The past 10 weeks we – Siebe Le Duc and Stijn Waegmans – did our internship at I8C to do research about Cloud Integration tools. We did research on the Iaas tools Babelway, Boomi and Cast Iron and the Paas tool Windows Azure. We concluded...
Garbage collection is often the most misunderstood feature of the Java Virtual Machine. It’s often advertised as moving the responsibility of memory management from the application developer to the Java Virtual Machine. This just isn’t the case. On the other hand, the developer doesn’t need...
Perhaps I picked the wrong presentations, or perhaps its because I already passed by most of the information booths the first day, but I found this second day of ProcessWorld a bit less interesting. It started nicely though with a very good presentation by Alexander Osterwalder...
As a proof of concept I had to test if TIBCO could perform authentication from its BusinessWorks suite to a Microsoft Dynamics CRM web service using ‘Integrated Windows Authentication’. TIBCO BusinessWorks has all the necessary tools for connectivity, transformation and orchestration of processes but unfortunately it...
I see conferences like ProcessWorld as a class-room training. You can get a lot of (high level) info from the whole software stack in just 2 days. Unfortunatly, like training, there are less interresting parts that you have to sit through. But you as a...
Microsoft has the vision to make a complete Service Bus available in the Azure cloud. One basic and essential component of an integration solution is Messaging. At TechEd 2011, a session was dedicated to this Messaging part. A screenshot from the presentation. Also interesting to...
Many integration solution are based on the Java Virtual Machine. Having a good understanding of the underlying machinery is essential for a well functioning integration platform. Tuning of the Java Virtual Machine is an essntial part of that. In a series of blog posting, we...
Today we ran into the following problem at a customer of ours: a couple of security groups had been setup in Microsoft Active Directory (AD), containing users from a trusted domain. Unfortunately, these users were not visible for our My webMethods Server (MWS) that is...
Today, we have been working on a migration from webMethods 7.1.2 to 8.0 at a customer of ours. Those who are familiar with webMethods probably know that the objects in a database for one of the webMethods components (Integration Server, Trading Networks, My webMethods Server)...
With Web Services a number of Message Exchange Patterns (MEP) are defined Request-response: the endpoint receives a message and sends a correlated message One-way: the endpoint receives a message Solicit-response: the endpoint sends a message and receives a correlated message Notification: the endpoint sends a...