Category Archives: general

If you use Maven, there’s an extremely easy way to create a jPOS application now: mvn archetype:generate \ -DarchetypeGroupId=org.jpos \ -DarchetypeArtifactId=jpos-archetype \ -DarchetypeVersion=1.8.2 \ -DarchetypeRepository=http://jpos.org/maven If you don’t want to use the remote archetype, you can always ‘mvn install’ jPOS … Continue reading →

When companies — specially start-ups — ask us regarding jPOS performance, they usually tell us they need to support a massive load in the 1000+ TPS range. In order to give some perspective to these requirements, we always exchange some … Continue reading →

Starting in jPOS 1.8, we are going to manage jPOS builds using Maven. There’s a mvn branch soon to be merged with master. It seems 1.7.2 will be the last version of the old series managed by ‘ant’, will jump … Continue reading →

Quick note to let you know that as of subversion r3019, new jPOS development will take place in github.com/jpos. The jPOS Project Guide has been updated.

/by apr/ I’ve spent a great time listening to great talks at RubyConf Uruguay organized by Cubox. Now I totally understand when they say “Old School Teamwork Fun People, Serious pros: The mix you’re looking for” in their website. It … Continue reading →

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 →