Afkham Azeez: You can check-out any time you like, But you can never leave!
Today there was a farewell party for Deepal, Ruchith, Saminda, Sanka, Sandakith, Dinesh, Diluka, Suran& Chandima. Most of them are leaving for grad school to pursue masters degrees & doctoral...
View ArticleDeepal Jayasinghe: Scripting support with Axis2
As we all know Apache Axis2 is a Java based Web service framework. In addition to that Axis2 is becoming as the de facto Java based Web service framework. Which is obvious when we look at the number of...
View ArticleNandana Mihindukulasooriya: OpenID, Phishing & PAPE, Are we there yet ?
When I get to know how OpenID works, I was really impressed with the idea. It is pretty simple and straight forward compared to WS – Sec* stuff that I am messing up with. And it seems OpenID is...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Life after Bug Tracking Systems
Avery Pennarun: The git developers don’t track bugs. If you find a bug, you can write about it on the mailing list. You might get flamed. And then probably someone will ask you to fix it yourself and...
View ArticleSanjiva Weerawarana: Connectivity technology confluence: GSM, 3G, Wifi, IP
Sometime ago I bought a Blackberry Curve 8320 from T-Mobile in the US. I needed to have a US phone number with me but at the same time I hate to pay the $3-4/minute roaming rates that T-Mobile (and...
View ArticleCharitha Kankanamge: How to use Axis2 codegen ANT task
Apache Axis2 code generator tool provides a very useful custom ANT task. All of the command line code generation options are available with the ANT task as well.Lets see how a simple client side code...
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Eran Chinthaka: Places to visit in Washington State - Mt St Helens
Location : Johnston Ridge Observatory, At the end of Spirit Lake Memorial Highway, WADirections : Google Maps, About 3 hrs from Bellevue, WAFor GPS : 46.276258,-122.216721Link :...
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Ajith Ranabahu: My first car in US !
After about 2 years living in US I got my first car here (I've had cars before but this is my first in US). Its a Honda Accord and the pictures will tell the story :) Bunch of thanks goes to Meena and...
View ArticleNandana Mihindukulasooriya: Internet & Privacy : Can a plain old web site...
Do we have any privacy on Internet? For example, when I am searching something on Google or reading emails on my gmail account, obviously Google reads them too. Otherwise how can Google put...
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Afkham Azeez: The first ever product release from WSO2!
A picture with a lot of historical value... This picture was taken soon after the very first product release from WSO2; WSO2 Tungsten 1.0-alpha (now known as WSO2 WSAS). This was the very first team...
View ArticleApache Synapse: Synapse artifacts are OSGi compliant
Synapse artifact jar files are now OSGi compliant...!!This means that you can now use the synapse artifact jar files within an OSGi container, but Synapse standalone server is not yet an OSGi...
View ArticleDeepal Jayasinghe: WSO2 Web Services Framework for Perl 1.1 Released
WSO2 Web Services Framework for PHP (WSO2 WSF/Perl), is an open source,enterprise grade, Perl extension for providing and consuming WebServices in Perl. WSO2 WSF/Perl is a complete solution for...
View ArticleSanjiva Weerawarana: Microsoft didn't invent SOAP!
Wow! Here I've been thinking for nearly the last 10 years that Microsoft invented SOAP. Duh.Not only that, SOAP, it turns out, was not invented in 1999. It was actually first invented in 1953. (I'm of...
View ArticleKeith Chapman: WSO2 Mashup Server 1.5 released
Its been a couple of busy weeks and the effort is worth it. We've been busy working on the Mashup Server 1.5 release which has a bunch of new features.The following are some of the new features in this...
View ArticleDeepal Jayasinghe: Beauty and power of JavaScript – WSO2 Mashup server
WSO2 Mashup server is an Web services application server which has tuned to deploy JavaScripts as web services. Which is also build on WSO2 WSAS (which is in fact built on Apache Axis2). In addition to...
