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Transforming your supply chain with IBM Supply Chain Process Modeler, Part 2

DeveloperWorks — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

The IBM Supply Chain Process Modeler is a consulting and decision supporting solution that incorporates industry standards, best practices, and advanced analytics and optimization (A & O) technologies in an integrated workbench to support process-centric supply chain transformation. In Part 2, you'll learn how to use process reference models to support supply chain transformation projects.

Using Microsoft .NET in WebSphere Message Broker V8: Part 3: Integrating with Microsoft Excel

DeveloperWorks — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

This series of four tutorials demonstrates the new support for Microsoft .NET in WebSphere Message Broker V8. Part 3 describes integration with Microsoft Excel. Readers should be familiar with either Microsoft .NET or WebSphere Message Broker but need not be familiar with both.

Scalable Vector Graphics in HTML5

DeveloperWorks — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) are part of the vector family of graphics. They have several benefits over their raster counterparts: JPEG, GIF, and PNG. In this article, explore the basic concepts and usage of SVG graphics in HTML5. Learn about drawing, filters, gradients, text, and adding SVG XML to web pages.

Build integrated solutions for XML transformations with WebSphere Transformation Extender, Part 1: Transform legacy data into XML

DeveloperWorks — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

The XML format is a common standard for document and message exchange. Learn how to use WebSphere Transformation Extender to easily migrate legacy data to XML. WebSphere Transformation Extender separates data transformation logic and business flow logic, which can save on maintenance costs. Walk through a scenario that includes examples and source code. Create a WebSphere Transformation Extender map to retrieve legacy data from a database and transform it to an XML file.

Build integrated solutions for XML transformations with WebSphere Transformation Extender, Part 1: Transform legacy data into XML

DeveloperWorks — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

Comment lines: Choosing the right web content management delivery solution

DeveloperWorks — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

The IBM Web Content Manager software offers different solutions for delivering web content to your users . This article explains all the solutions available and why you would chose each.

Comment lines: Choosing the right web content management delivery solution

DeveloperWorks — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

The IBM Web Content Manager software offers different solutions for delivering web content to your users . This article explains all the solutions available and why you would chose each.

WebSphere proxy server routing capabilities in a secured environment

DeveloperWorks — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

This article discusses the various routing capabilities of the WebSphere proxy server, which is a feature of IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment. Multiple configuration scenarios are presented, along with background information, setup instructions and tips to help you achieve success routing content using proxy server features in a secured environment.

Using the service integration bus link in WebSphere Application Server to route messages from a local queue to a remote queue

DeveloperWorks — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

IBM WebSphere Application Server includes a variety of JMS providers that can be used by applications for asynchronous communication. By default, WebSphere Application Server uses a service integration bus (SI bus) for asynchronous communication. This article explains the communication between messaging engines running on different instances of WebSphere Application Server that will enable you to route a message from a local queue to a remote queue using the SI bus.

Capturing and analyzing interface characteristics, Part 2: Reference guide to integration characteristics

DeveloperWorks — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

Part 1 of this two-part article discussed the definition of integration characteristics and how they are best used to reduce risk and improve the efficiency of design for the integration aspects of a solution. Part 2 provides detailed reference information about the integration characteristics themselves to ensure a clear and common understanding of the meaning, importance, and use of each characteristic.

Using Jython servlets with WebSphere Application Server for more than system administration

DeveloperWorks — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

It is common for developers to use Jython scripting in IBM WebSphere Application Server to perform system management tasks, but with some simple additions, it is easy to add Jython processing to supplement your servlet and JSP application programming. This article describes what you need to do to incorporate Jython servlets into your projects for even greater flexibility.

WebSphere proxy server routing capabilities in a secured environment

DeveloperWorks — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

Using Microsoft .NET in WebSphere Message Broker V8: Part 2: Integrating with Microsoft Word

DeveloperWorks — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

This series of four tutorials demonstrates the new support for Microsoft .NET in WebSphere Message Broker V8. Part 2 describes integration with Microsoft Word. Readers should be familiar with either Microsoft .NET or WebSphere Message Broker but need not be familiar with both.

Measure UI performance on the IBM Cloud

DeveloperWorks — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

The author debuts a framework for IBM SmartCloud Enterprise that lets you establish an automated, UI performance-measuring system that engages Fiddler, a web debugging proxy. This article explains the framework, Fiddler, the performance metrics that are captured by the system, and how they are important to UI performance measurement.

Create custom installation repositories for WebSphere Application Server with the IBM Packaging Utility

DeveloperWorks — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

IBM WebSphere Application Server V8 uses the IBM Installation Manager for product installation and lifecycle management. IBM Installation Manager accesses source repositories that contain the content for a software product installation. Repositories are available on product media, in IBM-hosted web-based repositories, and from Passport Advantage for download. This article describes a free, no-cost companion tool called IBM Packaging Utility that can help you create and customize enterprise repositories that contain the right combination of products and maintenance levels needed for all aspects of your business.

