On the last day of 2014 I managed to squeeze in the final touches to storing task execution status entries and periodic cleanup of such entries in Message Cowboy. For those not familiar with Message Cowboy, please refer to the Github project page. Task execution status entries indicate the result of the execution of a… Read More »
JBoss Tattletale is not a new tool, in fact the latest version was released about three years ago and nothing has happened in the Git repository since. It still, to my knowledge, the best free tool to discover dependencies, relations and even collisions between dependencies. In this article I will show how to use JBoss… Read More »
I have moved the blog to new hosting, since I have had a feeling that the previous place was a tad bit slow. Hope this place will be better. My apologies for the downtime earlier today – it was my first time migrating a WordPress blog and I also had to redirect the domain name,… Read More »
In this post I want to share a Python script I have created that refactors a user-defined function in an Altova MapForce mapping to a library (mapping) file while retaining all the instances of the function in the mapping and their connections to other parts. The use case for this is when you have several… Read More »
I have used digital certificates for quite some time without actually knowing how things work, for instance when a HTTPS connection is established between a client and a server. My knowledge was limited to a set of procedures like “put the truststore here and insert the appropriate password there and things will work”. In this… Read More »
I am currently taking a course in Python at Coursera.org called “Programming for Everybody“. This is a beginner’s programming course using the Python language. “What on earth is this man doing in a beginner’s programming course?” you may ask. Please bear with me for a moment and I hope you will understand. First of all,… Read More »
In this article I am going to show how to unit test a HTTPS endpoint using Apache HttpClient. In addition I will show how to set up a HTTPS endpoint using the Mule ESB as a mock HTTPS server. The example in this article is limited to showing how the client will assert the identity… Read More »
Very Briefly for the Impatient Java code generated by Altova MapForce in the “com.altova” package and sub-packages may differ between different mappings. It is not possible to create a common library and reuse it between different mappings without risking errors. The Slightly Longer Version At the office we use Altova’s MapForce to create mappings and… Read More »
Remote JMX Monitoring of a Mule Instance In this post I will describe how to enable monitoring of a remote Mule instance using JMX. In addition I will also enable the MX4J web interface that will expose the JMX properties of the Mule instance in a web application and I will install the Jolokia Mule… Read More »
Much to my surprise, Petter Nordlander implemented support for using Apache Camel as the engine of the transport service in Message Cowboy. As of today, you have to chose either Mule or Camel as the engine of the transport service, but it should be possible to have two instances of the transport service going at… Read More »