These days our folks at WSO2 are working hard for the next major release of Carbon, which is Carbon 3.0.0. It will be released end of March with lot of new features to enrich our SOA middleware platform. During last few days, I was working on this new concept of separating Registry to suite our platform story.

All our Carbon based products internally uses WSO2 Registry as a repository to persist data. For example, in WSAS all data about services, modules etc are stored in the Registry to make sure the same state is maintained even after restarting the server. And also, user is provided with a Registry browser and allowed to store whatever data he needs. This is model used in all our previous releases of Carbon.

In the upcoming 3.0.0 release, this Registry is separated out into three parts to perfectly suite our platform story.

1. Local Data Repository – This Registry instance is internally used by the server to persist instance specific information. These can be logs, transport information etc.
2. Configuration Registry – This Registry instance is shared across a cluster which contains several identical instances of Carbon. Data which should be shared by all nodes in the cluster are stored in this Registry. For example, in a WSAS cluster, data on services, modules etc. are stored here. In addition to that, all Carbon component specific information are also stored here.
3. Governance Registry – This Registry instance is shared across the entire platform. In other words, a complete SOA setup can contain few clusters of different products which together form a SOA platform. So this Governance Registry instance is used completely by the user to centrally manage stuff. For example, WSDLs, policies etc. which should be shared across the platform. 

By default, all these 3 registries reside in the same physical registry instance. Local data repository is always an embedded registry instance. User is allowed to configure Config and Governance registry locations through the registry.xml file. In other words, those can be pointed to remote registry instances.

This feature is already completed in Carbon 3.0.0 and will be coming out in March. This will be a great advantage for the users who are developing complete SOA solutions.

Shahani (my wife) is blogging! She has started with a great piece on what’s going on in Sri Lanka.

public class SignIn extends SeleneseTestCase {

public void setUp() throws Exception {
   setUp("https://localhost:9443/carbon/", "*chrome");
}

   public void testSignInValdation() throws Exception {
       BufferedReader in = null;
       InputStreamReader inputStream = null;

       inputStream = new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("C:" + File.separator + "signin.txt"));
       in = new BufferedReader(inputStream);
       String line = null;

       while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
            System.out.println("password: " + line);
            selenium.open("/carbon/admin/login.jsp");
            selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
            selenium.type("txtUserName", "yumani");
            selenium.type("txtPassword", line);
            selenium.click("//input[@value='Sign-in']");
            selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
       }
   }
}

• Direct maven invocation - you can run tests individually by passing a system property as follows

• Run tests through a shell script - You can run tests individually or as a whole suite or few tests at once using this way. Here, it is required to uncomment the selected tests in wsas_test_suites.txt. The runAll.sh shell script read the test names from wsas_test_suites.txt and invoke each test.

The February 8th issue of the Newsweek (International) magazine has an absolutely great article titled “End of the Rogue”. The article is about how the concept of a “rogue state” (apparently created the cold war days) is no longer valid and how the US needs to get past it.

Not surprisingly many comments on the online edition don’t agree that the US approach needs to change. Living in Sri Lanka, however, and having observed the wrath of the US (and UK and EU) for the way the anti-LTTE war was conducted and ended, I can see what must be going on in “rogue” countries!

The most interesting quote I found in the article is this:

We don’t have the right to think other people should think like us.

If we all could live by that the entire world would be a better place!

function brakeColumns(query) {
  var columnList = new Array();
  var patten1 = /^[\w\$][\w]*/i;
  var patten2 = /^[\w\$][\w]*\.[\w\$][\w]*$/i;
  var numEnd = query.search(/\sfrom\s/i);
   var elems = (query.substring(6, numEnd)).split(",");
   for (var i = 0; i < elems.length; i++) {
       var elem = elems[i].toString();
       elem = trim(elem);
       var stPoint = "";
       var wanted = "";
       if (elem.search(/\sas\s/i) != -1) {
           stPoint = elem.search(/\sas\s/i);
           wanted = elem.substring(stPoint + 4);
           wanted = trim(wanted);
           if (patten1.test(wanted)) {
               columnList.push(wanted);
           }
       } else if (patten2.test(elem)) {   //check for tablename.column name pattern
           stPoint = elem.search(/\./);
           wanted = elem.substring(stPoint + 1);
           wanted = trim(wanted);
           if (patten1.test(wanted)) {
               columnList.push(wanted);
           }
       } else {   //check for straight column name like username,passsword etc
           if (patten1.test(elem)) {
               columnList.push(elem);
           }
       }
   }
   return(columnList);
}


function trim(stringToTrim) {
   return stringToTrim.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, "");
}

alert(/^[a-zA-Z\$_][a-zA-Z0-9]*/.test("testVar"));

