Microservices, Monitoring, Infrastructure as Code & Test Automation

Rust, maintained by the Mozilla Foundation is a programming language which is intended to make writing secure, reliable, fast, and  parallel applications easier. http://www.rust-lang.org/

Rackspace has just launched its cloud SDK. It is based on the OpenStack open source cloud services. http://devops.rackspace.com/523/rackspace-sdks

I always liked the name Julia but now we have a nice new parallel programming language with that very name. The Julia Programming language is a parallel computing model that works across multiple cores and cluster nodes. To read more http://julialang.org/

Just recently I needed to perform some load / stress testing on a web application hosted on the east coast of america. I had a number of dedicated test boxes around Ireland and the UK but I was concerned that the geographic distance may be playing a part in the results I was seeing So I needed to get a server in the US from which I could launch similar tests. M-Net is a public-access UNIX system based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, owned by Arbornet You can telnet in to m-net.arbornet.org, login with newuser, no password, and it will allow you setup a username with password on a free bsd shell Great idea. It allowed me perform performance tests on my web app on the east coast from mid western US.

Installing sysstat on Ubuntu 1. Install apt-get install sysstat 2. Enable collection of system performance data vi /etc/default/sysstat set “ENABLED” to “true”. 3. Start the sysstat service /etc/init.d/sysstat start 4. Take a look at performance data every 10 minutes. sar If you'd like to change the interval (every 10 minutes) by which sysstat collects data.  You can change the interval by editing /etc/cron.d/sysstat PATH=/usr/lib/sysstat:/usr/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin # Activity reports every 10 minutes everyday 5-55/10 * * * * root command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1 # Activity reports every 5 minutes everyday 5-55/5 * * * * root command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1

An interesting option I just came accross while trying to FTP a complete site down to my linux clinet from the command line Instead of using the ftp client or mget etc you can use wget -r ftp://username:password@www.yourdomain.com/ But I think this may only recurse directories down to a level of 5 So using the switch -l 0 This solves that problem wget -r  -l 0 ftp://username:password@www.yourdomain.com/

Hadoop can also be run on a single-node in a pseudo-distributed mode where each Hadoop daemon runs in a separate Java process. 1. Install Java SDK if not already java -version In my case java version "1.6.0_22" was available So whereis javac If you don't have a recent java sdk installed download jdk and install wget http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/6u30-b12/jdk-6u30-linux-i586-rpm.bin Make sure to note the location where you install for use later in setting JAVA_HOME in my case JAVA_HOME was set to /usr 2. Do some basic tasks to make life easy mkdir /hadoop useradd hadoop passwd hadoop groupadd hadoop 3. Get stable release of hadoop, install in to /hadoop/hadoop cd /hadoop wget http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/www.apache.org/dist/hadoop/common/stable/hadoop-1.0.3.tar.gz tar -xvf  hadoop-1.0.3.tar.gz mv hadoop-1.0.3 hadoop export HADOOP_INSTALL=/hadoop/hadoop export PATH=$PATH:$HADOOP_INSTALL/bin Set these up in your logi

Some useful grep / sed / cut commands to help you monitor your log files and detect possible attacks to your system. Mainly based on CentOS 5.4 but can be tailored for other distros 1. Search through /var/log/secure and determine what IPs have the highest failed attempts to your FTP daemon in this instance vsftpd grep "authentication failure" secure.* | grep vsftpd   | sed s/::ffff://g  | cut -d' ' -f14 |sort|uniq -c|sort -nr|more 2. Search through /var/log/secure and determine what IPs have the highest failed attempts to your SSHD daemon grep "refused connect from" secure.*  | grep "sshd" | sed s/::ffff://g  | cut -d' ' -f9 |sort|uniq -c|sort -nr|more

vi /root/MySQLByPass.py ========== #!/usr/bin/python import subprocess while 1: subprocess.Popen("mysql -u root mysql --password=xx",shell=True).wait() ========== python /root/MySQLByPass.py

A vulnerability has been identified in Mysql and MariaDB. Basically under specific conditions it is possible for an attacker to provide any password and it will be accepted. The source file affected is password.c you can find an more detailed explaination and a fix here http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q2/493 All MariaDB and MySQL versions up to 5.1.61, 5.2.11, 5.3.5, 5.5.22 are vulnerable. MariaDB versions from 5.1.62, 5.2.12, 5.3.6, 5.5.23 are not. MySQL versions from 5.1.63, 5.5.24, 5.6.6 are not. If you know a username (root in most cases).  A situation arises where if you connect approx 250 to 300 times, that mysql will allow you connect without any password.

