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The 100 Rules for Being a First-Time EntrepreneurIf you Google “entrepreneur” you get a lot of mindless cliches like “Think Big!” For me, being an “entrepreneur” doesn’t mean starting the next “Faceook”. Or even starting any business at all.It means finding the challenges you have in your life, and determining creative ways to overcome those challenges. However, in this post I focus mostly on the issues that come up when you first start your company. These rules also apply if you are taking an entrepreneurial stance within a much larger company (which all employees should do).Just as good to be an “entreployee” as an “entrepreneur”. Either one will help you survive this world of increased economic uncertainty.For me, I’ve started several businesses.Maybe 17 have failed out of 20. I fail quickly. I fail frequently. Entrepreneurship is a sentence of failures punctuated by brief success.I’m invested in about 28 private companies. I’ve advised probably another 50 private companies. I’m on the board of several private companies and one public company. The companies ranging from $0 in revenues to a billion in revenues.Along the way I’ve compiled a list of rules that have helped me deal with every aspect of being an entrepreneur in business and some in life.Here’s the real rules:A)        It’s not fun. I’m not going to explain why it’s not fun. These are rules. Not theories. I don’t need to prove them.But there’s a strong chance you can hate yourself throughout the process of being an entrepreneur. Keep sharp objects and pills away during your worst moments. And you will have them. If you are an entrepreneur and agree with me, please note this in the comments below.B)        Try not to hire people. You’ll have to hire people to expand your business. But it’s a good discipline to really question if you need each and every hire.C)       Get a customer. This seems obvious. But it’s not. Get a customer before you start your business, if you can.So many people say to me, “I have an idea. Can you introduce me to VCs?”There is a HUGE gap between “idea” and “professional venture capital”.In the middle of that gap is “customer”.D)        If you are offering a service, call it a product.Oracle did it. They claimed they had a database. But if you “bought” their database they would send in a team of consultants to help you “install” the database to fit your needs.In other words, for the first several years of their existence, they claimed to have a product but they really were a consulting company. Don’t forget this story. Products are valued higher than services.And almost EVERY major software product company was a service company in the beginning. Don’t forget that.E)       It’s OK to fail. Start over. Hopefully before you run out of money. Hopefully before you take in investor money. Or, don’t worry about it. Come up with new ideas. Start over.F)         Be profitable. Try to be profitable immediately. This seems obvious but it isn’t. Try not to raise money. That money is expensive.G)        When raising money: if it’s not easy then your idea is probably incapable of raising money. If its easy, then take as much as possible. If its TOO easy, then sell your company (unless you are Twitter, etc).(if its too easy, sell your company)H)        The same goes for selling your company. If it’s not easy, then you need to build more. Then sell. To sell your company, start getting in front of your acquirers a year in advance. Send them monthly updates describing your progress. Then, when they need a company like yours, your company is the first one that comes to mind.Don’t be like that guy in the TV show “Silicon Valley”. If someone offers you ten million for a company that has no revenues, then sell it. Not everything is going to be a Facebook. And even the Google guys tried to sell their company for ONE MILLION DOLLARS to Yahoo before they were revenue positive.SELL THE COMPANY.I)          Competition is good. It turns you into a killer. It helps you judge progress. It shows that other people value the space you are in. Your competitors are also your potential acquirors.J)         Don’t use a PR firm. Except maybe as a secretary. You are the PR for your company. You are your company’s brand. You personally.I’ve never had a good PR company. I’ve had good PR secretaries. But they are cheaper. One time I hired a PR company and they accidentally sent me the contract for Terry Bradshaw. He was paying $10,000 a month. How did they do for him?K)        Communicate with everyone. Employees. Customers. Investors. All the time. Every day.Employees want to know what to do. And they want to know you are thinking of their overall career.Customers want to know how to keep their bosses calm.Investors want to be your friend and want to know they can count on you when time’s are tough.L)         Do everything for your customers. This is very important.Get them girlfriends or boyfriends. Speak at their charities. Visit their parents for Thanksgiving. Help them find other firms to