers around Hudson Bay, a vast, remote expanse of northern Canada that is busy with jet traffic but has no radar coverage. The system will go into daily use in January after extensive testing and certification.

As I discussed in GPS for Air Traffic Control, ADS-B is the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast system, which tracks airplanes’ positions using satellite rather than radar. When widely deployed by airports and used by airlines, ADS-B “has the potential to save fuel, shave time off long flights and enhance safety.”

It occurs to me that ADS-B is a good example of the sorts of Technology for a Smarter Planet (More Smarter Planet Info) that IBM has started talking about. It’s a way to take something we already do and need and use technology to make it much more efficient such that it saves energy and causes less harm to the environment.

(Separately, the Wall Street Journal also reports that Metallica: Back on Track. I guess they cover a wide range of news topics!)

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