This was a procedure I found on the web to resolve error 0xc0000225 and 0x0000007b when booting a virtual windows 7 system after performing a p2v Mont the Win7 DVD in VMware Workstation using the removable media options or else change the bios setting in the VM so it will boot from an ISO image. At the first screen (Language Selection), hit Shift-F10 for a command prompt. Run Regedit. Highlight HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Load the system hive from the VM's disk, File > Load Hive Select < c: > \Windows\System32\config\system Regedit will ask for a Key name: Name it something like "asdf" Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\asdf\ControlSet001\Services\intelide Change the data for value "Start" from "3" to "0". For each service listed below under HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet001/Services/ set the "Start" parameter to the corresponding value from the list below Aliide = 3 Amdide =3 Atapi = 0 Cmdide = 3 iaStorV = 3 intelide = 0

Chive is a Web 2.0 front end for SQL database management. http://www.chive-project.com/

PolyMon is an open source system monitoring solution that can be used to generate email alerts and analyze historical trends of monitor counters and monitor statuses. It is based on the .NET 2.0 framework and SQL Server 2005. The most recent version integrates with Visual Studio 2010 http://polymon.codeplex.com/ I write some software using VB.NET and C# and this is ideal as an add-on, where I can extend it to allow me monitor application specific logs.

Recently I needed to take a copy of a mysql database dump on a regular basis from a remote CentOS database server hosted in a data centre in the UK, on to a Windows Server based in Ireland also running a similar version of MySQL. We require a copy of the data on an hourly basis So I decided to try out unison to synchronize folders between a remote server and local server Windows Server Firstly download unison from this located at http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download.html When I downloaded the latest binary option for Windows you get two files, one is the text/command line tool and the other is an application based on gtk. I took a copy of the command line application, created a folder called c:\unison an dropped my file in to that folder. You will also need to grab a copy of an ssh client that will run under windows. you can go with something like cygwin but I wanted something that was quick to install and had a small foot print so I selected OpenSSH for Window

I've been developing some basic android applications.   After carrying out some testing using the emulator within eclipse I wanted to deploy the app to my phone so I could show to some customers. You'd think it would be fairly straight forward, not so.   Anyway  a little problem I came across was when I ran the command  adb devices From the platform-tools folder it was showing no devices attached even though I'd connected my phone and I'd set USB debug mode according to the android SDK how-tos. I also tried to reboot the adb daemon with adb reboot recovery Again no joy Finally I tried the following and it worked adb kill-server adb start-server And finally adb devices listed my phone correctly

Recently I came across a problem where I needed to give users both internal and remote access to the admin features of an x-cart ecommerce site. Basically in this instance we host the admin portion of the site on an internal server and the actual online store is hosted in two data centres one in Ireland and the other in the UK. The problem I had, I wanted to use two different domains e.g. http://intheoffice/admin http://workingremote.yourdomain.com/admin The problem with earlier versions of x-cart is that you can only assign a single domain name to the one installation. To do this you change $xcart_http_host to point to the domain you wish to use I was using WAMP on a Windows Server 2003 system So to get around this, because I was using only the admin portion of the site I knew the source code for the admin features would not change that often (if at all) so I created two working directories c:\webfolder\internal    // this is the directory that will contain

Recently I've been working on a project that involves creating an easy to use, quick way to rebuild a workstation in the event of a hardware failure. The environment is very different to your typical network environment in that the following characteristics hold true 1. There is no internet connection on this workstation. 2. The workstations work in a harsh environment on a network segment of their up 3. There is a manual procedure in place to allow you connect the workstation to a central company network where you can access central file shares etc. 4. This environment is replicated throughout the business at several locations each location been isolated as above. You can use tools like Ghost or Symantec System Recovery however I came up with this easy to use option that meets with the requirements of my client. Because each machine is an identical build, we have a central computer in head office which hosts all the pre-installed software i.e. Windows 7, bus