meet their needs. Even introduce them to your competitors if you think a competitor can help them or if you think you are about to be fired. Always think first, “What’s going to make my customer happy?”Note: EVEN if that means introduce them to a competitor. If you are the SOURCE, then everybody comes back to the source.M)        Your customer is not a company. There’s a human there. What will make my human customer happy? Make him laugh. You want your customer to be happy.N)        Show up. Go to breakfast/lunch/dinner with customers. Treat.O)        History. Know the history of your customers in every way. Company history, personal history, marketing history, investing history, etc.P)         Micro-manage software development. Nobody knows your product better than you do. If you aren’t a technical person, learn how to be very specific in your product specification so that your programmers can’t say: “well you didn’t say that!”Q)        Hire local. You need to be able to see and talk to your programmers. Don’t outsource to India. I love India. But I won’t hire programmers from there while I’m living in the US.R)        Sleep. Don’t buy into the 20 hours a day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.If you are working 20 hours a day, then that means you have flaws in how you are managing your time. You can argue about this but it’s true.S)         Exercise. Same as above. If you are unhealthy, your product will be unhealthy.T)         Emotionally Fit. DON’T have dating problems and software development problems at the same time. VCs will smell this all over you.U)        Pray. You need to. Be grateful where you are. And pray for success. You deserve it. Pray for the success of your customers. Heck, pray for the success of your competitors. The better they do, it means the market is getting bigger. And if one of them breaks out, they can buy you.V)       Buy your employees gifts. Massages. Tickets. Whatever. I always imagined that at the end of each day my young, lesbian employees (for some reason, most employees at my first company were lesbian) would be calling their parents and their mom and dad would ask them: “Hi honey! How was your day today?” And I wanted them to be able to say: “It was the best!” Invite customers to masseuse day. W)       Treat your employees like they are your children. They need boundaries. They need to be told “no!” sometimes. And sometimes you need to hit them in the face (ha ha, just kidding). But within boundaries, let them play.X)        Don’t be greedy pricing your product. If your product is good and you price it cheap, people will buy. Then you can price upgrades, future products, and future services more expensive. Which goes along with the next rule.Y)        Distribution is everything. Branding is everything. Get your name out there, whatever it takes. The best distribution is of course word of mouth, which is why your initial pricing doesn’t matter.Write a blog about your industry and be very honest about all the flaws (even your own) that is currently in your industry.Authenticity is the best branding.Z)         Don’t kill yourself. It’s not worth it. Your employees need you.Your children or future children need you. It seems odd to include this in a post about entrepreneurship but we’re also taking about keeping it real.Most books or “rules” for entrepreneurs talk about things like “think big”, “go after your dreams”. But often dreams turn into nightmares. I’ll repeat it again. Don’t kill yourself. Call me if things get too stressful. Or more importantly, make sure you take proper medicationAA)     Give employees structure. Let each employee know how his or her path to success can be achieved. All of them will either leave you or replace you eventually. That’s OK. Give them the guidelines how that might happen. Tell them how they can get rich by working for you.BB)      Fire employees immediately. If an employee gets “the disease” he needs to be fired. If they ask for more money all the time. If they bad mouth you to other employees. If you even think they are talking behind your back, fire them.The disease has no cure. And it’s very contagious. Show no mercy. Show the employee the door. There are no second chances because the disease is incurable.I don’t say this because I want anyone to be hurt. But if you’ve followed the rules above then you are treating employees well already. NOBODY should spread the disease and badmouth you or your customers.CC)      Make friends with your landlord. If you ever have to sell your company, believe it or not, you are going to need his signature (because there’s going to be a new lease owner)DD)     Only move offices if you are so packed in that employees are sharing desks and there’s no room for people to walk.EE)      Have killer parties. But use your personal money. Not company money. Invite employees, customers, and investors. .FF)       If an employee comes to you crying, close the door or take him or her out of the building. Sit with him until it stops. Listen to what he has to say. If someone is crying then there’s been a major communication breakdown somewhere in the company. Listen to what it is and fix it. Don’t get angry at the culprit’s. Just fix the problem.