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Today is a historic day
In a happy coincidence, today is not only inauguration day for America's first African-American president but also the national holiday celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
It is the fourth such holiday since the civil rights activist's death that the occupant of the White House is of African-American descent. And that is at once the splendid and tragic core of Dr. King's life:
Without his courage and leadership, without his inspiration of others, a President Barack Obama could not have happened.
Most of the population doesn't remember dogs being set on blacks, lynchings or segregated schools, restaurants and even water fountains.
A whole segment of our society was denigrated daily until Dr. King and his followers pursued the "dream" of a society where everyone was treated equally. They endured the attack dogs, beatings, jailings and even murders until society as a whole couldn't stomach the treatment anymore.
In truth, Dr. King's nonviolent approach and stubborn civility shamed white society into finally treating fellow citizens as human beings.
And, today Barack Obama will lead the celebration of Dr. King's life. President Barack Obama. Beginning his second term as the leader of the free world.
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free salad bar from 6-8pm, free internet access in the room
small room for this price
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The experience and location
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When checking in got ignored at reception as there was a group coming in.
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The following article is an excerpt from J2EE Connector Architecture and Enterprise Application Integration by Rahul Sharma, Beth Stearns, and Tony Ng. Addison-Wesley, 2001.
Tools make the difference when you want to apply architecture to application development. Tools turn architecture into products. In this section, you will see the practical aspects of the J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA) by using JCA-based tools from IBM to build, test, deploy, and run a J2EE enterprise bean application. Let's begin with a brief overview of the Enterprise Access Builder (EAB) feature in IBM's VisualAge® for JavaTM, Enterprise Edition, Version 4.0. EAB contains the JCA-based tools that we will use to build our application.
Enterprise Access Builder (EAB) 101
To an application developer, a connector is a set of related classes that lets an application access business logic and data in an Enterprise Information System (EIS). A simple analogy is to think of these connector classes collectively as a pipeline that allows you to flow request and response data between your application and the EIS.
In Figure 1 below, the connector classes are between the application classes and the server with the EIS, in this case a CICS® transaction server. In VisualAge for Java, the connector classes are subset into the EAB classes, which interact with your application, and the specific connector classes, in this case the CICS connector classes. When we say EAB classes, we mean the classes generated by using the EAB tools and EAB run-time libraries. Note that an application never directly accesses specific connector classes.
Figure 1. Application, connector, and EIS relationship
This separation means that once you are familiar with the EAB tools, you can develop an application in an identical way for any connector supported by VisualAge for Java, since your application only interacts with the EAB classes. The application that we will develop accesses CICS transactions. But using the same EAB tools we could write an application to access IMSTM transactions, MQSeries® messaging queues, PeopleSoft ERP data, Oracle applications and so on. (For a list of the connectors that come with the product, see Connectors in VisualAge for Java.) Using EAB, then, is a standard way to develop any connector-related application.
JCA application development process
What is the JCA application development process? How does EAB fit into it? Although there are no absolute rules for developing a JCA-based application, Figure 2 below shows a process that many developers using EAB have found effective when creating an application. It begins by developing the application in VisualAge for Java. By developing, we mean using the EAB tools to generate code that can access an EIS through the JCA connector and be called by your application. Once the code is generated, another tool in VisualAge for Java is used to test it. The WebSphere® Test Environment emulates the server, in this case, the WebSphere Application Server.
Testing a JCA-based application before you deploy it is a very good idea. Testing lets you address any problems in your application while still in the development environment. Remember that deployment of an application and setup of that application on a server takes time. You do not want to find errors in your application after you have invested time in deployment because then you must return to the development environment, fix the problems, and redeploy until you get it right. Those who have painfully experienced redeployment will find the WebSphere Test Environment a valuable tool.
Figure 2. JCA application development process
After testing, comes deployment of the application. At this point, you are switching from a development environment to a production environment. How you use your deployed application varies, of course, according to your needs. Any application, however, would need to install the run-time resource adapter at the application server. The run-time resource adapter is packaged in a RAR file. RAR means Resource Adapter Archive file. It contains a deployment descriptor, help files, and the interface, implementation and helper classes of the resource adapter. If you were to develop a Web service from an enterprise bean, as seen in our diagram, the final step would be to access it over the Web.
Overview of the application
Let's walk through how we will build our application. We will follow the standard JCA application development process mentioned previously to develop our application. We will use VisualAge for Java, Enterprise Edition, Version 4.0; WebSphere Application Server, Advanced Edition, Version 4.0; the development version of the CICS ECI connector included in VisualAge for Java; and the CICS ECI connector RAR file included with the CICS Transaction Gateway, Version 4.0. We will develop and run our application on Windows© 2000 Professional. Our application will call a CICS transaction that requires as input a customer number and that will return the name of the customer that matches the customer number. Obviously, it is a simple application, but it will demonstrate the heart of the JCA architecture, which is to interact with EIS systems as if the data on the EIS systems is available in the local application.
We will use the EAB session bean tool to create our enterprise bean. The tool first defines the connection information; that is, the type of connection and configuration. In the next stage, it imports a COBOL file, which defines the input and output data structure for the CICS transaction accessed.
Then records representing COBOL structures are generated in the application; that is, input and output records. The tool handles code generation, data type conversion, "endianess" issues, and optimization. The code generated will, at run time, handle the marshalling and unmarshalling of the different data representation formats used by the application and EIS system. Afterwards, we will use a related editing tool, which can be automatically invoked after record generation, to further specify connection information necessary for the Java Naming and Directory InterfaceTM (JNDI) at run time. With this information, a factory object at run time can generate a connection when needed by the application.
To test our application within VisualAge for Java, that is, before deployment, we will use the WebSphere Test Environment. As its name implies, it emulates an application server within a development environment. Once we know our application works, we will switch to the production environment. We will add the CICS ECI RAR file to the application server. Then we will deploy the application to the application server using another tool. Finally, we will run our application again from the application server.
We will show you all of the above as we step you through our tools. Note that VisualAge for Java comes with similar step-by-step samples that let you try out these JCA-based tools in a safe environment.