This is a very crude example of how to use a windows batch script to backup each table within a mysql database to an individual sql file in a folder. @ECHO OFF FOR /F %%G IN ('"echo show tables | mysql -s -u user -ppassword mydatabase"')  DO mysqldump -s -u user --password=password mydatabase %%G > t:\mysqlbackup\tables\%%G.sql

If you develop software solutions that require the transfer of large XML files between computer systems accross a distributed network or if you are developing software for devices with limited computational resources such as memory or available bandwidth, OpenEXI can substantially enhance the performance of your software. What is OpenEXI? OpenEXI is an open source Java implementation that provides tools you can use to transform XML files to Efficient XML Interchange (EIX) format and back. This transformation can be performed very quickly with no risk of data loss. What is EXI? EXI (Efficient XML Interchange) is a more concise method of describing XML documents. To find out more please visit the OpenEXI web site http://openexi.sourceforge.net/ Or watch this quick introduction.

Somehting you will notice if you are running JBoss from behind a firewall is that it can take a long time to respond to some events. This is becasue JBoss is trying to resolve external references to xsd files. You should see messages similar to this in your log files 16:07:03,071 WARN  [JBossEntityResolver] Trying to resolve systemId as a non-file URL: http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd To get around this and to speed things up you need to change the reference in persistence.xml to a local xsd file Like this Step 1: Download persistence_2_0.xsd, and place it in your META-INF folder. Step 2: Change persistence.xml to point to local file reference <persistence version="2.0"  xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence"         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"  xsi:schemaLocation="file://persistence_2_0.xsd         http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence">

A good enough weekend, didn't throw that well on Saturday but it was my first competition in a long time. So can only get better.  Need a lot of work to improve my throwing technique Its a great hobby outside computers.  Next event will be the Kerry County Masters on 27th May this year. Anyway time to get back to the serious work.

At last its time for my first athletics competition in over 15 years. My last competition was in 1997, a life time ago.  I was an average sprinter in those days 200m and 400m. About 18 months ago I started to get fit again. But its surprising how quickly the bug catches you, I started with a pretty basic routine 3 days per week but after a couple of months I already found myself trainign 5 to 6 times a week and enjoying it. About 6 months ago I decided I'd put all that training to use, and I started to focus in on a specific event. I never did any throwing events before. So I thought the shot put would be the easiest to learn.   Could I be more wrong.  For an event that looks very simple on TV, its a lot more complex.  But its good to learn something new. Anyway first competition tomorrow. The Leevale Games 2012 http://www.leevale.org/2012/leevale-2012-tf-meet-notices/ The European Junior 1500m silver-medallist Ciara Mageean will be taking part and I can't w

Excellent presentation from Steve Hanson IBM, explaining DFDL and its implementation within IBM Websphere Message Broker v8.0 DFDL Implementation - Modeling Text and Binary Data using WebSphere Message Broker V8

Previous to Message Broker 7, the Transaction ID (TID) store was standalone and specific to each individual Broker in your system architecture architecture.  This made building HA solutions difficult and potentially error prone. As a result it was possible for an event to generate duplicate updates as a result of having two different TIDs for the same event in two different TID stores (one for each broker).   With the introduction of Message Broker 7 support for a shared queue as the TID store was introduced. This enables a shared TID store to support multiple brokers, by configuring the TID store on a single remote queue manager. As all brokers use the same central TID Store,  each Message Broker can ensure transaction integrity and avoid duplicate event delivery in the event of a connection failure. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/1203_agarwal/1203_agarwal.html

SKIPFISH is an automated, active web application security assessment tool. SKIPFISH can be used to run  a series of tests on a website or web application to help identify potential secuirty risks. SKIPFISH will classify risks discovered as high, medium and low. Example risks are Server-side SQL injection  Explicit SQL-like syntax in GET or POST parameters. Server-side shell command injection Server-side XML / XPath injection  Format string vulnerabilities. Integer overflow vulnerabilities. For more information visit  http://code.google.com/p/skipfish/

