IBM Support Browser Toolbars

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/support/toolbar/

IBM Websphere on Twitter

Here we are : http://twitter.com/IBM_WAS

Post/Update Twitter status snippet (from java)

Snippet to post to twitter. Using sun.misc to avoid introducing another jar (say commons codec). Please feel free to use another Base64 implementation. Rest of the details will remain the same.

import sun.misc.BASE64Encoder;

import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLEncoder;

public class Twitter {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        if (args.length < 3) {
            System.out.println("Twitter <userid> <password> <message>");
            System.exit(-1);
        }

        URL url = new URL("https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml");
        URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();

        connection.setDoInput(true);
        connection.setDoOutput(true);
        connection.setUseCaches(false);

        String authorization = args[0] + ":" + args[1];
        BASE64Encoder encoder = new BASE64Encoder();
        String encoded = new String
                (encoder.encodeBuffer(authorization.getBytes())).trim();
        connection.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic " + encoded);

        OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(
                connection.getOutputStream());
        out.write("status=" + URLEncoder.encode(args[2], "UTF-8"));
        out.close();

        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
                new InputStreamReader(
                        connection.getInputStream()));
        String response;
        while ((response = in.readLine()) != null) {
            System.out.println(response);
        }
        in.close();

    }
}

Technotes about Axis2 and IBM Websphere co-existence

If you are deploying Axis2 in a WAR/EAR under Websphere 6.1 with Web services feature pack or Websphere 7.0, please read the following tech notes:

• T​h​e​ ​A​p​a​c​h​e​ ​A​x​i​s​2​ ​s​e​r​v​l​e​t​ ​i​s​ ​n​o​t​ ​a​c​c​e​s​s​i​b​l​e​ ​a​f​t​e​r​ ​d​e​p​l​o​y​i​n​g​ ​t​h​e​ ​A​p​a​c​h​e​ ​A​x​i​s​2​ ​e​n​g​i​n​e
• D​e​p​l​o​y​i​n​g​ ​a​n​ ​a​p​p​l​i​c​a​t​i​o​n​ ​t​h​a​t​ ​c​o​n​t​a​i​n​s​ ​t​h​e​ ​A​p​a​c​h​e​ ​A​x​i​s​2​ ​r​u​n​t​i​m​e​ ​m​i​g​h​t​ ​c​r​e​a​t​e​ ​a​ ​c​l​a​s​s​ ​c​a​s​t​ ​e​x​c​e​p​t​i​o​n

You can search for newer technotes here:
http://www.ibm.com/support/us/en/

Exceptions like the following:
SRVE0026E: [Servlet Error]-[javax.servlet.UnavailableException: SRVE0201E:
Servlet [org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisServlet]: not a servlet class

java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.OMTextImpl incompatible with org.apache.axiom.om.impl.OMNodeEx

SRVE0100E: Did not realize init()
exception thrown by servlet AxisServlet: java.lang.StackOverflowError

Top 10 WebSphere Trends and Directions (Bonus – skit with David Letterman)

Details here : http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/01/cuomo-websphere-trends-2009

and here : http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/gcuomo

Video on Youtube here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiPQwDkL7hE

Updated XMPP Client for Android

Updated the sources to latest android version – Android 1.0 SDK, Release 2

Original article:
http://davanum.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/android-just-use-smack-api-for-xmpp/

Updated screen shots:

Download Source and APK from here – XMPPClient-2.zip

BlueTwit Firefox sidebar (supports Twitter too)

here are some screen shots of what i was working on the side:

[Websphere] Article on securing web services using ws-security and policies in WAS7

here’s the link:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-offload/?ca=drs-&ca=dgf-my

here are the highlights:

• Deploying and configuring a secure Web service using asymmetric
  encryption.
• Using Rational Application Developer to import a sample EAR file and
  configure Web services security policies and binding attachments for a
  Web service Client
• Using the WebSphere Application Server console to configure the Web
  service Security policies for a sample service
• Preparing Java™ Cryptography Extension (JCE) and JCEKS
  security credentials.

[android] Building and running Android from source

• Use the repo script to pull down the source as explained in
• Make sure you install ncurses headers using “sudo apt-get install ncurses-dev”
• run make from the root directory
• run the emulator using “out/host/linux-x86/bin/emulator -system out/target/product/generic/ -kernel prebuilt/android-arm/kernel/kernel-qemu”

PS: Many thanks to massiveRobot on #android IRC channel for the tip for running the emulator.

Greasemonkey script for Summize search on Twitter Home page

// ==UserScript==
// @name           Summize / Twitter
// @namespace      dims
// @include        http://twitter.com/
// ==/UserScript==

var summize = document.createElement("div");

summize.innerHTML = '<div style="margin: 0 auto 0 auto; ' +
    'border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; margin-bottom: 5px; ' +
    'font-size: small; background-color: #000000; ' +
    'color: #ffffff;">'+
  ' <form action="http://search.twitter.com/search" id="searchForm" method="get"> ' +
  '	<input autosave="com.twitter.search" id="searchBox" ' +
  '        name="q" placeholder="Enter your query" results="10" type="search" />' +
  '	<input type="submit" value="Search" />' +
  ' </form>' +
  '</div>';
document.body.insertBefore(summize, document.body.firstChild);

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