Using the EAB session bean tool
Let's begin. Launch the EAB session bean tool from within VisualAge for Java's EJB Development Environment. This environment is an IDE for developing enterprise beans. In the EJB Development Environment, create an EJB group, in order to contain an enterprise bean, and then launch the tool. An initial page gives you the option of migrating a session bean; that is, if you had an existing session bean created in the preceding IBM Common Connector Framework (CCF) architecture, you could migrate it to the JCA architecture at this point. On the first page, shown in Figure 3 below, enter the basic information such as the project, package and the name of the session bean. Also, enter the connection information.
Figure 3. Initial information for the EAB session bean
The connection information is the critical information at
this point. In particular, the choice of a managed connection factory and the
type of managed connection factory affects the subsequent properties that appear
in the tool. The property sheet for connection information, which opens when
you click Edit, is shown in Figure 4 below. You can fill in all the connection
properties immediately or wait until after the code is generated and use the
session bean editor tool. All of the properties are documented in the online
help, if you happen to get lost. The key connection properties are the JNDI-related
information (
res_auth) and the type of managed connection
factory, and its properties specifying the address if the CICS gateway and the
CICS server name.
Figure 4. Connection properties
Eventually you will reach the method page. A method for an EAB session bean is comprised of interaction properties and an input and an output record. Starting with the input record, the session bean tool lets you import an existing COBOL structure to create your input record bean. If you import a COBOL file, it will lead to the page shown in Figure 5 below. In the foreground is the COBOL file.
Figure 5. Importing the COBOL source structure
In the following page, select an option called Generate as
javax.resource.cci.Record interface. This option
means that your input and output record beans will comply with JCA. The other
options shown on that page can impact the performance of your session bean.
The performance implications of these options are discussed in "Connectors in
J2EE" (see Resources). In most cases, the default
options offer the best performance. You are also given the opportunity to change
critical machine-to-machine properties such as code page and endianness.
Completing similar fields generates an output record. The completed input and output record beans, as specified in the method page, are shown in Figure 6 below. The invocation of the getCustomerInfo method would result in the customer number being passed from the application to the input record and then to the EIS. Then customer information would be returned from the EIS in the output record and then to the application. The function called has to be expressed in terms understood by the EIS. In the connector architecture, you do this using an InteractionSpec class. In our application, we specified an ECIInteractionSpec class. The following figure shows how to specify the class.
Figure 6. Method page with interaction to EIS properties
At this point, you generate the session bean. If you had selected to edit the session bean when finished in the first page (see Figure 3 above), you automatically launch the EAB Session Bean editor after generation
Using the session bean editor
Application developers greet visual tools with suspicion. Exactly what is going on under the covers? IBM has tried to strike a balance between those who want a fully automatic code generator and those who want more control over the generated code. Editors are provided so that developers can make modifications to the code after generation. The EAB Session Bean editor, for example, lets you edit the generated session bean. The information is grouped into connection information and methods (input and output records). Review the values you entered when building the session bean, make any changes you wish, and save the session bean. Figure 7 below shows the session bean editor. Now it is time to test, while still in the development stage, that your enterprise bean can in fact get the data expected from the EIS.
Figure 7. EAB session bean editor with connection properties
Testing the application in the WebSphere Test Environment
Once you have built your application with the EAB tools, you need to test it while still in the development environment. As indicated earlier, it's better to verify in the development environment that you can get your data from the EIS than to deploy your application into the production environment and then find out it does not work. IBM created the WebSphere Test Environment for this very reason. As its name implies, it emulates the application server within the VisualAge for Java IDE. Testing does not need to be elaborate, but it should verify that you can get the expected values from the EIS. Also, a test should check for error conditions, such as incorrect input, or failure at the server end, such as failure of a gateway.
Begin in the EJB Development Environment where your previous tool will have created your enterprise bean. Figure 8 below shows the customer enterprise bean we created in the enterprise beans pane. Note that the method, getCustomerInfo, is in the Members pane. Begin to test your enterprise bean by adding that method to the EJB remote interface. Then generate your deployed code, which creates code similar to the code you would actually create if you really had deployed an application to an application server. Then, while still in the EJB Development Environment, generate an access bean for your enterprise bean. The access bean is a simplified client interface to an enterprise bean.
Figure 8. Testing the enterprise bean in the EJB Development Environment
Once everything is ready in the EJB Development Environment, launch the WebSphere Test Environment. This run-time environment emulates the actual application server from within the VisualAge for Java IDE. Figure 9 below shows the console window for the test environment. Your enterprise bean needs the persistent name server to be up and running, as is shown. The persistent name server is necessary to support applications using JNDI. The WebSphere Test Environment has its own database and so it can emulate persistence. Add your enterprise bean to the server configuration, just as you would add an enterprise bean to a regular application server. Optionally, you may wish to set an option that lets you step through code a line at a time. This debugging feature can be extremely helpful when you do experience a failure and need to pinpoint precisely the line that caused it.
Figure 9. WebSphere Test Environment with the Persistent Name Server running
Finally, write some additional simple client code, which creates an input record. In our case, we passed a customer number to the enterprise session bean running in the WebSphere Test Environment. Then, capture the returning output from the CICS server and print the result to the console. A fragment of code for the client bean we created is shown below. The point of the test is to show that your application can access the CICS Transaction Server and return correct values, in this case, the customer's first name.
Context initial = new InitialContext(); Object objref = initial.lookup("MyCustomerBean"); CustomerBeanHome home = (CustomerBeanHome)PortableRemoteObject.narrow(objref, CustomerBeanHome.class); CustomerBean customer = home.create(); // Create an input record CustomerInfoRecord input = new CustomerInfoRecord(); // Pass customer number as input input.setCustomerNumber("12345"); // Get output record CustomerInfoRecord output = customer.getCustomerInfo(input); // Print the first name of the customer System.err.println(output.getFirstName());
Moving your application to the WebSphere Application Server
Once you have developed and tested your application, it is time to move from the development environment to the production environment and put the application onto an application server. Deployment is a two-stage process: first, deploying the RAR file and setting up optimal run-time values at the application server, and second, deploying the application itself.