(you don’t want your employees to be sad.)GG)     At Christmas, donate money to every customer’s favorite charity. But not for investors or employees.HH)     Have lunch with your competitors. Listen and try not to talk. One competitor (Bill Markel from Interactive 8) once told me a story about how the CEO of Toys R Us returned his call. He was telling me this because I never returned Bill’s calls. Ok, Bill, lesson noted.II)        Ask advice a lot. Ask your customers advice on how you can be introduced into other parts of their company. Then they will help you. Because of the next rule…JJ)        Hire your customers. Or not. But always leave open the possibility. Let it always dangle in the air between you and them. They can get rich with you. Maybe. Possibly. If they play along. So play.KK)     On any demo or delivery, do one extra surprise thing that was not expected. Always add bells and whistles that the customer didn’t pay for.This is such an easy way to over deliver I’m surprised people don’t do it 100% of the time. They do it maybe 1% of the time. So this is an easy way to compete and surprise and delight.LL)      Understand the demographic changes that are changing the world. Where are marketing dollars flowing and can you be in the middle. What services do aging baby boomers need? Is the world running out of clean water? Are newspapers going to survive? Etc. Etc. Read every day to understand what is going on.LLa) Don’t go to a lot of parties or “meetups” with other entrepreneurs. Work instead while they are partying.MM)    But, going along with the above rule, don’t listen to the doom and gloomers that are hogging the TV screen trying to tell you the world is over. They just want you to be scared so they can scoop up all the money.NN)     You have no more free time. In your free time you are thinking of new ideas for customers, new ideas for services to offer, new products.OO)     You have no more free time, part 2. In your free time, think of ideas for potential customers. Then send them emails: “I have 10 ideas for you. Would really like to show them to you. I think you will be blown away. Here’s five of them right now.”OOa) Depressions, recessions, don’t matter. There’s $15 trillion in the economy. You’re allowed a piece of it:FedEx, Microsoft, HewlettPackard, and many huge companies were started in recessions or depressions. Leave economics to the academics while they leave good business to you.PP)       Talk. Tell everyone you ever knew  what your company does. Your friends will help you find clients.QQ)     Always take someone with you to a meeting. You’re bad at following up. Because you have no free time. So, if you have another employee. Let them follow up. Plus, they will like to spend time with the boss. You’re going to be a mentor.RR)      If you are consumer focused: your advertisers are your customers. But always be thinking of new services for your consumers. Each new service has to make their life better. People’s lives are better if: they become healthier, richer, or have more sex. “Health” can be broadly defined.SS)       If your customers are advertisers: find sponsorship opportunities for them that drive customers straight into their arms. These are the most lucrative ad deals (see rule above). Ad inventory is a horrible business model. Sponsorships are better. Then you are talking to your customer.TT)      No friction. The harder it is for a consumer to sign up, the less consumers you will have. No confirmation emails, sign up forms, etc. The easier the better.TTA) No fiction, part 2. If you are making a website, have as much content as you can on the front page. You don’t want people to have to click to a second or third page if you can avoid it. Stuff that first page with content. You aren’t Google. (And, 10 Unusual Things You Didn’t Know About Google)UU)     No friction, part 3. Say “yes” to any opportunity that gets you in a room with a big decision maker. Doesn’t matter if it costs you money.VV)     Sell your company two years before you sell it. Get in the offices of the potential buyers of your company and start updating them on your progress every month.  Ask their advice on a regular basis in the guise of just an “industry catch-up”WW)    If you sell your company for stock, sell the stock as soon as you can. If you are selling your company for stock it means:a.         The market is such that lots of companies are being sold for stock.b.         AND, companies are using stock to buy other companies because they value their stock less than they value cash.c.         