Category Archives: general

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 →

Quick cross-post just to tell that I can assert this is quite true: “Alejandro has told me the same thing – that when he does projects not related to OLS, he misses our documentation and attention to detail.” Andy’s “Master … Continue reading →

About a year ago I’ve blogged about jCard and jPTS (the jPOS-EE based Card Management System / Stored Value Engine and the jPOS Transaction Switch). As part of the project, we defined what we called our IMF (internal message format) … Continue reading →

/by apr on why-oh-why/ What’s wrong with Payment gateways? I’ve seen this problem coming a long time ago; in my country there’s a local credit card association called POS2000. After a long long time they’ve settled on a single ISO-8583 … Continue reading →

As a follow-up to the previous post about vdmspace, I’ve implemented a simple SpaceWriter TransactionParticipant that can be used to log all transaction contexts to the highly reliable VoldemortSpace (vdm:space). It can be added to your transaction flow like this: … Continue reading →

As a follow-up to the VoldemortSpace post and after one month of development and testing we are not proud (see caveats below) to announce the vdmspace module and its supporting voldemort module. I’ve added two modules to jposee/opt, ‘voldemort’ and … Continue reading →