When deploying the application, you need to export a Java archive file (JAR file) containing the application and the libraries the application accesses. Exporting a JAR file is handled through the EJB Development Environment tools. The JAR file can contain either an individual EAB session bean or a group of session beans. Include in the JAR file all the libraries used by the exported beans that are not provided by the WebSphere Application Server. For example, you will need to include in the archive the generated records representing the COBOL copybooks but not the CICS ECI connector classes.
Deploying the RAR file
A run-time JCA resource adapter is shipped in a Resource Adapter Archive (RAR) file. You need to make that resource adapter accessible to the WebSphere instance running the application. Deployment of the RAR file into WebSphere is done using the WebSphere Administrative Console. From the console menu, select an option to add a J2C resource adapter. Then browse the file system and locate the RAR file. Once the file contents are read, the administrative console displays the properties of the resource adapter as defined by its deployment descriptor. The XML deployment descriptor provides information about the service that the resource adapter is providing, with details such as the properties descriptions and their default values. Figure 10 shows the list of resource adapter properties as described in its XML deployment descriptor.
Figure 10. Resource Adapter properties
You can also view additional information besides the configurable
properties. For example, you can look at version numbers. These numbers tell
you the specification level of the connector architecture and the version of
the EIS necessary for communication. Other information tells you the authentication
mechanism supported. More instructions concerning the libraries used by the
connector are found in the
HowTo.html file contained
in the RAR file.
The next step is to create the instance of the JCA connection factory and configure its properties. The connection factory, as its name implies, provides connections to the EIS. From the menu, select Create J2C Connection Factory and the administrative console tool creates an editable properties set associated with the particular connection factory instance. Specify all the information needed by the resource adapter to connect to the particular instance of the EIS. For the CICS ECI connector, specify at least the ServerName and ConnectionURL properties that determined the CICS server to connect to and the address of the CICS transaction gateway, respectively. These values determine the server and gateway that will be accessed through all the connections created by this instance of the connection factory. The resource adapter documentation provides the details of these two properties and all the other properties.
Next, you can specify the JNDI lookup name, instead of the provided default name, under which the new connection factory instance will be available to the components, as shown in Figure 11 below. The components use the JNDI lookup name to retrieve the instance of the connection factory. The instance is used, in turn, to create a connection to the EIS.
Figure 11. Specifying the JNDI lookup name of the connection factory
Specifying the connection pooling properties
The last step in the deployment of the connection factory instance is to specify the management properties to be used when pooling the physical connections to the EIS. Connection pooling can significantly improve performance, so these values deserve some attention. Typically, a system administrator sets up the values of the properties based on the system requirements, load and availability as shown in Figure 12 below. The properties that can be specified include the following.
Reap time
Interval, in seconds, between runs of the garbage collector. Garbage collection can be disabled by setting Reap Time or Unused Timeout to the default value of 0. The garbage collector discards all connections that have been unused for the time specified by Unused Timeout.
Unused timeout
Interval, in milliseconds, after which the unused connection is discarded. Setting this value to the default value of 0 disables the garbage collector.
Connection timeout
Interval, in milliseconds, after which a ResourceAllocationException is thrown if the maximum number of connections has been reached. If Connection Timeout is set to the default value of 0, the pool manager waits indefinitely until a connection can be allocated; that is, until the number of connections falls below the maximum number of connections or a connection becomes available for reuse.
Maximum connections
Maximum number of connections that can be created by a particular managed connection factory instance. Once this number is reached, no new connections are created and the requester waits or a ResourceAllocationException is thrown. If Maximum Connections is set to the default of 0, the number of connections can grow indefinitely.
Minimum connections
Minimum number of managed connections that should be maintained. If this number is reached, the garbage collector will not discard any managed connections.
Pool name
Name used by the pool manager to group managed connections created by different managed connection factories.
Subpool name
Name used by the pool manager to further subgroup pools of managed connections within a particular pool.
Figure 12. Connection pooling values
Assembling and deploying the application onto the WebSphere Application Server
The first step in assembling and deploying the application is to create the Enterprise Application Archive (EAR file) from the JAR file exported from the development environment. At this time, you can also add Web components such as JSPsTM or HTML files to your EAR file. Using the WebSphere Application Assembly Tool, provide the name for a new EAR file and the location of the JAR file with the application code. Look at the deployment descriptor for your application. You can also modify the deployment descriptor at this point too. Figure 13 below shows the resource references section of the deployment descriptor that describes the resource adapter used by an application.
Figure 13. Resource reference section of the deployment descriptor
The EAR file created by the Application Assembly Tool can now be deployed into the WebSphere Application Server. Using the Administrative Client tool, the Install Enterprise Application wizard will guide you through the steps necessary to deploy your application. Select the WebSphere server, provide your application name, and, finally, add the location of your EAR file. Next, the wizard will take you through several panels, allowing you to specify deployment options for the application. One option, mapping of the resource references to resources, is particularly helpful.
When you create your application, you specify a resource reference
name (
res_ref_name, see Figure 4 above). It is a name used by the application
to look up the instance of the connection factory in the JNDI context at run
time. When the application is deployed, the value of the res-ref-name retrieved
from the deployment descriptor overrides the value you specified during creation
of your application. This allows the deployer, by modifying the deployment descriptor,
to set the lookup name to the value specific to the server on which the application
is deployed. In WebSphere, this can be achieved even easier. The deployment
tool lets you map the
res_ref_name specified in your application to the resource
name on the server without requiring you to modify the deployment descriptor.
Figure 14 below shows the page that lets you perform the mapping operation between
the resource reference of the application and the resource defined on the particular
Figure 14. Mapping resource references
Using the deployed application
You are finished at this point. After deployment, there are several ways to use a session bean that accesses a CICS server. You can access the session bean directly from a client program. You can also provide access to it from a servlet or use it with other enterprise bean components as a part of a more complex business application.