WHICH MEANS, that when everyone’s lockup period ends, EVERYONE will be selling stock across the country. So sell yours first.XX)     Execution is a dime a dozen. If you have an idea worth pursuing, then just make it. You can build any website for cheap. Hire a programmer and make a demo. Get at least one person to sign up and use your service. If you want to make Facebook pages for plumbers, find one plumber who will give you $10 to make his Facebook page. Just do it.Fail quickly. Good ideas are HARD. It’s execution that is a dime a dozen.YY)     Don’t use a PR firm, part II. Set up a blog. Tell your personal stories (see “33 tips to being a better writer” ). Let the customer know you are human, approachable, and have a real vision as to why they need to use you. Become the voice for your industry, the advocate for your products. If you make skin care products, tell your customers every day how they can be even more beautiful than they currently are and have more sex than they are currently getting. Blog your way to PR success. Be honest and bloody.ZZ)      Don’t save the world. If your product sounds too good to be true, then you are a liar.ZZa) Your company is always for sale.AAA)  Frame the first check. I’m staring at mine right now.BBB)   No free time, part 3. Pick a random customer. Find five ideas for them that have nothing to do with your business. Call them and say, “I’ve been thinking about you. Have you tried this?”CCC)   No resale deals. Nobody cares about reselling your service. Those are always bad deals.DDD)   Your lawyer or accountant is not going to introduce you to any of their other clients. Those meetings are always a waste of time.EEE)    Celebrate every success. Your employees need it. They need a massage also. Get a professional masseuse in every Friday afternoon. Nobody leaves a job where there is a masseuse.FFF)     Sell your first company. I have to repeat this. Don’t take any chances. You don’t need to be Mark Zuckerberg. Sell your first company as quick as you can. You now have money in the bank and a notch on your belt. Make a billion on your next company.Note Mark Cuban’s story. Before he started Broadcast and rode it to a few billion, he sold his first software company for ten million.GGG)   Pay your employees before you pay yourself.HHH)   Give equity to get the first customer. If you have no product yet and no money, then give equity to a good partner in exchange for them being a paying customer.  Note: don’t blindly give equity. If you develop a product that someone asked for, don’t give them equity. Sell it to them. But if you want to get a big distribution partner whose funds can keep you going forever, then give equity to nail the deal.III)       Don’t worry about anyone stealing your ideas. Ideas are worthless anyway. It’s OK to steal something that’s worthless.IIIA) Follow me on twitter.Questions from ReadersQuestion: You say no free time but you also say keep emotionally fit, physically fit, etc. How do I do this if I’m constantly thinking of ideas for old and potential customers?Answer:  It’s not easy or everyone would be rich.Question: if I get really stressed about clients paying, how do I get sleep at night?Answer: medicationQuestion: how do I cold-call clients?Answer: email them. Email 40 of them. It’s OK if only 1 answers. Email 40 a day but make sure you have something of value to offer.Question: how can I find cheap programmers or designers?Answer: if you don’t know any and you want to be cheap: use Hire Freelancers & Find Freelance Jobs Online, Elance, or craigslist. But don’t hire them if they are from another country. You need to communicate with them even if it costs more money.Question: should I hire programmers?Answer: first…freelance. Then hire.Question: what if I build my product but I’m not getting customers?Answer: develop a service loosely based on your product and offer that to customers. But I hope you didn’t make a product without talking to customers to begin with?Question: I have the best idea in the world, but for it to work it requires a lot of people to already be using it. Like Twitter.Answer: if you’re not baked into the Silicon Valley ecosystem,  then find distribution and offer equity if you have to. Zuckerberg had Harvard. MySpace had the fans of all the local bands they set up with MySpace pages. I (in my own small way) had Stock Market - Business News, Market Data, Stock Analysis - TheStreet when I set up Stockpickr! Your Source for Stock Ideas. I also had 10 paying clients when i did my first successful business fulltime.Question: I just lost my biggest customer and now I have to fire people. I’ve never done this before. How do I do it?Answer:  one on meetings. Be Kind. State the facts. Say you have to let people go and that everyone is hurting but you want to keep in touch because they are a great employee. It was an honor to work with them and when business comes back you hope you can convince them come back. Then ask them if they have any questions. Your reputation and the reputation of your company are on the line here. You want to be a good guy. But you want them out of your office within 15 minutes. It’s a termination, not a negotiation. This is one reason why it’s good to start with freelancers.Question: I have a great idea. How do I attract VCs?Answer: build the product. Get a customer. Get money from customer. Get more customers. Build more services in the product. Get VC. Chances are by this point, the VCs are calling you.Question: I want to build a business day trading.Answer: bad ideaQuestion: I want to start a business but don’t know what my passion is:Answer: skip to the post: “How to be the luckiest person alive”. Do the Daily Practice. Within six months your life will be completely different.Question: I want to leave my job but I’m scared.Answer: same as above question.  