A few weeks ago Don Vines wrote a post about the new online WebSphere Migration Discovery Tool. This tool can estimate the work effort required to migrate applications from Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic, OC4J and GlassFish to WebSphere Application Server. The… Read More ›
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IBM Integration Bus vs. Oracle Service Bus installation and footprint
Oracle recently announced new version of the Oracle SOA Suite 12c, which includes updated version of the Oracle Service Bus (OSB). I tested this new version and compared it against IBM Integration Bus (IIB) v9. For those of you who… Read More ›
Failover demos of WebSphere MQ and Apache ActiveMQ
What are the primary reasons to use Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) in an application today? Why would you install, configure and manage this extra “layer” in your already complex architecture? Why not use HTTP, or sockets, or IIOP, or POP3,… Read More ›
IBM Integration Bus video resources – showcasing IIB uniqueness
I am a firm believer of the phrase “a picture speaks a thousand words”, especially when it comes to technology and software. However, an even more powerful way of showing the capabilities, features and characteristics of a software product is… Read More ›
Video: WebSphere MQ 7.5 and Apache ActiveMQ 5.9 performance (part 2)
In my earlier post titled “WebSphere MQ 7.5 and Apache ActiveMQ 5.9 performance comparison (part 1)” I shared installation, configuration and bash script sources for running performance benchmark for WebSphere MQ and ActiveMQ. To make it easier for you to use… Read More ›
Install WebSphere MQ v7.5 on Red Hat Linux in under 1 minute with one click
On the recent project of mine I had to install WebSphere MQ multiple times on multiple machines. In this post I would like to share script that I have built to automate the entire WMQ installation process on a freshly… Read More ›
WebSphere Liberty Profile 8.5.5 demo
Back in June 2013 IBM has shipped an update to the WebSphere Application Server and along with it new Liberty Profile. I am very impressed with the small footprint of the product and the incredible speed of its startup and… Read More ›