Accessing session beans as Web services
Setting up a session bean as a Web service is a new way of providing easy access to EIS systems. In this section we will show you how a session bean could be made available as a Web service.
The WebSphere Application Server support for the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) protocol lets you expose a session bean as a Web service. Here's how to take advantage of that support with JCA-based applications today. Begin by creating a SOAP deployment descriptor specifying the particular session bean you would like to expose as Web service. The information to include in the deployment descriptor includes the service URN, the list of exposed methods, and the session bean home interface name as well as other information. The deployment descriptors fragment below shows the SOAP deployment descriptor for the session bean we created before:
<isd:service xmlns:isd="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap/deployment" id="urn: customerinfo-service "> <isd:provider type="com.ibm.soap.providers.WASStatelessEJBProvider" scope="Application" methods="getCustomerInfo"> <isd:java class="eabtools/Customer" /> <isd:option key="FullHomeInterfaceName" value="eabtools.CustomerHome" /> <isd:option key="ContextProviderURL" value="iiop://localhost:900" /> <isd:option key="FullContextFactoryName" value="com.ibm.ejs.ns.jndi.CNInitialContextFactory" /> </isd:provider> <isd:faultListener>org.apache.soap.server.DOMFaultListener </isd:faultListener> <isd:mappings> <isd:map xmlns:x=" urn: customerinfo-service " qname="x:customer" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" javaType="eabtools.CustomerRecord" java2XMLClassName= "org.apache.soap.encoding.soapenc.BeanSerializer" xml2JavaClassName= "org.apache.soap.encoding.soapenc.BeanSerializer"/> </isd:mappings> </isd:service>
Finally, use the WebSphere tool, the SOAPEAREnabler, to add the EAR file containing the session bean to the WebSphere SOAP configuration. After WebSphere SOAP is configured with your deployment descriptor and you deploy the EAR file, the session bean connecting to the EIS can be accessed as a Web service.
To describe this service, you will need to use other IBM tools to create the corresponding Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file. The WSDL file below describes the service offered by the server.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <definitions name="exportejb_Service-interface" targetNamespace="http://www.exportejbservice.com/exportejb-interface" xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:tns="http://www.exportejbservice.com/exportejb" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema"> <message name="IngetCustomerInfoRequest"> <part name="meth1_inType1" type="xsd:eabtools.CustomerRecord"/> </message> <message name="OutgetCustomerInfoResponse"> <part name="meth1_outType" type="xsd:eabtools.CustomerRecord"/> </message> <portType name="exportejb_Service"> <operation name="getCustomerInfo"> <input message="IngetCustomerInfoRequest"/> <output message="OutgetCustomerInfoResponse"/> </operation> </portType> <binding name="exportejb_ServiceBinding" type="exportejb_Service"> <soap:binding style="rpc" transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/> <operation name="getCustomerInfo"> <soap:operation soapAction="urn:customerinfo-service"/> <input> <soap:body encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" namespace="urn:customerinfo-service" use="encoded"/> </input> <output> <soap:body encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" namespace="urn:customerinfo-service" use="encoded"/> </output> </operation> </binding> <types> <xsd:schema targetNamespace="http://www.exportejbservice.com/exportejb" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema/"> </xsd:schema> </types> </definitions>
Once you have the WSDL representation of your service, you can make the service available. Availability is achieved by sharing the WSDL file with the intended users of the service. Depending on your service type, you can either directly send the WSDL file to specific users or, if your service is to be used publicly, you can publish its description through a public registry. For example, you could publish publicly using the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) standard registry.
Future directions
The J2EE Connector Architecture makes the J2EE platform the preferred platform for enterprise application integration. In particular, this architecture does an excellent job in making connectors a pluggable system component. It also provides a common client programming model for access to EIS resources. A common client programming model simplifies life for both programmers and tool vendors.
It is important to understand that when the connector architecture discusses EIS's, the discussion is not limited to legacy enterprise systems. We will see the JCA architecture evolve into a service connector architecture for inter and intra enterprise service invocation. Besides extending the run-time architecture itself (inbound connectivity, XML support, provider pluggability, and so forth), it is important that the next version of the JCA architecture provide pluggability into tool environments (that is, metadata, import and generation support).
IBM will continue to play a leading role in the evolution and support of the JCA connector architecture.
We have shown you how to get up and running with the JCA architecture today, using tools that are currently available. Although you could hand-code your own application to access EIS systems, the cost in development and maintenance time is enormous. For example, you would have to code your own Quality of Service (QoS) and you would need to access proprietary EIS interfaces. These tools simplify the process by generating most of the code you will need to access many EIS systems and the code generated is nonproprietary. At run time, the code will handle the marshalling and unmarshalling needed to pass data from your application to the EIS system while maintaining data integrity in all environments.
We have also shown you tools to help in the deployment of your application along with the RAR file to the application server, as you move your application from the development to the production environment. And we have shown how JCA-based applications are suited to the move to XML-based ways of exchanging data. With a few changes to some files, an application becomes a Web service, available publicly or privately for clients requesting this kind of service. Lastly, we have indicated how IBM will lead and support future JCA architecture directions.
Our section ends with a list of the current connectors that come with VisualAge for Java and some references you will find helpful. If you wish to follow IBM's commitment to the JCA architecture and to Java in general, you should bookmark IBM's WebSphere Developer Domain. Technical articles on tools and products that will support the JCA architecture are posted at this popular Web site.
Connectors in VisualAge for Java, Enterprise Edition, Version 4.0
Connector support is an ongoing story. The following list is the current set of connectors available in VisualAge for Java. As indicated earlier, you only need to know how to use the EAB tools in general in order to develop an application for any one of the following connectors.
- CICS ECI and CICS EPI Connectors - access CICS transactions.
- Host-on-Demand (HOD) Connector - accesses 3270, 5250, CICS and VT hosts.
- IMS TOC Connector - accesses IMS transactions.
- J.D. Edwards Connector - accesses Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) data from the JD Edwards OneWorld system.