Samisa Abeysinghe, the directory of engineering at WSO2 will present a webinar on Building an Agile Enterprise With Business Activity Monitoring today (3rd February 2010).

There he will provide an overview of WSO2 Business Activity Monitor (WSO2 BAM), the latest product from the WSO2 Carbon platform, including its built-in dashboard to view analytics , reports of past and present activities of the enterprise SOA infrastructure and how these information can be used in tactical and strategic decision making.

function putInsidePre(txt,toPre){
var preText = document.createTextNode(txt);
document.getElementById(toPre).appendChild(preText);
}

.codeStyle {
background-color:#EAEFF1;
border:1px solid #88BFCE;
color:#325669;
display:block;
font-size:11px;
height:200px;
line-height:1.5em;
overflow:auto;
}

 tag and give it a id and call "putInsidePre" method to populate it.

Here is a full working example.

<html>
<head>
<style>
.codeStyle {
background-color:#EAEFF1;
border:1px solid #88BFCE;
color:#325669;
display:block;
font-size:11px;
height:200px;
line-height:1.5em;
overflow:auto;
}
</style>
<script>
function putInsidePre(txt,toPre){
var preText = document.createTextNode(txt);
document.getElementById(toPre).appendChild(preText);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>

<pre class="codeStyle" id="codeBlock"></pre>
<script>
putInsidePre('<html><head></head><body>Content</body></html>',"codeBlock");
</script>
</body>
</html>

KeyPairGenerator keyPairGenerator = KeyPairGenerator.getInstance("RSA");
keyPairGenerator.initialize(1024);
KeyPair KPair = keyPairGenerator.generateKeyPair();

X509V3CertificateGenerator v3CertGen = new X509V3CertificateGenerator();

v3CertGen.setSerialNumber(BigInteger.valueOf(new SecureRandom().nextInt()));
        v3CertGen.setIssuerDN(new X509Principal("CN=" + domainName + ", OU=None, O=None L=None, C=None"));
        v3CertGen.setNotBefore(new Date(System.currentTimeMillis() - 1000L * 60 * 60 * 24 * 30));
        v3CertGen.setNotAfter(new Date(System.currentTimeMillis() + (1000L * 60 * 60 * 24 * 365*10)));
        v3CertGen.setSubjectDN(new X509Principal("CN=" + domainName + ", OU=None, O=None L=None, C=None"));

v3CertGen.setPublicKey(KPair.getPublic());
v3CertGen.setSignatureAlgorithm("MD5WithRSAEncryption"); 

X509Certificate PKCertificate = v3CertGen.generateX509Certificate(KPair.getPrivate());

FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("/path/to/testCert.cert");
fos.write(PKCertificate.getEncoded());
fos.close();

keytool -printcert -file /path/to/cert

KeyStore privateKS = KeyStore.getInstance("JKS");
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("/path/to/sample-key-store.jks");
privateKS.load(fis, "keyStorePass".toCharArray());

privateKS.setKeyEntry("sample.alias", KPair.getPrivate(),
                   new char[]{'e', 'n', 't', 'r', 'y', 'p', 'a', 's', 's'},
                   new java.security.cert.Certificate[]{PKCertificate});

privateKS.store( new FileOutputStream(keystoreFile), "keyStorePass".toCharArray());

Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

This is a very interesting marketing strategy.  A guy walks into an into an interview and  highlights his negatives.

