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A few weeks ago we had a WSE 2.0 send port fail—resulting in the suspension of hundreds of service instances. Resumption of these suspended WSE instances resulted in a consistent general BTSException, with little useful detail. Sadly, due to lack of access to the production environment, the root cause of this problem remains a mystery. It was requested that the message part content for each be extracted for further analysis, and manual rectification. While not huge numbers, this would prove to be a tedious and monotonous task for our sysops administrator. ...

Updated: 2022-01-23 I finally (2007) bit the bullet and commited to learning a real text editor. Having muddled on and off with vi since the late 90s, decided on Vim. Once you break through its initial, steep, learning curve its truly life changing. Level up and become a text surgeon today. Vim is incredibly customisable. Its important to take the time to craft your own vimrc. Type :options to understand the various levers you can pull to make Vim your editor. Almost 15 years later, I’m still constantly fine tuning things. ...

As a follow up to previous post [The Servlet API]({% post_url 2007-02-20-servlet-api %}), this post aims to sweeps over some fundamentals of JSP, a technology which thanks to its simple yet extensible design, still to this day, underpins many modern web application frameworks. JavaServer Pages (JSP) is a technology that helps software developers create dynamically generated web pages based on HTML, XML, or other document types. Released in 1999 by Sun Microsystems. ...

As you start out building Java web applications, you soon find that it sit upon several well designed building blocks. Once the penny drops, and an intuition about these building blocks is gained, creating web apps on Java becomes a delight. Two key, top level concepts are the mighty Servlet API and JavaServer Pages (JSP). These are deployed to a Web container, also commonly referred to a Servlet (or Web) container. ...