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Help me write a schema file: server.xsd: This is your opportunity to help me write a 'proper' schema XML file for the Genesis open source project. You lucky people...
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on April 09, 2008 at 02:35 PDT
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Middleware Strategy: I have been asked to come up with a "Middleware Strategy" by loads of people...
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on January 22, 2008 at 14:19 PDT
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Using Appc with Maven: How to configure the Maven WebLogic plug-in to precompile your EAR and WAR files.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on September 07, 2007 at 23:04 PDT
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IT Infrastructure Nomenclature: Environment names: What should you consider when naming your infrastructure environments? If you consider the requirements of the managers, testers, administrators and support teams that depend on your infrastructure you can create a nomenclature that can simplify the understanding of your enterprise architecture and automate it's provisioning.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on August 30, 2007 at 21:26 PDT
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Some simple rules for deliverables.: I recently had to the misfortune of opening up some EAR files that were delivered from a highly developer centric, Maven munching build process that integrated offshore code. In order to avoid another delivery of rubbish I asked them to adhere to some simple rules.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on August 22, 2007 at 02:42 PDT
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IT Infrastructure Nomenclature: Machine names: What to consider when naming your machines.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on August 11, 2007 at 01:34 PDT
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Recovering from O'RAC'LE outages: It might be sold as a little mi'rac'le that happens everyday but what do you do when your Oracle RAC decides to create new demand in the consultancy market and throws its toys out of the pram?
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on March 12, 2007 at 04:05 PDT
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Get your hands off me, you damn, dirty Console!: The WebLogic 9 console is a classic example of a product created by paper architects.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on February 21, 2007 at 03:14 PDT
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When is a BUG and good thing?: London Middleware the dev2dev Bea User Group meeting.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on February 13, 2007 at 04:43 PDT
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London Middleware at the Borough Bar!: Dev2Dev sponsor a gathering of London Middleware at the Borugh bar taking place on the 2nd of February 2007.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on January 23, 2007 at 08:27 PDT
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WebLogic Server Debug Environment Variables: A list of debug flags that I use with WebLogic Server.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on January 05, 2007 at 07:49 PDT
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Building and deploying your WebLogic domain Part 2: In this entry I continue to discuss the metrics that I used to measure the performance of our build processes and how they impacted the design of our new build process, a.k.a Choom.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on December 30, 2006 at 00:36 PDT
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BEA's presence in Iran: I didn't know WLS was being used in Iran until I received a support request from Iran!
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on November 04, 2006 at 10:49 PDT
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Building and deploying your WebLogic domain: Is your build process helping you to meet the demands of envoironment provisioning, or is it part of the problem? In my next few entries I will describe our build process, the metrics I used to measure it's performance and explain how our new build process improved our productivity.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on November 01, 2006 at 01:37 PDT
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My BEA World in Prague: Mines a Wild Boar and a bottle of the Saint-Emilion.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on October 19, 2006 at 09:23 PDT
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Dev2Dev Newsgroups: Since you want my opinion on newsgroups, here it is.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on September 19, 2006 at 13:25 PDT
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ESB using the sterile hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse: Thats right you can implement your SOA on the back of a mule. It's open source but does it fit in with BEA's blended approach?
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on August 10, 2006 at 12:29 PDT
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Death from a thousand cuts: Your log files contain thousands of errors and warnings but when you confront the application teams they insist you ignore the messages as everything "works". The next day your application deployments hang and servers fail to start. After countless retries your domain splutters into life. If this sounds familiar to you then make no mistake your domain is suffering a death from a thousand cuts.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on July 28, 2006 at 07:36 PDT
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Using SOA to cut out the middle man: Middleware isn't essential for SOA implementation and if your experience of it leads you to conclude it is expensive and difficult to support you cannot justify using it.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on June 30, 2006 at 00:19 PDT
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How not to manage application configuration: Configuring freaquently changing parameters using environment variables passed to the JVM on the command line is an indication that the application is not enterprise ready, -D=:(
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on June 24, 2006 at 03:54 PDT
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Using Systems Thinking when trouble-shooting: How to stop fire fighting and avoid participating the blame game by recognising those system archetypes that lead to failure.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on June 15, 2006 at 12:00 PDT
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Deployment caveats, gotchas and pitfalls: A treatise on the pain of failed deployment.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on May 31, 2006 at 15:42 PDT
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Dev2Dev Days London: BEA is going to show me how to use Open Source technology in a commercial environment.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on April 26, 2006 at 01:24 PDT
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Ghost in the Korn Shell: What happens to a running WebLogic domain if you delete the domain root directory?
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on April 12, 2006 at 05:27 PDT
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SSL configuration and DECRYPT error woes: Weblogic Server SSL configuration and what to do when things go wrong.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on February 27, 2006 at 15:39 PDT
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Whats in the Build?: A discussion of WebLogic server and custom application build processes.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on November 29, 2005 at 05:11 PDT
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Environment proving with WLST: Test BEA WebLogic server configuration using WLST
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on October 25, 2005 at 06:53 PDT
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One size fits all GC: A set of Java Garbage collection settings to suit most applications.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on October 07, 2005 at 03:24 PDT
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What, no WLST!: Example of using the weblogic.Admin tool to obtain information on WebLogic Servers runtime state.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on September 29, 2005 at 19:29 PDT
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Porsesh, a Java questionnaire engine: Porsesh is a Java questionnaire engine that can be used to generate multiple choice questionnaires.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on September 14, 2005 at 22:17 PDT
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Using execute queues to manage system resources: This entry describes how WebLogic execute queues can be used to mitigate system failures.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on August 30, 2005 at 00:42 PDT
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Apache Plug-In woes: Troubleshooting dropped user sessions when using BEA's Apache Plug-In for WebLogic Server.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on August 10, 2005 at 08:05 PDT
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Troubleshooting enterprise applications: Enterprise application troubleshooting experiences.
Posted by Hussein Badakhchani (hoos) on July 26, 2005 at 13:22 PDT
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