SOAP Web Services have lost quite some of their popularity: too complex, incompatibilities etc.  My answer is always that 1) SOAP just adds a very simple envelope around the request and response messages and 2) SOAP does work fine when you stick to the rules (a…

On day 2 of ProcessWorld I attended some sessions that were focusing on the 9.0 release. The first one was about a general introduction to webMethods 9.0. It started with a short overview of the new products: webMethods cloudStreams, webMethods Pulse, Command Central, ActiveTransfer, etc….

The day started with general keynotes from the CEO and CTO of Software AG. During these keynotes the so called “4 forces, shaping the future of IT” of Processworld 2012 were introduced: Big Data     Social/Collaboration  Cloud  Mobile All of these 4 forces are integrated…

Components CrossVista as a whole contains the following parts: CVCM package: the core TEAM server product  CVCM agents: packages that need to be installed on every integration server TEAM needs to connect to. Will be done automatically in the background.  TeamVCS package: package for concurrent…

Out of the box a package can be installed on webMethods Integration Server via the Administrator’s Package Management GUI or using WmDeployer. Following code snippet with allow you to install packages on a webMethods Integration Server through the usage of a custom developed java program,…

The problem We are using apache poi 3.8 to generate excels. Our excel generation is based on templates where we duplicate rows and columns as necessary to fit the data that is fed into them. In this particular usecase we add 23 rows and one…

Spring Expression Language (SpEL) can be used to configure beans in a spring application context. For example the Spring-batch framework makes heavy use of it for what they call late binding of properties. To get a feel of what SpEL can do, some examples from…

Why Skinning? CSS is the tool for webdevelopers (or more likely designers) to customize sites without having to alter code. This allows for visual variability without the need to compile/test/deploy/… things. It also allows user-specific theming where the user can decide which theme looks best….

Problem: When testing an interface in SAP PI I wanted to resend some idoc’s to PI. Resending a succesfully processed idoc in SAP PI is not possible from SXMB_MONI. You can use transaction WE19 from your backend system to do this, but I was not…

A couple of weeks ago I attended to the Prince2 practitioner course. Main driver to attend this training was to find out how it could help me in managing several simultanous B2B & EAI projects (called integration projects from here on). I want to share some reflections…

WS-Security mustUnderstand Environment: webmethods 8.0.1 Problem A client has asked us to enable ws-security when using a particular webservice he exposes (webmethods policy “Consumer policy for Username”). However when we call his webservice with the appropriate message level authentication, we receive the following soap fault:…