Spring Roo is a lightweight RAD tool for Java.   Roo makes it fast and easy to develop software applications based on Spring. Applications created using Spring Roo follow Spring best practices and are based on standards such as JPA Bean Validation (JSR-303) Dependency Injection (JSR-330) Roo is ideal for quick protoype application development and I've found it really useful for creating quick CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) based software demos for clients. In my view it still has a long way to go before it can be used for creating savy looking, complex commercially viable software solutions. You can find out more at http://www.springsource.org/roo 

DataCleaner is an easy to use open source  data quality tool that is designed to help you profile, compare, validate and monitor datasets from various data sources. DataCleaner consist of A standalone windows application for profiling, comparing and validating your datasets. A web based applciation for monitoring datasets. Some key features of DataCleaner include: Profiles a dataset quickly Integrate with most data sources including Oracle, MySQL, MS Access, SQL Server, CSV files, dbase and more Find out which values occur the most with the Value Distribution profile Discover patterns in your dataset with the Pattern Finder You can find out more on the DataCleaner website here

w3af (Web Application audit and attack framework) is a framework for auditing and exploiting  web applications.   These are some excellent articles on using w3af to help with your web application penetration testing tasks.   Walkthrough and tutorial – Part 1 w3af walkthrough and tutorial part 2 – Discovery and Audit plugins w3af Walkthrough and Tutorial In addition you can also find a list of 35 Web Penetration Tools used for Web Application Vulnerability Testing listed here on Back2Hack  

Cloudyn is the first service that allows people to optimize and control their costs for public cloud computing such as Amazon. http://cloudyn.com/ In summary Cloudyn will  Help you change your image provisioning and price plans at Amazon so that you can achieve the results that you want at the lowest possible cost.  Lead to higher usage of public cloud services such as Aamazon as their price/performance trade-off can now be better managed. Put additional pressure on internal IT departments and external IT service providers to provide the same kind of data and management options to their internal business funcitons and customers. Cloudyn is at a very early stage. They will need to extend the service to allow more sophisticated analysis of how cloud images are provisioned and utlised as a result of application specific performance demands such as transaction throughput, response times, concurrency etc they will also need to extend the service to work with other cloud vendors i.e

Apache releases new generation of ApacheMQ http://activemq.apache.org/apollo/index.html And it produces some interesting performance results. You can read more at this blog These guys ran STOMP benchmarks against the lastest releases of the 4 most feature packed STOMP servers: Apache ActiveMQ 5.5.1 Apache ActiveMQ Apollo 1.0 Beta 6 (an ActiveMQ Subproject) HornetQ 2.2.5 RabbitMQ 2.7.0

A nice tool I came across recently ‘vmtouch’ which is used to help you manage what data is in memory.  Its great when failing over from one machine to another where there is no active memory profile already. To get started download vmtouch from here http://hoytech.com/vmtouch/vmtouch.c Then compile with the following gcc -Wall -O3 -o vmtouch vmtouch.c To find out how much of your /bin directory is in the file system cache run ./vmtouch /bin You will see something similar to this        Files: 91      Directories: 1   Resident Pages: 512/2115  2M/8M  24.2%          Elapsed: 0.002669 seconds If I want to check how much of mysqld is in the cache ./vmtouch  /usr/libexec/mysqld            Files: 1      Directories: 0   Resident Pages: 671/1886  2M/7M  35.6%          Elapsed: 0.00029 seconds Say you want to check how much of your mysql indexes are in cache this is two examples ./vmtouch  /var/lib/mysql/xcart/xcart_products.MYI            Files: 1      Directories: 0   Resident Page

import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import com.ibm.broker.config.appdev.MessageFlow; import com.ibm.broker.config.appdev.FlowRendererMSGFLOW; public class LoadMessageFlow {     public static void main(String[] args)     {         File oMsgFlowFile = new File("/root/ibm/myflow.msgflow");         MessageFlow oMessageFlow = FlowRendererMSGFLOW.read(oMsgFlowFile);         MQInputNode oNode1 = (MQInputNode) oMessageFlow.getNodeByName("Node1");         MQOutputNode mNode2 = (MQOutputNode) oMessageFlow.getNodeByName("Node2");         oMessageFlow.disconnect(oNode1.OUTPUT_TERMINAL_OUT, oNode2.INPUT_TERMINAL_IN);     } }

