WebServices Integration Approaches in mind December 30, 2007

1) Integration Strategy 1: Sun Micro System’s proposed approach

 

Tutorials:

https://open-esb.dev.java.net/

Examples: Are bundled as a part of the Netbeans 6.0 IDE after successful installation of
OpenESB.

Reference Implementation:
Bundled with examples.

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2) Integration Strategy 2: Eclipse Based integration approach

 

Tutorials:

BPEL with Active BPEL:

http://www.active-endpoints.com/open-source-tutorial.htm

Integration with CELTIX:

http://celtix.objectweb.org/demos/index.html#bpel

Reference Implementation:
Bundled with examples including loan approval case study.

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3) Integration Strategy 3: Oracle Suite

Complete integration with the ORACLE Suite

Most definitely one of the most comprehensive products in the markets all the offerings from one provider. Cool stuff but for academic eval I may not go in for it. Comes with a complete implementation.

URL: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/soa/index.html

 

WebServices Learning Path-01 December 30, 2007

WebServices - Learning it can be a little tricky especially with the host of all that implementations that are available from IBM, Sun, Apache….the list is huge. It’s difficult but hey it’s not like it can’t be learned that the challenge.

Proper docs and some much needed abstraction can go a long way.

I started out for this MS project of mine but that’s like reached a dead end, I’m reviving it.

First started out with the IDEs:

IntelliJ Idea well to be frank I ain’t got no idea how to start WS on this one.

Netbeans is cool. Saw some demos.

WebServices on Net Beans 5.5 Screen casts from Arun Gupta.
Referred sample code Bundled with NetBeans 5.5.

Links:

SCREENCASTS

http://download.java.net/javaee5/screencasts/hello-simple-glassfish/
https://wsit.dev.java.net/screencasts.html

WebServices Tutorials on NetBeans

http://www.netbeans.org/kb/trails/web.html

Sun’s implementation of web Services with JAX-WS rocks and the tooling is neat.

 

JDeveloper’s neat but to be frank I am not that comfortable with it like the way i’m on eclipse or NetBeans. But their documentation and OTN that their Dev Network is real neat. Guess I’ll check it out too.

My personal favorite and choice.To be frank I was all that impressed with the quality of webservices articles that were available at the community site. Guess I’ll wire up a couple of those. But the IBM DeveloperWorks rocks great collection of articles. Checkout the links for more.

Building Database Enabled Auction Service Site – Developer works
Deploying Web services on Europa using IBM Developerworks. Article.
This is nice article to start of with all you need is Apache tomcat and Eclipse with WTP.
https://www6.software.ibm.com/developerworks/education/os-eclipse-soatp/index.htm

 

 

& Rational Application developer are in a different league all together. But man I can’t afford em..

List of Reference Books:

Axis book: Developing Web Services with Apache Axis http://agileskills2.org/DWSAA/

Luck !!!! December 30, 2007

I don’t remember when really guess it was just after school, I think my uncle took me to this workshop he wanted to attend. Told me the speaker was an expert, lectures are very popular.

I’ll give u a clue the add says don’t come late to the session, yup I’m talking about Aporesh Acharya. The session was simply scintillating, I was very impressed. Should have gone ahead and enrolled for the session but hey I was a school kid Duke Nukem appealed more to me. There was a key note if I can call it that, about the session the speaker said the gist of the session the learing process itself really was luck. He went on to give a definition of luck :

” Luck is the meeting point of your alertness and any opportunity passing by .. “

That I still remember.

Priorities – Org Def December 30, 2007

When I started out initially I attended this workshop PDC as it was called in Haddows club, Nungambakkam chennai.

Interesting session really, had a lot of fun the batch chilled out took it easy had a real time. It was for a duration of 3 days started on the 14th and went on till the 17th December 2004 won’t forget it 4 sure.

A couple of guys made the presentation on work prioritization and stuff like that, really useful stuff to be productive @ work.

Here’s what they came up with:

Interestingly i followed it for a few months only to realize that hey I’m the odd one out. So hey when in Rome be a Roman, so I kinda of changed my style according to the workplace.

Here I am today deleting my old files when I came across this. Well if can’t store em blog em..

Guess I’ll have to come up with a new one for this.

eXTERNAL Tools Usage with Eclipse December 19, 2007

Using the External Tools feature in Eclipse

Eclipse is one of the best things to happen to the world of Java development. An open source community development project it may be…but planned well it is….
The code is strong in this one…..

All right that’s enough of me tryin to speak like Yoda.

So let’s talk about some hidden gems in eclipse. Here’s something most of developers may not use effectively. The external tools set of power tools that eclipse.
If I were to describe it 2 words Simbhu style “Chanceless !! Super !!”

Anyway through the course of my learning I have used it following configurations:

There are times when most of us developers would have used the command prompt in tandem with eclipse.
The legendry command prompt

This is my personal favorite; I mean there’s never been a time when I could do without this one. So the Console view we have in eclipse it logs at the data. So I was wondering if it’s possible to have the command prompt running from the Eclipse itself. Turns out that it can be done and it’s easier than what I would have expected.

So here how we do it:
Open the External Tools window:

In the location just specify the windows executable that needs to be run.
Let give a suitable name for the Lauch configuration like:
Command Prompt Launch

All right once this is done the launch target can be viewed by clicking
Run  External Tools

This illustration is an indication of the same.
So when we click on 2 that’s Command Prompt Launch
Tadaaa!!!

A sweet command prompt just for me and that too within eclipse, wow how cool is that.

So that cool the command prompt shell gets embedded in the SWT window or view or whatever but what about the AWT or Swing stuff.

