Reliable restart of the weblogic server

Everyone doing CI using an application server knows the problem: After some time you get OutOfMemoryError because of the excessive deployments. The solution for this is to restart the application server periodically. But before you can start the application server, you must be sure to shut the application server down. This can be done for […]

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OSB: Configurable basic authentication

Basic authentication is still a very common approach for securing web services. It is widely supported and can be tested with a browser. If used over a HTTPS connection also the credentials are encrypted. To use basic authentication the usual way with OSB it is necessary to select ‘Basic’ at the authentication section and a […]

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OSB: Configuration with custom XQuery functions

The OSB supports a mechanism of customization. Unfortunately this mechanism is very limited and is not able to change all values. There are hundreds of situations where some kind of configuration is needed and which can’t be solved with customization: A configurable value need to be added to a request Username and password can’t be […]

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OSB: Using current Eclipse version for development

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OSB: Java Callout with XML input and output parameter

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OSB: Deleting corrupt projects

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OSB: Using Tuxedo transport with eclipse development environment

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OSB: Creating meaningful SOAP exceptions

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