'---------------------------------------------------- ' Basic Routine to Read / Parse XML Job Reports created ' by Symantec Backup Exec. Dim serverName, backupJobFile, el, jobName, startDateTime, endDateTime, jobStatus Dim fso,XMLDoc Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") backupJobFile ="c:\xml\m.xml" Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument") xmlDoc.load(backupJobFile) Set el = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("machine_name") serverName = el.item(0).Text Set el = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("name") jobName = Replace(el.item(0).Text,"Job name: ","") Set el = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("start_time") startDateTime = Replace(el.item(0).Text,"Job started: ","") Set el = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("end_time") endDateTime = Replace(el.item(0).Text,"Backup completed on ","")           Set el = xmlDoc.getElement

A list of some new features in websphere Message Broker v8 Better support for Microsoft Integration via the .NET Compute node and access to COM objects Support for CLR based .NET languages including  C#, VB.NET. Support for DFDL which now allows your message flow to parse a variety of other data formats. Support for WS-ReliableMessaging (Web Services Reliable Messaging) Create message flows dynamically from your programs with a new command api Record, edit and replay messages Improved activity logging to easily understand broker behavior Easy to use browser based web administration interface.

In your AddContact.aspx page use something like the following       <div class="row-fluid">             <div class="span6">                 <h2>New Contact</h2>             </div>             <div class="span6">                 <asp:Label ID="AlertWindow" Visible="false" CssClass="alert alert-success" runat="server"></asp:Label>             </div>         </div> And in your AddContact.aspx.vb code use something similar to this.  Basically set the message for the alert window, make the alert window visible and set the approprate css style.  You can make this  alot cleaner with a set of classes to implement bootstrap for ASP.NET.  So this is just an example.     ......     ......     AlertWindow.Visible = True     Try         ......         sSQLQuery = "INSERT INTO......"         ......         AlertWindow.Text = "New Contact

While this may not be 100% up to date its a useful start if you wish to compare the various business integration and business process automation software available on the market. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_business_integration_software

Firstly download, configure, compile and install gsoap Step 1: get up and running mkdir gsoap wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/gsoap2/files/gSOAP/gSOAP%202.7.16%20stable/gsoap_2.7.16.zip/download cd /root/gsoap/gsoap-2.7 yum install byacc yum install bison yum install flex ./configure ./make ./make install Step 2: Setup working folder and create stubs from remote wsdl via URL. Note I'm just using plain old C and not C++. mkdir ./OrderService wsdl2h -c -o OrderService.h http://83.71.23.20:7800/acmeOrders/WADDR/ProcessOrders?wsdl soapcpp2 -c OrderService.h Step 3: Create your test C client using your fav editor (mine vi) #include "soapH.h" #include "OrderServiceSOAP.nsmap" main() {    struct soap *soap = soap_new();    struct _ns1__submitPORequest  request;    struct _ns1__submitPOResponse response;    request.partNo="1234";    request.partQuantity=1;    request.personName.firstName="Trevor";    request.personName.lastN

SQLData offers a SOAP client library which allows you to access web services using  C/C++ code.  With a few lines of code you can easily access a web service exposed from a SoapInput Node on Websphere Message Broker. Here is a short example, the trick is to store the parameters you wish to pass to the Web Service Method in two arrays, the first array in this instance pParams stores the parameter names as they appear in the WSDL e.g. partNo etc, note that parameters which have a nested structure within the WSDL, they must appear similar e.g. address.zipCode.  In the second array you store the values. Place a NULL at the end of each array. Here goes, compiled with Visual Studio 2008, Soap Client Library for C++ 3.6, IBM Message Broker 7.0, Message Broker Toolkit 7.0 and MQ 7.1 #include <windows.h> #include <tchar.h> #include "SoapClientApi.h" #include "exportdef.h" #include "stringdef.h" #define DEBUG_MODE_ON 1 #define DEBUG_MODE_OF

xbean in ServiceMix to poll a particular folder for incoming orders, pass them on to service OrderProcess, move a copy to archive folder and delete original from inbox. <?xml version="1.0"?> <beans xmlns:f="http://servicemix.apache.org/file/1.0"    xmlns:tut="http://www.servicemix.org/ns/jbi"    xmlns:sm="http://servicemix.apache.org/config/1.0">    <f:poller       service="tut:orderfilePoller"       endpoint="pollEndpoint"       file="${file.poll.folder}"       targetService="ex:orderProcess"       period="${file.poll.period}"       deleteFile="${file.poll.delete}"       archive="${file.poll.archive}"       recursive="${file.poll.recursive}" />    <bean id="propertyConfigurer"  class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">       <property name="location">  