Associating WebSphere Lombardi V7.2 attributes with users defined in OpenLDAP and routing tasks

DeveloperWorks — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

This article demonstrates a design pattern using WebSphere Lombardi attributes along with users defined in an OpenLDAP server for activities such as decision making or routing. If user attributes (such as language) are defined in an LDAP server and used for routine activities, such as routing in WebSphere Lombardi, there is some cost involved in querying the attributes using a JNDI API from an LDAP server. The recommended design pattern can help improve performance and can be adopted without using the User Synchronization option in WebSphere Lombardi.

Measure UI performance on IBM SmartCloud Enterprise

DeveloperWorks — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

The IBM advantage for SOA reference architecture standards

IBM — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

This article describes how the SOA reference architecture has been developed and used by IBM to help customers increase business flexibility as well as IT flexibility. The SOA RA reference architecture being used to help organizations achieve advanced levels of business agility and IT flexibility through service integration that are specifically in line with their unique SOA business objectives. IBM is also using an SOA reference architecture along with the Cloud reference architecture to help organizations define their cloud solutions.

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) standards

IBM — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been a transformational technology used by enterprises to drive business advantages including agility, reduced cost, improved time to market and competitive advantage. This article highlights how standards are important for SOA solutions enhancing customer results and enabling interoperability.

USB-Like Universal Ports Type for Enterprise Service Bus, Part 3: Benefits of Universal Ports

IBM — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

In the first installment, part1 of this series, you learned about the basic functionalities of the currently available Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs). In part 1, you also learned about some of the difficulties in the use of the currently available ESBs. In the second installment, Part 2 of this series, you learned about the new concept of the Universal Ports type for ESB and how to implement Universal Ports. Universal Ports provide solution to the many of the problems that the current users of the ESBs experience. A Universal Port works analogous to the USB port of a computer, which is to connect devices of varied kind to connect to the computer. In a similar manner a Universal Port can be used to connect any application to the ESB and, indirectly, to the other applications. These applications may employ disparate forms of services to expose some or all of their functionality and still use a single port type. In this installment, part 3 of this series you will learn about the many benefits of Universal Ports.

Modeling your business processes with IBM WebSphere Lombardi Edition, Part 5: Customize the user experience with Coaches

DeveloperWorks — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

In Part 5 of this series, you'll learn how to use the advanced Coach features of WebSphere Lombardi Edition V7.1, you'll learn about some Coach customization features, including dynamic data binding, customizing the display of Coach pages, and creating custom HTML controls. You'll also learn about the runtime rendering of Coaches.

Modeling your business processes with IBM WebSphere Lombardi Edition, Part 6: Using KPIs and reports for monitoring and performance analysis

DeveloperWorks — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

In the final part of this series, you'll learn how to use key performance indicators (KPIs) and reports to do monitoring and performance analysis with WebSphere Lombardi Edition.

Passing data objects between CICS Java environments: Part 2: Techniques for passing Java data objects

DeveloperWorks — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

Use the jQuery Mobile API for fine-grained custom control

DeveloperWorks — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

The jQuery Mobile framework is a quick and easy way to create mobile websites. However, you might not know that the framework has a decent API that you can use to extend the basic functionality. This article provides an overview of some of the most useful features in the API and gives you working code examples throughout.

Passing data objects between CICS Java environments: Part 1: CICS Java environments

DeveloperWorks — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

Java is becoming a popular programming language for CICS applications. CICS provides multiple Java environments, each with its own strengths, so passing data objects between the different CICS Java environments is an important topic. This article series gives you the details. Part 1 describes the CICS Java environments, the advantages of each one, and the different ways to pass data between them. Part 2 uses an example Java class to show you how to pass Java data objects between applications running in a CICS-pooled JVM, an Axis2-based JVM, a CICS Dynamic Scripting environment, and a CICS OSGi-based JVM. Part 3 shows you how to pass Java data objects from a CICS Transaction Gateway Java client program to a CICS-pooled JVM or CICS OSGi-based JVM.

Passing data objects between CICS Java environments: Part 1: CICS Java environments

DeveloperWorks — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

Publishing XML data in HTML and PDF using a single XSLT stylesheet

DeveloperWorks — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

Learn how to publish XML documents in HTML and PDF using the css2xslfo utility.

Predicting 2012: What’s old is new again – or is it?

IBM — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:45:25 +0000

Maybe I have been around the technology market too long but it appears to me that there is nothing new under the sun. The foundational technologies that are the rage today all have their roots in technology that has been around for decades. That is actually a good thing. Simply put, a unique technology concept often will not be commercially viable for at least a decade. So, as I look into 2012, it is clear to me that we are at a tipping point where technologies that have been incubating for many years are customer requirements. Some, like cloud computing are just emerging from the early adopter phase. Others like big data are still in early hype mode. It will be an interesting year. Here are some of my predictions for 2012.