I tried to add the PointBase DataBase UI which is a classic Swing/AWT program.
So went ahead with the standard configuration and ran the external target.
Alright opens up the UI as a standard Java Application.

Europa – Let’s see what you got December 9, 2007

This week this has tech intensified for me. Oh yeah !! I’m digging it alright but hey it’s taking a toll on MBA prep..Ok we’ll balance it next week.

In the process of installing the Eclipse Callisto build on my computer. Downloaded the Eclipse 3.3 build for this something like >120 MB.
Started up Eclipse…Tada !!!
The Europa splash screen comes up.

After navigating the IDE, I realize that like the Callisto build Europa also needs to be installed through the Discovery service ie the Find and Install.
Luckily this comes pre-configured so no addition of extra URLs

After selecting the Europa, the choice of projects to install is yours to decide. This screen shot gives a birds eye view of some of the Top Level projects that Eclipse has to offer.
But like I said this is just the tip of the iceberg.

So gonna install this baby and checkout the happenin neo features..
Till next time…..

Netbeans 6.0 December 9, 2007

I’m doing my MS project with SOA and ESB as the primary choice of technology implementation. And after evaluating licenses and tooling support, primarily between Eclipse,JDeveloper & NetBeans I decided to go with:

Netbeans 6.0 and OpenESB
JDeveloper’s got some cool offering in BPEL, SOA but for the learning process I’m going with Netbeans 6.0.

I installed NB 6 a couple of months back & finally decided to give it a test drive to develop some JSF applications. And trust me when it comes to JSF application development no IDE can match the Netbeans 6.0. this has been integrated with the Sun Studio Creator line of IDEs.

So here’s cool splash:

That’s a neat splash, one of these days I’m going get my Photoshop skills upgraded just for the purpose of creating some cool splash screens.

Alright decided to create a Web app using JSF – Visual JSF framework

One of the good things about NB 6 is it is truly out of box. That’s right I the following cool things:

1) Application Server, WebServer
comes preinstalled.
2) Derby DB configured with the IDE and has examples schema that is used in the examples.
3) Easy to wire up app server with DB and enable it for the Web application.

So what it means for developers you are relatively new to the field is ease of use, starting the learning process becomes easier.
Hey I’m not saying this can’t be done with eclipse but hey the problem is there’s way too many eclipse configurations around that make things a little bit more interesting.
Hopefully distros like MyEclipse, EasyEclipse, Pulse are around …

So installation was like incredibly easy and the IDE simply looks beautiful. I’ve used NB at version 3.X and I didn’t find it all that easy but version 6 simply rocks.

Neat project configuration, lets you choose which Java based Web framework needs to implemented. Libraries can be configured separately.

And kapish you got a web a project created.

So some of the major views attached with NB 6 are:

Projects:

The projects view is a neat view that groups the different elements into groups.

Services:

This is the view which I’m interested in.
Alright like I said NB 6 comes wired with all the basic configurations.

So WYSIWYG.

The good thing about Services and when I compare it with eclipse is the ease of use that this view offers. It’s a single point entry to all server side configs.
In Eclipse you just got too many views to play with. HMmmm!! Something to think about.

Files:

This is the neat files View. Nothing great here just the standard for almost all IDEs.

So that’s about the project creation.
I’m using JSF these days so thought I’ll check out some JSF aspects as well.

Ok Creation of JSF Page:

Adding Elements from the Palette: Neat awesome this is as good as Visual Studio

Editing faces-config.xml

Alright there seems to be a problem with the application guess it’s a milestone build.
They’ve got a neat interface for reporting errors check it out:

And the application server Glassfish takes a long time to boot up I’d recommend you go with the bundled TomCat that’s like a lot faster.
Anyways guess I’ll need to reinstall this baby.

Warm Up Test December 9, 2007

Took the warm test in PR. Well the warm up test proved to be a major warning and an indicator that well

“Practice makes perfect”

Well I accept that.

The scores are not much to brag about. Here it is:

Princeton Review	GMAT Warmup Test	Verbal Score – 8/20	Math Score – 13/20

Preparation needs to Revamp… Losing Steam December 3, 2007

All right after the trip, I sure is hell have become real sloppy and lazy. GMAT prep seems to heading towards a dead end. Not good. Got to rethink, regroup, need to come up with new strategy to keep a steady learning process in place.

But first a list

1. Gonna grab the OG11 and get through the eval warm up to see where i am.
2. Complete the sample tests in Princeton Review
3. Thinking about joining a course like IMS’s GMAT Max Prep or 4GMAT gonna check that out. I’ll put that in the google calendar.
4. Revisit and evaluate the performance scores

First I think go grab some sleep wake up early at 6 or something and workout a test… Oh ! Yeah

Pulse From the Makers of My….. December 3, 2007

Alright the other day I was at EPIC trying to checkout some of the happening plugins when I came across this cool plugin. It’s from the makers of MyEclipse and it’s kinda like a single point tool to access all eclipse stuff and configure eclipse in a variety of ways. And the site’s kinda cool too.,

So downloaded the Installer that was like 2MB. So here’s some screenshots from the testrun, could’nt complete the install guess the package’s got a lot more to offer than what I would have guessed. Anyways gonna check it out this weekend.

When you startup the installer this cool Screen appears, now that’s what I call branding. Oh yeah it’s a beauty !!

And then there is a nice Welcome screen….

then I chose the Eclipse Europa package

The next screen had some options for downloads based on registration I opted for Anonymous, & after that the install was taking too much time so gonna check it out some time later.
For more….. Stay tuned…