I like simplicity, in particular when it comes to UI design, its nice to have a clean, simple, less is more approach. Recently I came accross bootstrap from twitter and its all of the above. When you need to design a system that does not require a flashy front end this is ideal. Best about components like this is that they allow you to spend more time on the actual functionality or problem the solution is acutally solving. Check it out here http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/index.html

<u:proxy id="file-proxy">     <u:transport id="file">         <u:property name="url" value="file:///hunt/pixmania/orders/incoming"/>         <u:property name="fileNamePattern" value=".*\.pxml"/>         <u:property name="startDelay" value="1000"/>         <u:property name="repeatInterval" value="1000"/>         <!--<u:property name="concurrent" value="true"/>-->         <!--<u:property name="cronExpression" value="0 * * ? * MON-FRI"/>-->         <u:property name="moveAfterProcess" value="/hunt/pixmania/orders/processed"/>         <u:property name="moveAfterFailure" value="/hunt/pixmania/orders/failed"/>         <u:property name="moveTimestampFormat" value="yyyy_MM_dd_'T'HH_mm_ss.SSSSZ"/>     &l

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Collections; using System.Linq; using System.Text; namespace ShareManager {     abstract class Shares     {         private string _companysymbol;         private double _shareprice;         private List<ShareHolder> _shareholders = new List<ShareHolder>();         public Shares(string companysymbol, double shareprice)         {             this._companysymbol = companysymbol;             this._shareprice = shareprice;         }         public void Watch(ShareHolder shareholder)         {             _shareholders.Add(shareholder);         }         public void Detach(ShareHolder shareholder)         {             _shareholders.Remove(shareholder);         }         public void Notify()         {             foreach (ShareHolder shareholder in _shareholders)             {                 shareholder.Update(this);             }             Console.WriteLine("");      

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; namespace ConsoleReduceApplicationTest {     class Program     {         public class ReduceSimple         {             delegate T Func<T>(T arg0, T arg1);             T Reduce<T>(T[] input, T seed, Func<T> r)             {                 T result = seed;                 foreach (T e in input)                     result = r(result, e);                 return result;             }             public void CheckReduce()             {                 int[] nums = new int[] { 1, 2, 5, 10, 1 };                 int sum = Reduce(nums, 0, (x, y) => x + y);                 int min = Reduce(nums, int.MaxValue, (x, y) => x < y ? x : y);                 int max = Reduce(nums, int.MinValue, (x, y) => x > y ? x : y);                 Console.WriteLine("Total Value=" + sum);                 Console.WriteLine("Max Value=" + max);      

This method compares destination to currentValue, and if they're equal sets destination to newValue and returns currentValue unchanged. If they aren't equal it just returns the value of destination. This is done in an atomic fashion i.e. no other thread can interrupt it.  In carrys out this in atomic fashion becasue its executed at hardware level with a single nstruction CMPXCH instruction. public class LockFreeStack<T> {     private volatile StackNode<T> m_head; private static bool CAS(ref Node<T> destination, Node<T> currentValue, Node<T> newValue) {    return          currentValue== Interlocked.CompareExchange<Node<T>>(ref destination, newValue, currentValue);  }     public void Push(T item) {         StackNode<T> node = new StackNode<T>(item);         StackNode<T> head;         do {             head = m_head;             node.m_next = head;         } while (m_head != head || CAS(ref

I recently upgraded from MB7 and MBT7 to MB8 and MBT8 One of the first features I wanted to try out was the ability for MBT8 to import a .NET assembly All was fine on the MBT8 side of things and I was able to create my basic Message Broker Project However when I launched Visual Studio C# and selected New Project I could not find any project templates for Message Broker To install these template project wizards I had to run the following from a command prompt  C:\Program Files\IBM\WMBT800\wmbt\vsixinstall.bat I assume the vsix stands for Visual Studio Extensions And it worked