The Daily Practice turns you into a healthy Idea Machine. Plus luck will flow in from every direction.Final rule: Things change. Every day. The title of this post, for instance, says “100 Rules”. But I gave about 70 rules (including the Q&A). Things change midway through. Be ready for it every day. In fact, every day figure out what you can change just slightly to shake things up and improve your product and company.Your business is not your life. When you start a business you also get a cognitive bias that makes you think your business is GREAT.Every day make sure you are not smoking crack. The most important thing is your health so you can be persistent. If you smoke crack you can die.I hope you succeed. Because I really need that smart toilet that sends my doctors text messages after doing urinalysis on my pee every day.Good luck.

There are Some Projects based on linux hope this will help you outDKMSDKMS stands for Dynamic Kernel Module Support. It is designed to create a framework where kernel dependent module source can reside so that it is very easy to rebuild modules as you upgrade kernels. This will allow Linux vendors to provide driver drops without having to wait for new kernel releases while also taking out the guesswork for customers attempting to recompile modules for new kernels. For veteran Linux users it also provides some advantages since a separate framework for driver drops will remove kernel releases as a blocking mechanism for distributing code. Instead, driver development should speed up as this separate module source tree will allow quicker testing cycles meaning better tested code can later be pushed back into the kernel at a more rapid pace. Its also nice for developers and maintainers as DKMS only requires a source tarball in conjunction with a small configuration file in order to function correctly.The latest DKMS version is available here. Also, you can read this Linux Journal article or this more recentPower Solutions paper or this even more recent Ottawa Linux Symposium paper about DKMS for more information. You may also participate in the dkms-devel mailing list. This project is maintained by Mario Limonciello, and was formerly maintained by Matt Domsch and Gary Lerhaupt.EDDBIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services 3.0 (EDD) is mechanism to match x86 BIOS device names (e.g. int13 device 80h) to Linux device names (e.g. /dev/sda, /dev/hda). EDD is a project of a T13 committee. Matt Domsch implemented the EDD specification under Linux. This code makes real mode int13 EDD BIOS calls very early during kernel startup to obtain the Master Boot Record signature and physical location (PCI bus/device/function, IDE master/slave, SCSI ID and LUN) of BIOS-seen disks, then exports this information through /proc (2.4.x kernels) or sysfs (2.6.x kernels). This information may then be used by operating system installers to determine which disk BIOS will boot from, thus the right place to put GRUB, LILO, and your /boot and / partitions.EDD was incorporated into the 2.5.44 kernel, and the 2.4.23-pre6 kernel. It has been included in several Linux distributions, including Red Hat Linux 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. It is being used at install time of Red Hat Enteprise Linux 4, and Novell/SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.Few BIOSs actually implement the full EDD 3.0 specification today. Matt Domsch created a list of BIOSsreported to be good, almost good, and those who don't try to implement the spec, though the list is not being maintained any longer. This project is maintained by Matt Domsch.DevlabelDevlabel is a program which dynamically creates symbolic links to disk/partition names. It uses the disk's and/or partition's unique identifiers to keep the symlink pointed to the correct location even if the underlying partition's name has changed. So, regardless if /dev/sdb6 becomes /dev/sdc6, devlabel figures this all out and points the symlink to your right data. This allows for:An unchanging symlink name which will always get you to the right locationA method for identifying partitions which have no filesystem on them (eg. swap) which would not otherwise be mountable by a filesystem labelIf using raw devices, a consistently named file node to point to your dataAn engine for cluster deployment in shared storage environmentsAn automounter for hotpluggable storage devices which will mount a storage device's associated symlink when its plugged inA set of consistently named symlinks to be used for a multipath device in /etc/raidtabA method to ensure correct device ownership