Cloud computing is the new Internet. Only ten years ago companies talked about having an Internet strategy – today Internet is simply part of the fabric of organizations. Likewise, I am predicting that within 10 years we won’t hear customers talk about their cloud strategy — it will simply be the way business is done.
Analytics is one of the most important trends – being able to anticipate what will happen next – whether it is a retailer trying to determine what products will be hot or a business trying to anticipate where a problem will emerge.
The best new ideas are old ideas re-envisioned. The greatest and hottest companies will be based on taking existing ideas and products and revamping them with newer technologies and inventive go to market initiatives.
Platform as a Service (PaaS) is the next hot thing in cloud this coming year. This market will have a rocky evolution since existing Infrastructure as a Service vendors and Software as a Service vendors will all create their version of PaaS tied to their existing offerings. Needless to say, this will confuse customers.
Service Management becomes the defining differentiator for all types of cloud service providers. Especially as the hybrid cloud becomes the norm, providers will have to provide a required level of privacy, security, and governance depending on the customer need. I expect to see a flood of cloud service management products.
While 2011 was the year of innovation, 2012 will be the year of the customer experience. Apple’s success and huge market cap can be, at least in part, attributed to its ability to delight customer with well-executed and well-designed products. The best new products do not simply give customers what they said they wanted, but anticipate what they didn’t know they wanted until it becomes available.
The number of vendors focused on cloud security, governance, and compliance will expand dramatically. The successful companies will focus on protecting all end points – including mobile.
Big data will be the most important silver bullet of 2012. It will indeed be overhyped to the point where every aspect of computing will be tagged as a part of the big data ecosystem. With that said, it is one of the most important trends because it will provide a set of techniques to enable companies to gain knowledge and insight in new ways from the huge volumes of unstructured data. The successful companies are those that create solutions focused on solving specific industry problems. One size does not fit all.
Many copycat companies will tank. Companies like Groupon and Zynga simply do not have the depth of technology or differentiation to have sustainability. But that will not stop hundreds or perhaps thousands of copycat companies with equally weak value propositions from setting up shop.
10. It is probably redundant to say that this will be the year of the mobile app. In fast the same could be said for 2011. But there is a subtle difference. This year will see sophisticated developers focusing on creating applications that can easily move across tablets, laptops, and phones. The successful companies will make it easy to synchronize data across these devices as well as integrating with related applications. A healthy ecosystem will make the difference between success and failure.

Using the new Applications and Libraries feature in WebSphere Message Broker V8

DeveloperWorks — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:00:00 +0000

Applications and Libraries are new concepts introduced in WebSphere Message Broker V8 to make it easier for both developers and administrators to organize the artifacts that make up a WebSphere Message Broker solution. This article describes Applications and Libraries, and shows you how they can improve your existing development and deployment workflows, and how to convert existing solutions to use them.

Enforcing SOA message security policy with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository and WebSphere DataPower

IBM — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:00:00 +0000

This tutorial presents the reader with a concrete method for using a central repository in this example WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR) to implement business policies governing SOA message flows, enforced by the WebSphere DataPower SOA appliances. The necessary configuraton steps for both the WSRR and the WebSphere DataPower appliance are detailed.

Creating virtual servers through VMControl REST APIs

IBM — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:00:00 +0000

Creating logical partitions on IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC) can often be a time consuming task and of course requires a certain level of technical skills on PowerVM technology. By using remote command execution on HMC and VMControl Representation State Transfer (REST) web services calls, you will be able to programmatically create logical partitions assigning virtual resources enabling a simplified virtualization management.

Configuring secured Web service calls from WebSphere Process Server V7 to a non-WebSphere server via SSL

IBM — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:00:00 +0000

This tutorial provides steps to configure an SSL for a Web service call from WebSphere Process Server to a non-WebSphere Web service. It covers generating client and sample server keys, importing certificates, configuring the SOAP UI for SSL, mocking up the Web service, and testing the SSL.

Enforcing SOA message security policy with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository and WebSphere DataPower

DeveloperWorks — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:00:00 +0000

Configuring secured Web service calls from WebSphere Process Server V7 to a non-WebSphere server via SSL

DeveloperWorks — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:00:00 +0000

Using Microsoft .NET in WebSphere Message Broker V8: Part 1: Using the .NETCompute node sample

DeveloperWorks — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:00:00 +0000

This series of four tutorials demonstrates the new support for Microsoft .NET in WebSphere Message Broker V8. Part 1 shows you how to use the .NETCompute node to filter, modify, and create messages, and provides a sample scenario along with explanatory C# code snippets. Readers should be familiar with either Microsoft .NET or WebSphere Message Broker but need not be familiar with both.

Integrating WebSphere Extreme Scale and WebSphere Application Server for Caching HTTP Sessions

DeveloperWorks — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:00:00 +0000

WebSphere eXtreme scale is distributed high-speed caching solution. Integrating it with WebSphere Application Server enables the enterprise applications hosted to use the capability of distributed caching. This article describes managing HTTP Sessions for enterprise applications using eXtreme Scale's caching abilities.

Rational Host Access Transformation Services V8, Part 4: Installing RAD V8 with WAS V8 and adding them to the HATS test environment

DeveloperWorks — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:00:00 +0000

Learn how to install IBM Rational Application Developer V8 and IBM Websphere Application Server V8, then add them to the HATS test environment.

BPM Voices: How IT can discuss business agility with the business