This is a basic Ruby Script to engage with SoapInput Node running on localhost 7800 with MBT require 'net/http' require 'net/https' # Create te http object http = Net::HTTP.new('localhost', 7800) http.use_ssl = false path = '/acmeOrders/WADDR/ProcessOrders' # Create the SOAP Envelope data = <<-EOF <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <soap:Body> <submitPORequest xmlns="http://www.acmeOrders.com/OrderService"> <partNo xmlns="">11</partNo> <partQuantity xmlns="">0</partQuantity> <personName xmlns=""> <firstName>Trevor</firstName><lastName>O Connell</lastName> </personName> <address x

Once you've loaded and deploy the SOAP Node Samples project you can add a web service reference in Visual Studio 2088 (Project / Add Web Reference). Enter the URL http://localhost:7800/acmeOrders/WADDR/ProcessOrders?wsdl In my case I added the reference name "orders" So from within my Visual Basic.NET code Dim vOrders As New orders.OrderService() Dim vRequest As New orders.submitPORequest() Dim vResponse As New orders.submitPOResponse() vRequest.partNo = tPartNo.Text vRequest.address = New orders.submitPORequestAddress() vRequest.personName = New orders.submitPORequestPersonName() vRequest.personName.firstName = tFirstname.Text vRequest.personName.lastName = tLastname.Text vRequest.address.street = tStreet.Text vRequest.address.zipCode = tZipCode.Text vRequest.address.city = tCity.Text vResponse = vOrders.submitPO(vRequest) tStatus.Text = vResponse.orderStatus Below is a screenshot. Its nothing too difficult but it just gets your VB.NET application t

How to reference variables to access elements of an array. DECLARE ref REFERENCE TO OutputRoot.XML.Invoice.SalesOrders.Item[1]; WHILE LASTMOVE(ref)=TRUE DO SET ref = ref + 1; MOVE ref NEXTSIBLING; END WHILE;

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CREATE COMPUTE MODULE Send_Mail CREATE FUNCTION Main() RETURNS BOOLEAN BEGIN -- CALL CopyMessageHeaders(); -- CALL CopyEntireMessage(); CALL CopyMessageHeaders(); -- Add recipient information to the EmailOutputHeader SET OutputRoot.EmailOutputHeader.To = 'info@dtm.ie'; -- Add sender information to EmailOutputHeader SET OutputRoot.EmailOutputHeader.From = 'trevor.oconnell@dtm.ie'; -- Add subject to EmailOutputHeader SET OutputRoot.EmailOutputHeader.Subject = 'Test.'; -- Add SMTP server information to the LocalEnvironment SET OutputLocalEnvironment.Destination.Email.SMTPServer ='mail.dtm.ie:25'; SET OutputLocalEnvironment.Destination.Email.SecurityIdentity ='MyIdentity'; -- Create a new message body, which will be sent as the main text of the email. SET OutputRoot.BLOB.BLOB = CAST('This is the new text for the body of the email.' AS BLOB CCSID 1208);   RETURN TRUE; END;

A new proposal called "Sovereign Keys", which is intended to resolve weaknesses in the way that encrypted Internet protocols perform authentication for applications such as web servers and mail servers. Hopefully get rid of those nasty certificate warning messages that no one except techies understand, and even for techies they can be a struggle at times. More on Sovereign Keys

<Shares> <Kerry>5</Kerry> <Fexco>12</Fexco> <AIB>40</AIB> </Shares> Change AIB to BOI instead, Feed XML in to XMLNS format MQ Input Node, Create  MQIN CREATE FUNCTION Main() RETURNS BOOLEAN BEGIN -- CALL CopyMessageHeaders(); -- CALL CopyEntireMessage(); SET OutputRoot.XMLNS.Data = ROW(InputBody.Shares.Kerry, InputBody.Shares.Fexco, (InputBody.Shares.AIB) AS BOI); RETURN TRUE; END; Receive output in MQ Output Node MQOUT <Data> <Kerry>5</Kerry> <Fexco>12</Fexco> <BOI>40</BOI> </Data>

