RAD/RSA/Eclipse and CVSNT
A colleague in ISSW was having problems getting Rational Software Architect v6.0.0.1 to talk to CVSNT. Some people talk of me as "a CVS guru", although I'm not sure I'd go that far. There has been a...
View ArticleSOA and the IBM product stack
Tempted though I am to weigh in on the recent post by Rich Turner of Microsoft UK on the perceived differences in style between IBM and Microsoft, particularly in the consulting arena, Richard Brown...
View ArticleExtending WebSphere MQ Explorer
The new WebSphere MQ Explorer in WebSphere MQ version 6 is based on Eclipse 3.x, which makes it highly extensible. Dale Lane from IBM Hursley (author of at least two WMQ SupportPacs) has written a...
View ArticleJava, Eclipse, SWT – a blog
I just discovered that Joe Winchester, of Eclipse Visual Editor project fame, has a blog. I shall have to follow it.
View ArticleDatabase shootout
Following on from my posting about DB2 Express-C, I was very interested to read an article comparing Cloudscape/Derby with MySQL. Cloudscape is a slightly different product to both DB2 Express and...
View ArticleWAS CE 1.0.0.1 – a good looking update
I just installed version 1.0.0.1 of WebSphere Application Server Community Edition, which is based on Apache Geronimo v 1.0 The admin console for this release has had a significant revamp, with some...
View ArticleThe end of SWT? Mustang kicks back
One of the big annoyances I always had with Java was how bad rich client / desktop applications looked. They can be ugly, and even with Swing, the look and feel often never quite matched the native...
View ArticleMore news in brief
Random interesting things from around the web that I've been looking at this week: Doug Tidwell on Eclipse Using Eclipse for building UNIX applications Migrating from Outlook Express to Lotus Notes DB2...
View ArticleSoftware updates for the WebSphere family
Two important updates that are worth mentioning: WebSphere Message Broker version 6, fixpack 6.0.0.1. Check out the release notes. WebSphere Application Server Community Edition, version 1.0.1.0. The...
View ArticleNew Broker and MQ Administration tooling!
Very exciting news. SupportPac IS02 was released today. From the text description, you might be lulled into suspecting that this is just another Eclipse plugin for MQ Explorer. In fact, this is a very...
View ArticleComing up: new stuff for WMB
We just announced some goodness around WebSphere Message Broker. In particular, there’s a set of ease-of-use enhancements to the toolkit and some new functionality for Web Services. It all looks very...
View ArticleWSTC – all Jazzed up
For the final morning of the conference, I attended a talk on Jazz by Scott Rich. It was another talk with a live demo – very cool to see the technology actually running. Jazz is an extensible and...
View ArticleZero
When I got back from the WebSphere Services Technical Conference in April, I posted about the level of interest in simplified development, Web Oriented Architecture and Web 2.0. Yesterday, Project Zero...
View ArticleMQTT goes free – a personal Q&A
There has been a lot of coverage over the past couple of days of some exciting announcements that I’ve been involved with at work. I’ve spent the past three days at EclipseCon Europe 2011, which...
View ArticleEclipse Paho gets started…
Since the announcement of Eclipse Paho (an Open Source project under the Machine-to-Machine umbrella at Eclipse) there has been a fair amount of excitement in the MQTT community about the availability...
View ArticleM2M, IoT and MQTT at EclipseCon 2013
EclipseCon 2013 is here, and I’m in Boston with the great folks from around the community this week. There’s a LOT of content around the machine-to-machine space this year, and growing interest in how...
View ArticleM2M Community at EclipseCon
Day 2 of EclipseCon 2013 and we’ve already been seeing some strong interest in the M2M community and the kinds of projects we have been working on! The story so far There were two M2M events on day...
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