As I look over my copy of Thompson's application, I mentally reduce his chances from minuscule to nonexistent. I glance at my watch. I've got an early flight. I wonder how long it will take my compatriots to blow poor Thompson off.
"So why should we hire you, Mr. Thompson?" the area manager asks, starting with the question she usually finishes with.
Thompson smiles.
"I'm 53 years old," he says without hesitation. "I'm not pretty. I've been unemployed for almost five months—ever since my last company went belly-up. I've got no experience in your industry. If you take a look at my application you'll see that there's a checkmark next to the yes on that question about whether or not I've ever been convicted of a felony. I've applied for any number of other jobs and no one else will hire me." He looks at us each in turn while he's slowly ticking off these points on his fingers, as confidently as if he were explaining his Harvard MBA, his Olympic gold medals and his seven years as CEO of General Motors. "So let me tell you why I'm the best possible candidate you're ever going to find for this position."
And that's exactly what he proceeds to do—demonstrating the poise and assurance and experience he'd gained in those 53 years.
"If you hire me, I can't afford not to succeed!" he tells us with passion and conviction. "I don't have the option of being able to move on to greener pastures—or even brown pastures—when the job gets too grueling. I'm 100 percent committed. As locked into this position as I was locked into that jail cell 35 years ago. And if you'll notice that's where I earned the most of the credits for my college degree. I never wanted a Master's, so I've made sure I've never had to go back. But what I learned in that place—the formal and the informal training—has a lot to do with why I've been so successful at every job I've had since then."

Read the full article here.

http://www.evancarmichael.com/Sales/372/Making-the-Skeleton-Dance-Bragging-about-the-Negatives.html

U.S. troops pulled a man alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Haiti's destroyed capital on Tuesday, two weeks after a massive earthquake rattled the country.

The 35-year-old man, covered in dust and dressed only in underpants, was carried out from the ruins of a building in downtown Port-au-Prince and was driven off for medical treatment. He did not appear to have any serious injuries.

The rescue, exactly 14 days after the magnitude-7.0 earthquake killed as many as 200,000 people, came as the U.S.-led relief effort was focused on getting help to hundreds of thousands of survivors left homeless, hungry and injured.

Read more

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The WSO2 Gadget Server is a new kind of Enterprise Portal that is designed around SOA and pure Web technologies. The Gadget Server is based around the Google Gadget Specification, a lightweight open specification for web and AJAX portlets. Gadgets are already heavily used on the Web with Google's own iGoogle personalized homepage used by millions, and hundreds of available gadgets freely available on the web. In particular, the Gadget specification is based on well-known languages (just XML, HTML and JavaScript), meaning that the Gadget Server is effective technology for Java, .NET and LAMP approaches alike.

See the Gadget Server webinar slides here.

2010-01-27T05:04:59Z 2010-01-27T05:02:00Z Sami noreply@blogger.com http://www.blogger.com/profile/00210607048713861579 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575613945535936457 Sami noreply@blogger.com http://www.blogger.com/profile/00210607048713861579 Everything form engineering, architecture, SOA, WOA, SOAP, REST, economy to general life. 2010-03-07T13:20:10Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575613945535936457.post-3984850419484343615

MR is winning. That is not that surprising.

However, the margin he is winning by is very surprising.

2010-01-27T03:18:40Z 2010-01-27T02:48:00Z Sami noreply@blogger.com http://www.blogger.com/profile/00210607048713861579 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575613945535936457 Sami noreply@blogger.com http://www.blogger.com/profile/00210607048713861579 Everything form engineering, architecture, SOA, WOA, SOAP, REST, economy to general life. 2010-03-03T22:53:05Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575613945535936457.post-89445276887296183

Peaceful, free and fair.

SF did not even vote. So if MR wins by 1 :P

I still do not understand why some of these people hang around the polling station after voting.

There were plenty of people around even at 3.55 pm, five minutes to finish the poll.

At least another four years of the country is decided by now.

Now to the next poll..who will be the president in another 4/6 years? BR? NR? or SR?

2010-01-26T14:04:53Z 2010-01-26T13:58:00Z Sami noreply@blogger.com http://www.blogger.com/profile/00210607048713861579 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575613945535936457 Sami noreply@blogger.com http://www.blogger.com/profile/00210607048713861579 Everything form engineering, architecture, SOA, WOA, SOAP, REST, economy to general life. 2010-03-02T19:24:01Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575613945535936457.post-7086261101820382014

Looks like the turnout going to be good.

I see long queues in all three polling stations that I saw, riding around. (No I am not an election observer ;) )

Good! Whatever the outcome is, let the majority decide.