- MQSeries Connector - accesses MQSeries messaging software.
- Oracle Applications Connector - accesses data from Oracle applications.
- PeopleSoft Connector - accesses ERP data from PeopleSoft systems.
- SAP R/3 Connector - accesses the business object repository in SAP R/3.
We would like to thank Mike Andrea, Sandy Minocha, Kevin Sutter, and Leigh Davidson for their help with this article.
- John Green, Sandy Minocha, and Gary Bist. "Connectors in J2EE," WebSphere Developer Domain Technical Journal, May 2001. This article extends the subjects discussed here with material on managed and non-managed connections, connection pooling, performance recommendations, Quality of Service, JNDI, and other important areas linking connectors with J2EE.
- Richard Monson-Haefel. Enterprise JavaBeansTM. O'Reilly: 1999. Though we have built a session bean with our EAB tool and avoided a discussion on enterprise beans themselves, many developers will want a better understanding of the enterprise bean architecture behind the tool. This book will help.
- Tsutomu Oya, Bob Brown, Martin Smithson, and Tomohiro Taguchi. CCF Connectors and Database Connection Using WebSphere Advanced Edition. IBM Redbooks, 2000. This book looks at other connectors, particularly the IMS and MQSeries connectors. Though based on the previous architecture, Common Connector Framework (CCF), the material is still applicable. Remember that IBM provides migration tools to move CCF applications to J2EE.
- Joaquin Picon, Regis Coqueret, Andreas Hutfless, Gopal Indurkhya, and Martin Weiss. Design and Implement Servlets, JSPs, and EJBs for IBM WebSphere Application Server. IBM Redbooks, 2000. This book looks at enterprise beans and their cousins, servlets and JSPs, from the application server perspective. It covers critical run-time areas such as scalability, caching, and performance tradeoffs.
- Ed Rowan. Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans. John Wiley & Sons: 1999. Another classic book on enterprise bean development with many examples. Look at the new sections on J2EE.
- Irene Seelemann, Cyrus Soleimany, Richard Gregory, and Agnes Lisowska. "Working with the New ERP Connectors Available in VisualAge for Java," VisualAge Developer Domain, September 2001. This article looks at connectors in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) arena. Tools, identical to the ones we have shown, are used to access data in JD Edwards, Oracle applications, and PeopleSoft ERP systems.
The product documentation for VisualAge for Java, Enterprise Edition, Version 4.0, product documentation contains many samples similar to the one shown here. In the online help, look in the Samples section under the Enterprise Access Builder. In the Concepts section, you will find topics about the JCA connector architecture, managed connections, connection pooling, JNDI, and comparisons of JCA with the older Common Connection Framework (CCF) architecture. The Tasks section has topics that show you how to migrate applications coded previously in CCF to JCA, and information on deployment. The online help topics are also available as a compilation in PDF format.
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Willy Nelson???
Yes that is the same Katerine Smith. She was burned alive inside the car of one of the Middle Eastern types the day before she was to testify at the bail hearing for the driver's license fraud case.
A photo ID pass for Sept. 5 found on one of the men charged with fraudulently obtaining a Tennessee driver's license from a Memphis woman gave him access to the six underground levels of the One World Center building. But which tenant hired Sakher 'Rocky' Hammad, 24, to work on its sprinklers is lost, said Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Alan Hicks on Friday.
Hammad told federal authorities that he was working on the sprinklers six days before the twin towers were brought down by terrorists, court testimony revealed this week.
It was widely reported in the media that the spinkler systems did not work in the Towers on 9-11.No conclusion has been made as to how the sprinkler systems were disabled in the WTC towers.
I never heard about this! It was an act of terror, was it not? It sure didn't get a lot of press coverage. She died the same as the burn victims in the WTC.
Well, maybe this attorney's untimely demise will discourage potential lawyer types from the profession. One can hope ...
It was widely reported in the media that the spinkler systems did not work in the Towers on 9-11.No conclusion has been made as to how the sprinkler systems were disabled in the WTC towers.
Who wrote the work order?
You are right. I forgot her complicity in the fraud -- I initially thought she was innocent, and merely processed fraudulent documents for the licenses, unaware that they were fraudulent.
I tend to doubt she knew what they were planning, though. Maybe they just found her price, and she couldn't say no. In any case, a horrible way to die.
Not for personal use & all that jazz.
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
May 21, 2002 Tuesday Final Edition
NEWS; Pg. A1
Lawrence Buser
After four men with ties to the Middle East pleaded guilty Monday in a Tennessee driver's license fraud case, new questions arose about a central figure in the case - a state driver's license examiner who died in a mysterious, fiery car wreck just days after her arrest.
The case drew national attention earlier this year because of the still-unsolved death of Katherine Smith and the revelation one of the defendants, a naturalized plumber from Jordan living in New York, had been in the World Trade Center days before the twin towers were destroyed by hijacked airliners.
In a hearing Monday morning before U.S. Dist. Judge Bernice Donald, federal prosecutors said, however, had the cases gone to trial, there would have been no evidence presented that the defendants were involved in terrorist activities or in Smith's Feb. 10 death on U.S. 72 in Fayette County. Federal and state authorities said Monday that the wreck remains under investigation but the fire in the car was set and the crash did not cause Smith's death.
Tennessee Highway Patrol Capt. Jimmy Erwin said Monday that he is waiting on autopsy test results from the Medical Examiner's Office before the cause of death is officially determined.
He said neither suicide nor homicide has been ruled out.
Smith, a state employee for 27 years, had been charged with conspiring to provide driver's licenses fraudulently as part of a scheme involving the other defendants.
A handwritten letter by Smith dated Feb. 5 - the day of her arrest - was included in pretrial discovery material the government provided to defense attorneys.
After the hearing, defense attorney Jeffrey Jones showed the letter to several reporters.
Asked if the letter appeared to be a suicide note, Jones said, "That's certainly one interpretation."
