Another great tool that I like to use is called TCPView by Sysinternals. It's a windows-based program that displays ALL of the port activity on your box. It traps the data in real-time so as ports open, the lines turn green and as the ports are no longer used, they turn red. So, fire up workflow and watch the various ports come and go!

This is probably one of the busiest travel weeks of the year. Usually, I try to find ways to avoid traveling by taking vacation days. This year is different. My travel week started out yesterday by flying to Washington DC. Then today, off to Portland, Oregon. On Wednesday, I return to Washington DC. On Thursday, it's back home again in Orlando, FL. Of course, this isn't the end of my

No matter how much time you spend on requirements, they are never done.

The iText classes are very useful for people who need to generate read-only, platform independent documents containing text, lists, tables and images in PDF format. This new build requires the 1.4 or higher JVM version. There have been a number of references to iText on wmusers. Download now!

There's been a number of posts recently referring to "Where is the data stored" in the webMethods schema. I've seen questions and queries in the past relating to the "unpublished" webMethods schema. No one at webMethods will speak out about how the schema works, what's in it and how, when, it grows and for what reason. My current project requires the use of data modeling tools. So, I've

I hate working in the government space. Most people who know me only wonder why I am working at my current contract. I also wonder. In 2004 and early 2005, I sub-contracted to CGI-AMS at USAID (Washington DC) and completed most of the webMethods work. Government work is predictable, slow and plodding. On the other hand, commercial work is usually characterized by a fast-paced, no-nonsense

I just have to sit here and babble on about some code that I acquired from a comrade in China. I can't just do an honorable mention, I have to go outright and stand up and shout: Terry Liu, this is the neatest code I've seen in a long long time (hey, this isn't dog years, this is webMethods years..) Terry is a webMethods Architect and Lead in our Shanghai Global Development Center and he

This is a late post to my Blog, but I wanted to note some interesting events surrounding Integration World 2005. Upon my arrival, I met with Mark Carlson and Chris Linton for dinner. I'd never physically met Chris, so this was an added bonus. The show reminded me just how small the webMethods community can be. There were probably 700-800 participants at the show. I had no trouble running

In the course of architecting a solution to a business problem, it is inevitable that business and technology will cross paths. I've found that in large government organizations, often the left hand, right hand and the brain are not connected. This makes integration work very difficult. Especially when you are trying to nail down standards for authentication, security strategy and firewall