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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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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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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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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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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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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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This two-part series shows how IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale can be used
to improve performance and scalability when processing complex business
events. Part 1 introduces a traffic monitoring scenario and uses an Object
Grid on a stand-alone server to show how the scenario works. eXtreme Scale is
used to pass high-volume raw events to a prefiltering application, which
significantly reduces the processing load on WebSphere Business Events. Part 2 builds on
this scenario and uses a distributed ObjectGrid to partition the events based
on the Business Events context ID. This introduces high availability and
scalability, as events can be processed by multiple Business Events instances.

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Prepare for the IBM Certification Test 992, IBM WebSphere Business
Modeler Advanced V6.1, Business Analysis and Design. This tutorial covers
information about modeling business processes. We’ll review the various data
models supported by WebSphere Business Modeler. We’ll also discuss process
flow control logic and process layout. Finally, you’ll learn about sharing
processes using configuration management tools as well as import and export
functions.

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This article explains how the Relationship Service in IBM WebSphere Process
Server handles the creation and the deletion of the database schema objects that it
maintains for every relationship installed on WebSphere Process Server. It clarifies
why and when the system deletes objects. In this article, you use a convenient utility
to return the list of database object names for a given relationship or delete the objects from the database.

Prior knowledge of WebSphere Process Server Relationship Service is recommended.

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Learn how you can leverage the features of WebSphere Business Services
Fabric to build composite business applications that support dynamic binding
and orchestration. Part 4 of this series describes how to create metadata for
a business process based on the Fabric Business Service Model. This metadata
enables users to reuse and extend existing components, and enables dynamic
endpoint selection at run-time.

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This two-part series shows how IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale can be used
to improve performance and scalability when processing complex business
events. Part 1 introduces a traffic monitoring scenario and uses an Object
Grid on a stand-alone server to show how the scenario works. eXtreme Scale is
used to pass high-volume raw events to a prefiltering application, which
significantly reduces the processing load on WebSphere Business Events. Part 2 builds on
this scenario and uses a distributed ObjectGrid to partition the events based
on the Business Events context ID. This introduces high availability and
scalability, as events can be processed by multiple Business Events instances.

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This article explains how the Relationship Service in IBM WebSphere Process
Server handles the creation and the deletion of the database schema objects that it
maintains for every relationship installed on WebSphere Process Server. It clarifies
why and when the system deletes objects. In this article, you use a convenient utility
to return the list of database object names for a given relationship or delete the objects from the database.

Prior knowledge of WebSphere Process Server Relationship Service is recommended.

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Learn how you can leverage the features of WebSphere Business Services
Fabric to build composite business applications that support dynamic binding
and orchestration. Part 4 of this series describes how to create metadata for
a business process based on the Fabric Business Service Model. This metadata
enables users to reuse and extend existing components, and enables dynamic
endpoint selection at run-time.

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