View ArticleDan Diephouse: New Mule Performance Benchmark: Yup, we come out on top.
WSO2 has felt the need over the past few months to make many false claims about Mule’s performance. For instance:Mule CE 2.0.1 couldn’t handle the cases where we used a concurrency level of 80; while...
View ArticleDeepal Jayasinghe: Feel the taste of Rules with Axis2 – Rule Services
As I always tell , Axis2 architecture is so flexible , so you can do almost anything with Axis2. We have a number of extension for Axis2, such as Data base extension JavaScript extension JRuby...
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Tom Jordahl: AIR Data Synchronization via LiveCycle Data Services ES 2.6
This is a nice article on the offline sync feature of LiveCycle Data Services 2.6 - AIR Data Synchronization via LiveCycle Data Services ES 2.6. It was written by John C. Bland II.I worked on this...
View ArticleEran Chinthaka: What is eScience ?
(This will be helpful for me to explain my friends what I am working on currently ;) )Disclaimer : this will be a basic introduction and might not be sophisticated enough to Achilles in the field. In...
View ArticleRajith Attapattu: 5 reasons why Distributed Systems are hard to program
Here are 5 reasons why I found distributed system are hard to program. This is not some sort of thorough analysis, but merely my observations in dealing with such systems. For completeness, here is the...
View ArticleSanjiva Weerawarana: Response to "Microsoft at OSCON"
Zack Urlocker has written a blog on his OpenSource blog at InfoWorld about Microsoft's participation at OSCON. Please read that first.I started writing this as a comment on his blog but it was getting...
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Steve Loughran: Tour de France -Galibier and Alpe d'Huez
For the past few years, I've found that even though HDD Video Recorders let you build up a backlog of Tour de France coverage you can watch later, by the time you get round to it news gets out. Not...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Ruby 1.9: What to Expect
slides for OSCON 2008 presentationA number of the members of the audience were more informed on the subject than I was (excellent!).There was a vigorous discussion on the slide which talked about...
View ArticleSanjiva Weerawarana: How to handle SOA vendor consolidation
Paul Krill over at InfoWorld has written a great story on SOA vendor consolidation. He notes how even the mighty IBM has to deal with WSO2 because of open standards based interoperability that is...
View ArticleSanjiva Weerawarana: Its over the hump Tim .. give it a rest
Sigh. Tim Bray didn't get the memo: REST is now beyond the peak of the hype curve and is sliding down. Waay down.Just because I can't resist: so Tim, REST does need tools now?? Funny how the world...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Open Web Foundation
Eran Hammer-Lahav: This morning at OSCON, David Recordon announced the creation of the Open Web Foundation. The Open Web Foundation is an attempt to create a home for community-driven specifications....
View ArticleAjith Ranabahu: Microsoft and opensource
After reading the recent post from Sanjiva I was tempted to write this bit down. I've been debating similar points with my friends, specially Karthik who has become an avid Mac/OS-X fan over the last...
View ArticleSam Ruby: New ASF Platinum Sponsor
Sam Ramji: Microsoft is becoming a sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). This sponsorship will enable the ASF to pay administrators and other support staff so that ASF developers can focus...
View ArticlePaul Fremantle: Microsoft sponsors Apache
Yep. I know its hard to believe! But then who would have believed Microsoft would have an Open Source vendor at a TechEd keynote.Ted asks"what it will be like when the first MS project shows up at the...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: How to write untestable code
Nice list on the google testing blog on how to write 3v1l untestable code; a list of don'ts, most of which I agree with. The one I don't is the no-utility-class rule, which doesn't hold in a framework...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: Pluggable Hadoop
Tom White looks at how people are looking at extending Hadoop, including my little plan for a consistent lifecycle for hadoop services. Although it will make subclassing easier, my real goal there is...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Updated Decimal Implementation
10 I’ve added decimal literals and support for both unary and binary operators on top of SpiderMonkey. My approach is that when all arguments are Decimal, the results are Decimal; otherwise the...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: Like a datacentre, only more than one of them.