And in our area, things are very calm.

2010-01-26T05:42:51Z 2010-01-26T05:36:00Z Sami noreply@blogger.com http://www.blogger.com/profile/00210607048713861579 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575613945535936457 Sami noreply@blogger.com http://www.blogger.com/profile/00210607048713861579 Everything form engineering, architecture, SOA, WOA, SOAP, REST, economy to general life. 2010-02-27T04:03:51Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575613945535936457.post-2430644981262708353

Looking at 2005 results, it will be a very close one.

While it looks like MR will win, the divide will be very marginal.

Had MR done little bit to curb corruption, he would have won easily - but keeping people like the "Kudu Gamunu" he has done himself more harm than good.

To be frank, I have no idea what SF will do if he wins. But it does not matter much as it is very unlikely he would win. However, SF seems more genuine compared to the typical politician that MR is. The problem is the bunch of idiots around SF.

The real problem is, there is none out of the whole lot in this contest that is going to address the real problems, like the price of rice, like the debacle in education system. The whole campaign was based on FUD and mud. After all, we are a very high literate nation, but not an educated one or even not that thinking type for that matter. If you look at the ground level, even the educated ones are debating in two camps, MR vs SF, the the loyal and not-loyal, the purple and green+red. There is no third eye, there is no view in a direction outside these.

The question in the air is who will win, SF or MR. However, what about people? Will they win? What about the general public? The story goes, "every politician is corrupted; they will take commissions - 10% is standard". You cannot fix this system etc. etc. Today, 15 million will vote to select one, and few around him will eat up the whole thing. Then the 15 million will grumble and mumble till the next election and would do the same thing again. If we are to develop as a nation, this needs to change (change not like Obaba, though, which is NATO). Someone needs to take initiative.

2010-01-25T23:27:03Z 2010-01-25T23:11:00Z Sami noreply@blogger.com http://www.blogger.com/profile/00210607048713861579 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575613945535936457 Sami noreply@blogger.com http://www.blogger.com/profile/00210607048713861579 Everything form engineering, architecture, SOA, WOA, SOAP, REST, economy to general life. 2010-02-27T04:03:51Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575613945535936457.post-8463738910003201412

“Agility” is more than just a buzz word. The ability to be agile ensures enterprises to gain a competitive advantage. The right decisions made at the right time by the right people is the key to success. And both IT as well as business domain experts understand the need to respond to the latest trends in a proactive manner.

WSO2's new Business Activity Monitor - WSO2 BAM, is the ideal tool that is not only useful for business users but also IT personal to monitor key performance indicators that govern the success of their enterprise. The built in dashboards and reports along with analytical capabilities of historical data, empower users to make the right tactical and strategic decisions.

This webinar, will enlighten you on how to exercise business activity monitoring with your SOA deployments to implement a complete feedback life-cycle in your SOA.

2010-01-22T06:51:57Z 2010-01-22T06:49:00Z Sami noreply@blogger.com http://www.blogger.com/profile/00210607048713861579 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575613945535936457 Sami noreply@blogger.com http://www.blogger.com/profile/00210607048713861579 Everything form engineering, architecture, SOA, WOA, SOAP, REST, economy to general life. 2010-02-17T03:20:05Z http://isurues.wordpress.com/?p=199

I’ve started a series of articles on JAX-WS development with WSAS. The first one here, talks about the basics and fundamentals of JAX-WS development. I’ve written some areas of this topic in my previous posts in this blog. But this article brings all together and provides a very easy to follow approach to develop JAX-WS [...]

I’ve started a series of articles on JAX-WS development with WSAS. The first one here, talks about the basics and fundamentals of JAX-WS development. I’ve written some areas of this topic in my previous posts in this blog. But this article brings all together and provides a very easy to follow approach to develop JAX-WS services with WSAS. There will be few more articles coming out on JAX-WS client side development, MTOM support, WS-Security etc. So stay tuned. I’ll post everything on this blog once those articles will be published.

2010-01-21T05:02:15Z isurues http://isurues.wordpress.com http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/d09945e8e3fbaf54e4d18c8820509b55?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png This is all about my experiences and my technical career 2010-02-13T16:30:36Z