OSB thread management across LOCAL Proxy Service invocation
I grew in the faith that a Publish (one way) operation would be carried in a separate thread form the calling thread, even much so when you use QoS = Best Effort and no transactions. Here...
View Articleyahoo email forwarding not working
Recently yahoo apparently had big trouble with a new release, of which I have been a victim. No more email forwarded to my gmail account for some 15 days, leaving me really puzzled "hey, why nobody is...
View ArticleWLST: expand the PYTHONPATH
Official doc here: http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/modules.html#the-module-search-path I run this test: /opt/oracle/fmw11_1_1_5/osb/common/bin/wlst.shwls:/offline> print...
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Book: Hacking Linux Exposed
Once you skip the first 40 pages of usual publisher blablabla / what a waste of paper! / you will be impressed by the clarity and conciseness of the exposition. Bri Hatch is a first class technical...
View Articlewlst redirect
sometimes we don't want to clutter the stdout with the result of a ls(): http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E15051_01/wls/docs103/config_scripting/using_WLST.html#wp1094015 This works quite well:...
View ArticleMegalopolis - Shenzhen
A great documentary by RAI 3 on China's "miracle" city ShenzhenUnfortunately there are no English captions... the music seems taken from the Quatsi Trilogy and quotations from Neuromancer
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JMXTrans and Graphite: getting started
You can achieve very decent monitoring of a Java application - including the JVM itself - with jmxtrans and graphite .No more horrible hand-crafted tool to extract and chart JMS data.A TRANS in Italian...
View Articleyum fails installing git on RHEL: There was an error communicating with RHN
yum install git-coreLoaded plugins: product-id, rhnplugin, securityThere was an error communicating with RHN.RHN Satellite or RHN Classic support will be disabled.Error communicating with server. The...
View ArticleOSB: WLST to enable monitoring on Proxy Services
If there is something boring is having to manually enable/disable monitoring at Pipeline/STage/Action level on Proxy/Business services, with same or different aggregation interval. Unfortunately OSB...
View Articlegit clone failing with Failed connect to github.com:443
On my RHEL box I tried: git clone https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web.gitInitialized empty Git repository in /home/vagrant/graphite-web/.git/and it was hanging and finally giving HTTP...
View Articlebash scripts organized with rerun
A small "rerun tutorial" or "getting started with rerun".Rerun wiki: https://github.com/rerun/rerun/wikiDownload the rpm here#remember to do export http_proxy=http://myuser:mypw@proxy.acme.com:8080...
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Book: Anatomy of Fascism, by Paxton
Those soul who have been mesmerized by the likes of Orwell's "1984" or Huxley's "Brave New World", will appreciate the unrelenting rationalism by which Paxton dissect the phenomenon of Fascism, delving...
View Articletar gzip exclude folder
Rule n.1: never run tar inside the same folder you are tarring: tar will include the tar-file that it's creating... CRAZY! Rule n. 2: --exclude works only if it's the first parameter after tar... IN...
View ArticleCalling an Oracle Stored Procedure in Java or in Python
I needed to schedule the execution of a Stored Procedure from a cron job.... somebody advised me to use a Java class to do that. It proved to be really cumbersome... I have followed this example and...
View ArticlePuppet instant weblogic installation module in 30 seconds
define weblogic($user = 'soa') { $optpath = '/opt' $nmPort = '5556' $oracle_home = "${optpath}/oracle" $user_home = '/home/' $bea_home = "${oracle_home}/fmw11_1_1_5" $java_home =...
View ArticleBing, one more reason to hate Microsoft (just in case you didn't have already...
Tonight I carelessly run a "Windows Update install all" and, much with my dismay, I found it installed Bing Desktop, it messed with my desktop background, with my Firefox settings (gmail opened each...
View ArticleThread Deadlock on OSB today
Strange, I have never seen this before... maybe it's because 2 people with the same userid were using the console at the same time....
View ArticleWLST reading a property file
thepropertyfile is a regular property file: bla=value1mumble=value2=3 This function handles also the case where a value contains a = sign def getProperties(thepropertyfile): properties = dict() for...
View ArticleInstalling WebLogic: no space left on device
if you run the generic installer, be aware that it will unzip a load of stuff in the /tmp directory. You might get a "no space left on device". Run "df -m" to check how much space you have on /tmp... I...
View ArticleMaven hell as usual: No connector available ...
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin:2.7:deploy (default-deploy) on project AcmeScripts: Failed to deploy artifacts/metadata: No connector available to access...
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