Earlier this month, at the Apache-UK academia workshop, I was pushing Hadoop as something that mattered. In a not entirely unrelated event, HP, Yahoo! and Intel have just announced a Cloud Computing...
View ArticleNandana Mihindukulasooriya: Why can't we ship Apache Rampart as a standalone...
This questions pops up time to time in the mailing lits, so thought of digging to the question and see why really it is not possible. I totally agree that it would really handy if we can ship Rampart...
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Tom Jordahl: BlazeDS Documentation Update
The documentation team has posted an update of the BlazeDS documentation that includes all of the relevant content from the new LCDS 2.6 Developers Guide.By the way, here is a gateway page to all of...
View ArticlePaul Fremantle: Why interop?
This excellent article - "Can AMQP break IBM's MOM Monopoly?" - explains in clear terms the difference between API standardization (JMS) and wire-level interop standardization (AMQP).This is a...
View ArticleKeith Chapman: Benefits of an Open Source SOA solution
Stumbled upon an interesting article on the benefits of an Open Source SOA solution, and I cant agree more with it. It lists 5 advantages of using Open Source to leverage SOA needs. They are,Try before...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Open Standards
Simon Phipps: Field-of-use restrictions have no place in open source.+1
View ArticleAfkham Azeez: Handling java.lang.InterruptedException
What do most Java developers do when they are faced with handling an InterruptedException? This should look very familiar;try{ // Do something} catch (InterruptedException ignored){...
View ArticleCharitha Kankanamge: Web application testing in Ruby(Watir) - 2 minutes guide
Watir (pronounced as Water) is a free open source tool which can be used to automate web applications. It is an extension of Ruby programming language. Unlike most of the other testing tools it gains...
View ArticleCharitha Kankanamge: How to validate a WSDL using Eclipse
When you create a wsdl file from scratch or use an already designed one, you must make sure it is valid. In other words it should; consist of well-formed XML (All tags should be closed and nested...
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Charitha Kankanamge: Apache JMeter book is published
There are no much books available on test automation and tools. In order to fill the void in the software testing bibliography, Emily H. Halili decided to put together the basic concepts of test...
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Charitha Kankanamge: How to deploy Apache Axis2 on WebLogic 10
I have already discussed the steps to deploy Apache Axis2 on IBM WebSphere, JBoss and Resin application servers. In this post, I'm going to explain the procedure to deploy Axis2 on BEA Weblogic 10...
View ArticleApache Tuscany: Apache Tuscany SCA Java 1.3 released
Today Apache Tuscany made a 1.3 release of the SCA Java runtime. This release is special as its the first SCA release since Tuscany graduated from the Incubator to be an Apache top level project. See...
View ArticleDavanum Srinivas: Too much information - Web Services Feature Pack for...
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Charitha Kankanamge: How to use tcpmon inside Eclipse
Apache TCPMon is an utility that allows the messages to be viewed and resent. It is very much useful as a debug tool. If you don't know much about this tool, you can find more information here , here...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: My other computer is a different datacentre
Fitz explains the story behind the my other computer is a datacenter sticker. I have one of these on my laptop, with all the google bits cut off. This sticker will appear in our talk at the Hadoop UK...
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Tom Jordahl: New Java AMF Client feature in BlazeDS
You may not have noticed, (what, you aren't subscribed to the BlazeDS commits forum?) but a few weeks ago Mete committed an enhancement that adds a Java AMF client API to the flex-messaging-core.jar...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Minimalist Markup, now text/html Compatible
Bug 311366 is resolved in Firefox 3.0.1. It may, in fact, have been fixed earlier; but my initial testing was flawed. Thanks go out to Anne van Kesteren and James Graham for spotting the problem that...
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