Written on green flowered stationery headed "Gardening Angel," the note read: "I Katherine Smith tried to help Kal. He didn't give me any money. He was I thought my friend. I was trying to help him. Now I've lost everything and am called a liar when I was telling the truth. I can't live without any honor. I live a lonely life true enough but I didn't lie to the FBI. Forgive me John. Forgive me Vernola. I can't live this way. I love you both and wish and pray for the best. Love Mama."
The names in the letter, apparently discovered during the FBI's investigation, refer to alleged conspiracy ringleader Khaled Odtllah, who is known as "Kal," and Smith's son and daughter, John Barton IV and Vernola Buchanan.
Pleading guilty to the one-count conspiracy indictment Monday were Odtllah, 31, a Cordova resident from Jerusalem; Mostafa Said Abou-Shahin, 26, a carpenter from Egypt; Sakher A. Hammad, 24, a New York plumber from Jordan and the lone defendant who is an American citizen, and his cousin Abdelmuhsen Mahmid Hammad, 32, also a plumber living in New York.
A fifth defendant, Mohammed A. Fares, pleaded guilty earlier this month. Fares has a Venezuelan passport, but his family is from Lebanon.
Each faces a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine and a minimum of immediate probation when sentenced in June and August by Donald. Those who are not citizens also face the possibility of deportation and remain in federal custody.
A minor teenager arrested in the case was handled in Juvenile Court.
Federal prosecutor Tim DiScenza said Odtllah, who had been living here for two years, provided Tennessee driver's licenses to illegal immigrants for about $1,000 each.
The Hammads of New York found clients and drove them to Memphis where Smith would issue them driver's licenses without requiring proper documentation, he said.
He said Tennessee was vulnerable to such a scheme because the state does not require immigrants to provide a Social Security number.
The Hammads in February drove Fares and Abou-Shahin and the juvenile to Memphis from New York to get four licenses. They met with Odtllah here and were arrested as they attempted to obtain licenses at the Summer Avenue testing station.
FBI agents and the highway patrol had set up surveillance after receiving a tip from the New York FBI office.
During their separate guilty pleas Monday, at least two of the defendants asked their attorneys to emphasize that they are not being accused of terrorist activity. DiScenza then made a statement to that effect.
Jones, who represents Sakher Hammad, said the World Trade Center visitor's pass found in his client's wallet was needed because he had worked on the center's sprinkler system plumbing.
He said Hammad also had a card that indicated he had donated money to the victims of the Sept. 11 attack.
"My guy's a fairly conservative guy," Jones said.
The guilty pleas were straightforward and routine for the most part as Donald asked each man, some requiring Arabic interpreters, if he was pleading voluntarily and understood the implications.
She also asked each defendant why he was pleading guilty, drawing tearful responses from Odtllah who said, "I made mistake. I didn't know I was breaking the law. I didn't mean to break the law."
Abdelmuhsen Mahmid Hammad also wept when asked about his residency in New York, where he had been living with his wife and three U.S.-born children.
"I'm just concerned about my wife," he said through an interpreter.
By Yolanda Jones
June 3, 2002
An attacker ambushed Shelby County Medical Examiner Dr. O. C. Smith Saturday night, wrapped him from head to toe in barbed wire and strapped a bomb to his body.
Police said Smith left his office at about 10 and was headed to the parking lot when someone threw an acid-like substance in his face to subdue him.
For nearly three hours, he was unable to move or shout for help because of the barbed wire in his mouth.
A security guard spotted Smith's vehicle in the parking lot, became suspicious and found Smith about 12:30 a.m. Sunday outside the office building in the medical center.
The police bomb squad was called to free Smith because of the device bound to his body. Smith was taken to the Regional Medical Center at Memphis and treated for cuts, bruises and a chemical burn to his face.
Released early Sunday, Smith went back to his office to help investigators work the case.
"This is his character," said Deputy Chief R. G. Wright of the Memphis police. "He is always willing to help out and always go the extra mile no matter what."
Sunday, police had more questions than answers. "Yes, this was a functioning device that could have caused serious injuries or killed somebody," said Gene Marquez, resident agent in charge of the federal Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms office in Memphis.
This is the second time in the last three months a bomb or explosive device has been left on the doorstep of the Shelby County Regional Forensic Center, which houses the morgue and the Medical Examiner's Office.
On March 13, a bomb and two smaller explosive-type devices were found in a stairwell of the building at 1060 Madison.
At the time, local and federal agents couldn't say for sure if Smith and his staff were the targets. Saturday's attack on Smith left police with little doubt about the focus of the attack but no answers as to why.
"We don't know a motive and aren't making any assumptions as to why anyone would want to hurt Dr. Smith," said Wright.
During a noon press conference, Memphis police and ATF agents wouldn't disclose specifics of the investigation such as information about a suspect or details about the device. Authorities said Smith was found on an outside stairway on the west side of the forensic center building. It was near the area where the bomb and other devices were found in March.
"All we can say is the components of this device are similar to the one found in March," said Marquez. "Both are not very sophisticated and are very similar, but until we finish the investigation we can't say if the two are connected."
When the device was removed from Smith, police X-rayed it to see if it was an explosive device. When they determined it was a bomb, they sent it to the ATF lab in Atlanta for further analysis.
Today, the ATF's National Response Team, made up of agents who are experts on explosive devices and who specialize in profiling bombers, will arrive in Memphis.
"This is the cream of the cream," Marquez said. "We are planning to saturate this investigation and team up with local police on this matter immediately."
The ATF also is offering a $5,000 reward for information about the case.
The Commercial Appeal could not reach Smith, who was placed under heavy security, for comment.
Smith, 49, is one of several local forensic science specialists who help investigate criminal cases.
Last year, anonymous letters threatened harm to Smith, a prosecution witness in the long-running case of convicted Memphis cop killer Philip Workman.
Smith said at the time that he had not received any letters himself but was taking the threats "very seriously."
Workman's attorneys had challenged the validity of Smith's ballistics and laboratory tests. Smith said the tests proved Workman's bullet killed Memphis police Lt. Ronald Oliver in 1981.
