As a Java developer I have learned to appreciate Test Driven Development (TDD). It helps you to deliver quality software solutions and it gives you confidence when you make changes later on. Your test code will help you to make sure that no regression arises...
Problem When creating an installer with custom actions you might run into some security issues when executing it on a Windows Vista/7/2008 or later OS. This is because custom actions will be executed in the context of the user running the Windows Installer Service being the SYSTEM...
I ran into the following error when I tried to start a VM in Hyper-V Manager recently: To solve this issue I had to grant Full control to the folder containing all the VM’s files (Virtual Hard Disks, config,…) using the following command: icacls <VM directory> /grant...
Out of the box a webMethods Integration Server is shutdown via the Administrator screen. Following code snippet with allow you to gracefully shutdown a webMethods Integration Server through the usage of a custom developed java program. Java code snippet : import java.io.*; import com.wm.app.b2b.client.*; import com.wm.util.*; import com.wm.data.*; public class IntegrationServerShutdown { public...
This arctivle will describe how we can get some daily or weekly statistics from the database (MsSql or Oracle) of webMethods. Let us start with the Dynamic SQL Adapters. These are needed to run a query which will return us the statistics of a specific period. Input Output Query...
Me and my colleagues attended the Software AG (SAG) Partner Update event in Brussels a couple of weeks ago and learned about some interesting new tools and features that are coming up. In this blog post I’ll try to give a short overview of what...
With this question we came up with a concept to automatically detect if there is one of the target systems down and then suspend the triggers used for this connection. Once the system detects that this target system is back online, we will enable the triggers...
End of last year, Microsoft released a CTP of its Windows Azure Service Bus EAI and EDI solution. Cloud is hot these days and we see more and more cloud based integration solutions appear (SnapLogic, IBM Cast Iron, Dell Boomi,…) or traditional EAI and EDI vendors...
The problem Microsoft software (biztalk, wfetch, IE,…) all have a problem when performing a HTTPS TLSv1 handshake to Webmethods 8.0.1 running on a JVM 1.6 server. The problem manifests itself as an error on the client side (biztalk): “The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred...
On a recent project, a few stored procedures had to be exposed as web services. Actually, the stored procedures already took an XML message as input and returned an XML message as output. Initial plan was to write some .Net components to expose the stored procedures in the...