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24 Aug Installation of packages on Integration Server through custom developed java program
Out of the box a package can be installed on webMethods Integration Server via the Administrator’s Package Management GUI or using WmDeployer. Following code snippet with allow you to install packages on a webMethods Integration Server through the usage of a custom developed java program, leveraging...
14 Aug JXL parsing problems with apache POI generated xls
The problem We are using apache poi 3.8 to generate excels. Our excel generation is based on templates where we duplicate rows and columns as necessary to fit the data that is fed into them. In this particular usecase we add 23 rows and one column....
06 Aug using Spring Expression Language (SpEL) in a blueprint container
Spring Expression Language (SpEL) can be used to configure beans in a spring application context. For example the Spring-batch framework makes heavy use of it for what they call late binding of properties. To get a feel of what SpEL can do, some examples from...
31 Jul Skinning in JSF
Why Skinning? CSS is the tool for webdevelopers (or more likely designers) to customize sites without having to alter code. This allows for visual variability without the need to compile/test/deploy/… things. It also allows user-specific theming where the user can decide which theme looks best. However there...
24 Jul Resending Idocs Not Using Transaction WE19
Problem: When testing an interface in SAP PI I wanted to resend some idoc’s to PI. Resending a succesfully processed idoc in SAP PI is not possible from SXMB_MONI. You can use transaction WE19 from your backend system to do this, but I was not authorized to...
18 Jul Prince2 and integration projects
A couple of weeks ago I attended to the Prince2 practitioner course. Main driver to attend this training was to find out how it could help me in managing several simultanous B2B & EAI projects (called integration projects from here on). I want to share some reflections...
14 Jul WS-Security mustUnderstand in webmethods
WS-Security mustUnderstand Environment: webmethods 8.0.1 Problem A client has asked us to enable ws-security when using a particular webservice he exposes (webmethods policy “Consumer policy for Username”). However when we call his webservice with the appropriate message level authentication, we receive the following soap fault: Unprocessed ‘mustUnderstand’ header element:...
24 Jun Changing variables during runtime (BizTalk 2010)
For one of our customers I had to come up with a solution for the changing variables and different environment parameters. For the changing send/receive location we use Deployment Framework for BizTalk, but there are some parameters that cannot be changed during runtime. One of the proposals...
19 Jun Common error when connecting to IBM Websphere MQ from ASP.NET
Problem When connecting to an IBM WebSphere MQ queue using the WebSPhere MQ classes for .NET from within an ASP.NET application, you might run into the following error: General Exception: The type initializer for ‘IBM.WMQ.MQQueueManager’ threw an exception. When investigating the error a bit further we find the...