In one letter, the writer called Smith a liar and said, "Long have I waited for my HOLY ORDER to fight against the DOCTOR-KILLER abortionists but now I know OUR LORD was saving me for something larger."
"I know Dr. Smith has worked several big cases, but I can't imagine who would want to hurt him," said Wright. "That is what we are working on now to find out."
Known for his precision and thorough work, Smith is highly regarded by police and prosecutors and defense attorneys as well.
"In the 1994 case where we found three homicide victims hidden in the cemetery, Dr. Smith was right there down in the graves working hard like always," said Wright.
Police are asking anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers at 528-CASH or the ATF hotline at (888) ATF-BOMB.
- Yolanda Jones: 529-2380
At the time of the attack, Smith's office had not yet made a determination for Katherine Smith's death, homicide vs. suicide. How many women burn themselves alive with gasoline in a suicide?
He said neither suicide nor homicide has been ruled out.
Thanks for the article.
These guys never quit. I think this is another smoke screen, like domestic terrorists upset about abortion were mailing the anthrax.
And then start driving.
The position is known as the District Attorney General in Memphis/Shelby County. The current officeholder is Bill Gibbons.
Memphis, TN - News Channel 3 has learned that the man shot and killed in a North Main street parking deck this morning was Memphis attorney Robert M. Friedman. Friedman is a senior partner of the Law Offices of Friedman, Sissman, and Heaton, P.C. and was apparently on his way to work when he was shot and killed on the 4th floor of the parking deck at 100 North Main.
Police say Friedman had just gotten out of his car, when a man walked up and shot him. Police are looking for the suspect in the shooting. He's described as a black man, with braids, wearing a black pin stripe suit, and was last seen running west on Jefferson before getting on a Mata bus.
Oh. That helps explain things. Bio info here:
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Teased Segment - Fair Trial. Attorney of one of the Middle Eastern men accused of driver's license scam worried about fair trail after September 11th.
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Interview - Robert Friedman (Attorney).
Then the agents searched a fifth man, Sakhera Hammad of New York, whom the men identified as their second contact, and found an alarming piece of paper. Mr. Hammad had a worker's pass to the World Trade Center dated Sept. 5. Suddenly, the case became a possible terrorist plot.
In a telephone interview on Saturday, Mr. Hammad's father, Peter Hansen, said his son was a plumber, and he provided a letter he said he had obtained from his son's employer attesting to his work at the trade center. In the letter, dated Feb. 13, Sergei Denko, president of Denko Mechanical, said Mr. Hammad had been working for his company in the basement garage area of 1 World Trade Center.
"He was there for a couple of days," Mr. Denko said in an interview. ____________________________________________________
We could ask Mr. Denko who wrote the work order but he will be hard to find. He filed incorporation papers under the alias Sergei Denko, but if you visit the address filed with the State of New York for Denko Mechanical you will find his name is Sergei Davidenko. Additionally, the address given for Denko Mechanical is a residential apartment in an apartment building. Unusual for a plumbing company.
I will challenge anyone to find a U.S. white page or U.S. yellow page listing for the Middle Eastearn plumber Hammad's employeer, Denko Mechanical. I have already found the Corporation filing with the State of New York. If anyone is interested, I will send a $25.00 money order as a donation to FreeRepublic in honor of the first one to reply to me with the information.
DOS Process (Address to which DOS will mail process if accepted on behalf of the entity)
Chairman or Chief Executive Officer
Registered Agent
Just kinda curious here, you know my focus on name linkage, but I wonder if this Dr.O.C. Smith is related to I.C. Smith (FBI, Retired, Writing a Book ;-)?
Didn't SAY he was black.
Have you tried searching on the name "Sergei Denko?"
The reason I suggested Denko is because one response from the PORT AUTHORITY was that their paperwork was lost in the collapse. Maybe someone should ask Sergei? Sounds like a job for a professional journalist, but I can't find one.
Nothing to see here....move along!
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The State Department on Wednesday said that Iran's selection of a participant in the 1979 hostage crisis to become its next ambassador to the United Nations was "extremely troubling," but insisted the nomination would not derail negotiations over Tehran's nuclear weapons program.
The Iranian government has applied for a visa for Hamid Aboutalebi, a member of a student group that abducted U.S. personnel attached to the embassy in Tehran, triggering a 444-day standoff.
Lawmakers have decried his nomination as an insult and called on the State Department to deny his visa to travel to the United Nations headquarters in New York.
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"Hamid Aboutalebi was a major conspirator in the Iranian hostage crisis and has no business serving as Iran's ambassador to the UN," Schumer told the New York Post.
"This man has no place in the diplomatic process, and the State Department should flat-out deny his visa application. Iran's attempt to appoint Mr. Aboutalebi is a slap in the face to the Americans that were abducted, and their families; it reveals a disdain for the diplomatic process and we should push back in kind."
Harf said the State Department sympathized with those insulted by the nomination.
"Many of those hostages, you know, were State Department people," she said. "And we very much value their service, and we'll keep having that conversation."
But she stopped short of echoing Schumer's characterization of the move as a "slap in the face" and insisted the move would not affect negotiations over Iran's nuclear weapons program.
"I'm not going to describe it that way," Harf said. "Obviously, it's troubling. We'll talk about this with the Iranians. But the nuclear negotiations are separate."
She argued that the U.S. had serious problems with Iranian behavior in a number of realms, including the war in Syria, state-sponsored terrorism and human rights. But, she said, the nuclear issue was "incredibly important" to resolve and viewed as separate from those issues.
"We can only judge them by their actions," Harf said. "On the nuclear issue, they have upheld their commitments. We hope they will continue to."


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|Edward M. Esber, Jr.
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Edward M. Esber, Jr.
