Archive for August, 2009

TIBCO acquires DataSynapse

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

TIBCO joining the Cloud Band wagon by acquiring DataSynapse.

http://www.tibco.com/company/news/releases/2009/press985.jsp

Jython 2.2 in WebLogic 11g

Friday, August 21st, 2009

I just started playing around with WebLogic Server 11g and realised that Oracle has upgraded Jython from 2.1 to 2.2, very nice!

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Monitoring your WebLogic SSL Certificates is important

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

I was talking to my friend yesterday and he mentioned that he was up all night due to an outage that happened to the WebLogic environments he manages, when asked why?

Expired SSL Certificates!!! (more…)

VMWare to acquire Spring Source

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

This is a pretty interesting move by VMWare. Does this mean VMWare is trying to get into Java App Server space and become the new Under-dog?  Only time will tell.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=22526

WebLogic EmbeddedLDAP's MasterFirst Attribute saved my day!

Monday, August 10th, 2009

While provisioning WebLogic environments to a new infrastructure, recently we started experiencing a problem where the Managed Server had problems starting up. It consistently failed with the error shown below. (more…)

Managing your builds, tests and other external processes with Hudson

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Recently I started looking at Hudson to automate our builds, tests and automatic provisioning of environments. (more…)

How are python.cachedir and the error "*sys-package-mgr*: can't create package cache dir" are related

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

While starting WLST or for that matter Jython, you might have seen this annoying error message,

*sys-package-mgr*: can’t create package cache dir, ‘/tmp/cachedir/packages’
Traceback (innermost last):
File “<iostream>”, line 12, in ?
ImportError: no module named java

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Bizarre ant failure – Unknown argument: -cp

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

Recently I started running into this weird ant error that was causing a lot of our builds fail. (more…)