WebSphere Message Broker v7.0 announced

Here is the announcement letter for the latest version of WebSphere Message Broker.

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Russian spam comments

Is anyone else getting Russian spam, or is it because I have my name published on Russian websites?

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WebSphere Message Broker FixPack 3 – what’s new?

WebSphere Message Broker FixPack 3 is now available, and adds quite a lot of new function and support, including support for WebSphere MQ v7.0, Vista, and extended database support. There are also enhancements to mapping, monitoring, and xpath, plus some new nodes. To see the  full list of what ’s new in FixPack 3 see New [...]

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WebSphere Message Broker Help updated

The information center for WebSphere Message Broker v6.1 was updated last week. Here are the links to the latest information centers:
WebSphere Message Broker v6.0
WebSphere Message Broker v6.1
When you do a search using Google for WMB documentation, you are likely to get hits in the v6.0 message center, ensure the url contains v6r1m0 rather than v6r0m0 like the following [...]

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Enqueue/Dequeue and the Test Client

There is a hiccup in the WebSphere Message Broker documentation in the topics that talk about putting and getting test messages from within the WebSphere Message Broker toolkit. The topics that talk about putting and getting test messages in the debugging section haven’t been properly updated for changes in v6.1. The enqueue and dequeue functions are still [...]

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Trial version of WebSphere Message Broker v6.1

You can run a fully featured 90 day trial of WebSphere Message Broker v6.1 from here.

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WebSphere Message Broker docs update

To coincide with the release of fixpack 2 of WebSphere Message Broker v6.1 there has been an update to the documentation in the fixpack, and also on our online information center website. Alternatively you can download the latest help as a standalone information center or set of PDF books from the ftp site.

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Being tempted to the dark side

That sounds suspiciously like I’m off to join a competitor. But no, actually what I mean by the dark side is scripting and tools. Quite a lot of the tools that are knocked up in my department to perform tedious tasks are scripted using Perl. As part of my architecting duties, I’m needing to use [...]

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