A personal computer pioneer who laid the foundation for a revolutionary industry. Esber is credited with being the marketing guru behind two of the personal computer industry's best selling application programs at the dawn of the personal computer revolution; [VisiCalc] and [dBase]. Ed Esber convinced IBM Corporation to take microprocessors seriously, which led to the introduction of the IBM PC using an Intel Microprocessor. Esber later went on to pioneer the marketing of the first software that made buying a personal computer for business viable, VisiCalc. Esber later was the CEO of Ashton Tate, one of the three leading Personal Computer Software companies of the 1980s (along with Lotus and Microsoft). Then, Esber ran the [Creative Labs], the U.S. subsidiary of [Creative Technology]. He is or has sat on the boards of over 30 companies, public, private and educational. Ed Esber is now an Angel Investor investing in exciting new companies in Silicon Valley.
A native of Ohio, Edward M. Esber, Jr. graduated B.S. Computer Engineering degree form Case Institute of Technology (now [Case Western Reserve University]) in 1974. He later earned a M.S. Electrical Engineering from [Syracuse University] in 1976, He then went on to earn a Masters of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School, in 1978.
Early Life[edit]
Esber was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the oldest of eight children and attended public schools in Parma, Ohio. During his undergraduate education, he was one of the primary authors and programmers of a Management Simulation Game used to teach marketing at colleges called IMPS (Industrial Marketing Plan Simulation).
Early Career[edit]
In 1974, Esber went to work for IBM Corporation, where he designed a floating point processor for an IBM minicomputer and worked on products in the Instrument Control Systems Division that included a Textile Color Analyzer and a Film Thickness Analyzer. He convinced IBM Corporation to take seriously the nascent microcomputer chips from Intel and Motorola. He was later tasked with creating and teaching a course to prepare IBM engineers to design with microprocessors. This seminal work led to IBM announcing and shipping the IBM Personal Computer based on an Intel microprocessor in the early 80s. During his career at IBM, he earned his M.S. Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University in 1976. In 1976 he left for [Harvard Business School]] and was tasked with preparing an exploratory report for IBM on the efficacy of controlling energy costs in the home with a personal computer. In 1978, Esber went to work for Texas Instruments in their Consumer Products Division in Lubbock,, Texas working in product marketing on Personal Computers.
In 1979, Dan Flystra recruited Esber to run worldwide sales and marketing for Personal Software (later renamed VisiCorp). Esber became the ninth employee and third shareholder. Esber launched VisiCalc as the first personal computer application software that made buying a personal computer for business viable. He pioneered the distribution and marketing of personal computer software as he and Visicorp launched the first product line of productivity software (VisiCalc, VisiWord, VisiFile, VisiPlot, VisiTrend and VisiDex), the first suite of office software (VisiPak) and the first WinTel graphical user interface for IBM compatible PCs (VisiON).
Ashton Tate[edit]
Mr. Esber took over Ashton Tate and made it one of the three leading personal computer software companies of its time (The 1980's PC Software Oligopoly of Ashton Tate, Lotus and MicroSoft). He turned dBase into one of the longest running standards in the personal computer software industry and jointly introduced SQL Server with MicroSoft. During Esber's term as CEO, sales grew from about $40M to $311M. Ashton Tate acquired several companies including Decision Resources, Forefront and InterBase and MultiMate, expanding it's product line of office productivity products for the WinTel platform and introducing two of the most innovative products of their time; FullImpact and FullWrite for Apple Computer's MacIntosh computers.
Creative Labs[edit]
When Mr. Esber joined Creative Labs, the company that brought sound (Sound Blaster) to personal computers, it was viewed as a "market laggard", the "current market share leader', not an innovator (MediaVision was viewed as the leader). Creative's intellectual property was not protected; its relations with Wall Street, the Press and its stockholders had deteriorated; it had few strategic alliances with industry players; there was no product marketing department; no product strategy; no chip strategy; and it had not created a long term strategic plan. Under Esber's leadership and that of the founders, Creative Technology (parent company of Creative Labs), enjoyed a leading position in computer peripherals and upgrades with its product line of Integrated Multimedia technology.
Creative Insights[edit]
Founder of the first "Computer Toys Company", Creative Insights, Inc., and the "Toy Company of the Computer Age." A Computer Toy is a creative, compelling piece of hardware, which plugs into a standard multimedia personal computer and is aimed at a specific purpose, to be brought to life with equally compelling multimedia software, aimed at the same purpose.
Other startups[edit]
After Esber's pioneering work in Personal Computer Software, Esber has been on the leading edge of the integration of computers and multimedia at Creative Labs, the integration of computers, toys and learning at Creative Insights, the integration of computers, communication and telephony at SoloPoint; the mobilization of email and internet access at Poqet Computer, portability of Personal Computers at Poqet Computer and tablet computing at Motion Computing.
The Angels Forum and The Halo Funds[edit]
Esber was a founding member in 1997 of The Angels Forum, a professional, silicon valley based group of angel investors. He also is a member of the management team of The Halo Funds, a venture capital fund focused on early stage, seed investments in medical devices, Web 2.0/SaaS, consumer/retail and green technology companies based in Silicon Valley.
Course Taught[edit]
Esber taught a course entitled "Starting and Running a Successful Startup" at the Weatherhead School of Management of Case Western Reserve University.
Honors and Awards[edit]
AngelsInvestors.org 2001 Angel's Annual Award: Internet/Software BusinessWeek "25 Executives to Watch," April 15, 1988. Computer Reseller News 1985&1986, "Industry's 25 Most Influential Execs." Esquire Magazine 1986 Register Honoree, Business and Industry. So Ca Executive "The Southland's 100 Outstanding Leaders in 1986."
Esber currently sits on the boards of Quantum Corporation, Panterra Networks and is co-chair of the emeriti trustee committee of Case Western Reserve University. In the past Esber has served on the boards of Activision, Ashton Tate, SonicBlue. Pansophic Systems, Integrated Circuits System Technology and many private companies.
Personal life[edit]
Esber is married to Margaret (Peggy) Esber and resides in Los Altos Hills. He has three children.
External links[edit]
Ed Esber's Website [1] Quantum Corporation Website [2] Panterra Networks Website [3] The Angels Forum Website [4] The Halo Funds Website [5] Software History Museum Oral History [6]


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