package my.mq.samples; import javax.jms.JMSException; import javax.jms.Session; import javax.jms.TextMessage; import com.ibm.mq.jms.MQQueue; import com.ibm.mq.jms.MQQueueConnection; import com.ibm.mq.jms.MQQueueConnectionFactory; import com.ibm.mq.jms.MQQueueReceiver; import com.ibm.mq.jms.MQQueueSession; import com.ibm.msg.client.wmq.WMQConstants; public class MQReceive {   public static void main(String[] args) { try { MQQueueConnectionFactory cf = new MQQueueConnectionFactory(); cf.setHostName("localhost"); cf.setPort(1414);     cf.setIntProperty(WMQConstants.WMQ_CONNECTION_MODE, WMQConstants.WMQ_CM_CLIENT); cf.setQueueManager("QM_GRIDSERVER"); cf.setChannel("SYSTEM.ADMIN.SVRCONN");     MQQueueConnection connection = (MQQueueConnection) cf.createQueueConnection(); //MQQueueConnection connection = (MQQueueConnection) cf.createQueueConnection("username","password");      

package my.mq.samples;   import javax.jms.JMSException; import javax.jms.Session; import javax.jms.TextMessage; import com.ibm.mq.jms.MQQueue; import com.ibm.mq.jms.MQQueueConnection; import com.ibm.mq.jms.MQQueueConnectionFactory; import com.ibm.mq.jms.MQQueueSender; import com.ibm.mq.jms.MQQueueSession; import com.ibm.msg.client.wmq.WMQConstants; public class MQSend {     public static void main(String[] args) { try { MQQueueConnectionFactory cf = new MQQueueConnectionFactory(); cf.setHostName("localhost"); cf.setPort(1414);       cf.setIntProperty(WMQConstants.WMQ_CONNECTION_MODE, WMQConstants.WMQ_CM_CLIENT); cf.setQueueManager("QM_GRIDSERVER"); cf.setChannel("SYSTEM.ADMIN.SVRCONN");       MQQueueConnection connection = (MQQueueConnection) cf.createQueueConnection(); //MQQueueConnection connection = (MQQueueConnection) cf.createQueueConnection("username","password");  

Working with CSV files and mapping them from/to any of the WebSphere Message Broker domains is a lot easier with the support for DFDL files in version 8.0 Using DFDL files you can easily create message flows to parse and serialize CSV messages to and from any of the WebSphere Message Broker domains. http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wmbhelp/v8r0m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.dfdl.editor.messagebroker.doc%2Fdf20071_.html For example I'd a project where I needed to capture order information from several third party marketplaces. Each marketplace offered different methods for accessing the most recent order information for our account. For example Web Services Interface FTP  Email In addition each marketplace used a different format sometimes XML based and sometimes CSV based to describe orders placed. Using the DFDL its a lot easier to create a mapping  between these various marketplace formats and in turn creates a standard output XML format that is suitable for our

Launch a message broker command console and issue the following commands mqsicreateconfigurableservice MB7BROKER –c SMTP –o SMTPAlias mqsichangeproperties MB7BROKER –c SMTP –o SMTPAlias –n serverName –v mail.trevoroconnell.com:25 mqsichangeproperties MB7BROKER –c SMTP –o SMTPMyAlias –n securityIdentity –v mySecurity mqsisetdbparms MB7BROKER -n securityIdentity –u trevor.oconnell@trevoroconnell.com -p trevor Then within the WMBT, add your EmailOutput Node to the message flow Open properties for the EmailOutput Node and for SMTP Server enter the alias SMTPAlias

JClouds makes building highly available cloud based applications a lot easier.  JClouds creates an abstraction layer that is independent of the underlying cloud infrastructure. So for example JCloud Compute API allows you to easily interface with infrastructure cloud providers such as Amazon EC2 and VMWare vCloud etc using a single standard API. So basically if you app runs across multiple computer nodes across multiple cloud infrastructure providers you only need to worry about learning one API to manage computer nodes i.e. the JCloud ComputeNode API. http://www.jclouds.org/documentation/userguide/compute