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Inspired by this talk, I got reminded to play with EAVs in jPOS-EE. I’ve created a jPOS-EE modules called “things” that I believe it’s a good thing to have in most applications. I don’t think this is a one-size-fits-all solution, … Continue reading →

In jCard and jPTS we use the concept of Stations, we have Source Stations (SS), Destination Stations (DS), Monitoring Stations (MS), Control Stations (CS) and Cryptographic Stations (HSMS), etc. Every station usually requires a handful Q2 services (QBeans), such as … Continue reading →

Just a quick note to let you know that jPOS 1.6.8 has been released (ChangeLog). This is a maintenance release that fixes several bugs and adds some reasonable defaults that can avoid some problems (i.e.TransactionManager’s paused-timeout default issue). jPOS-EE users … Continue reading →

/by apr/ There are several recurring questions that jPOS new users keep asking: I want to build jPOS in Netbeans/Eclipse/IDEA I want to log to log4j I want to run it in Tomcat/Spring/Websphere/Weblogic/JBoss (note the mix of technologies here) Here … Continue reading →

/by apr/ As a follow-up to the initial post about jCard and jPTS, I’d like to explain what is jCard after all. jCard is an interface between the ISO-8583 world and a double-entry accounting system. – or better yet – … Continue reading →

We’ve migrated our issue tracking system to YouTrack. I have reviewed old issues and migrated outstanding ones to the new system. The old system will remain online for a while, but will be decommissioned at some point during 2010. Some … Continue reading →

jPOS 1.6.6 is out, the new development version is 1.6.7. See ChangeLog for details. jPOS-EE has been updated to the latest version.

As of jPOS 1.6.5 r2845, we added a new input-space property to the TransactionManager. With this minor addition, you can easily distribute the load among multiple Q2 instances running in the same or different machines. I’m a true believer in … Continue reading →

In addition to the must-have buy-it-now jPOS Programmer’s Guide, I’ve been working in a new document, the jPOS Project Guide. I thought it would be a good idea to share the source code of that document, which uses DITA, so … Continue reading →

When we started to log messages using a very simple XML format a long time ago, and then created the XMLPackager to support that message format, we never thought that this was going to be so heavily used, we frequently … Continue reading →