and permissions when device renaming events occurThe latest version can be downloaded here. For more information, read this paper. Devlabel is supported on 2.4.x kernels, such as with Red Hat Enteprise Linux 3. For kernel 2.6.x-based products, we recommend using udev, included in your distribution, instead. efibootmgrThe efibootmgr project is a Linux user-space application to modify the Intel Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) Boot Manager. This application can create and destroy boot entries, change the boot order, change the next running boot option, and more.Details on the EFI Boot Manager are available from the EFI Specification, v1.02 or above, available from Intel Developer Centers. Note: efibootmgr requires that the kernel module efivars be loaded prior to use. 'modprobe efivars' should do the trick.Source code is available in the git tree. The latest stable version is located athttp://linux.dell.com/efibootmgr with older versions stored in the permalink sub-directory. The latest testing version is located in Index of /efibootmgr/testing. This project is maintained by Matt Domsch.BIOSdiskbiosdisk simplifies the process of flashing your system BIOS under Linux on Dell desktops and laptops. The purpose of this utility is to create a bootable BIOS flash image using the raw BIOS flash executable images (e.g. WS360A05.exe) available from Dell Support. An RPM, SRPM, and tarball for this project are available at Page on dell.com. A git tree is available at linux.dell.com git repositories. The project consists of a shell script that, when executed, creates a FreeDOS floppy image at a location of your choosing. This project is intended for Dell desktop and laptop customers and not PowerEdge customers, since Linux BIOS flash packages are already available for PowerEdge systems, and raw executable BIOS flash images are not.To use the biosdisk utility to create a BIOS flash image, first download the latest raw BIOS image for your system from Dell Support or ftp://ftp.dell.com/bios. You then have one of several options: create a floppy, create a dd floppy image, create a user-installable distribution-specific package (e.g. RPM), or actually install the image for your bootloader.* The mkfloppy action will create the biosdisk image and write it directly to a floppy disk. Usage is the following:   biosdisk mkfloppy [-o option] [-d device] [-k baseimage] /path/to/.exe * The mkimage action will create a floppy image on the user's hard drive. Usage is the following:    biosdisk mkimage [-o option] [-i destination] [-k baseimage] /path/to/.exe * The mkpkg action will create the floppy image, and use it to create a user-installable package specific to the distribution (example: RPM). When the package is installed, it will use the distribution's built-in tools to update the system's bootloader so that the user can boot to the image from the hard drive to flash the BIOS, without needing a floppy drive. Currently only Red Hat/Fedora RPM packages are supported. Usage is as follows:   biosdisk mkpkg [-o option] [--install] [--distro=] [--name=] [--version=] [--release=] /path/to/{.exe | .img}* The install action will create the biosdisk image, copy the image file to /boot, and then update the bootloader with an entry for the image. Then all the user has to do is boot the system and select the image to flash the BIOS; this will load the biosdisk image directly from the hard drive and flash the BIOS.   biosdisk install [-o option] [--name=] /path/to/{.exe | .img}This project is maintained by John Hull.DVD StoreThe DVD Store Release 2 (DS2) is now available from Index of /dvdstore The DVD Store Version 2 (DS2) is a complete online e-commerce test application, with a backend database component, a web application layer, and driver programs. The goal in designing the database component as well as the midtier application was to utilize many advanced database features (transactions, stored procedures, triggers, referential integity) while keeping the database easy to install and understand. The DS2 workload may be used to test databases or as a stress tool for any purpose. The code is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The initial distribution includes code for the MySQL database. Code for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server will follow. Included in the release are data generation programs, shell scripts to build data for 10MB, 1GB and 100 GB versions of the DVD Store, database build scripts and stored procedure, PHP web pages, and a C# driver program. See the readme.txt file and readme's inside the distribution for more details. This project is maintained by Dave Jaffe.libsmbiosLibsmbios is a cross OS library intended to be used to obtain common information available in BIOS using a unified API. Currently, it can programmatically access any information in the SMBIOS tables. It also has the ability to obtain Dell system-specific information such as the Dell System ID number, service tag, and asset tag. Future plans include APIs for $PIR, and mptable mapping. Libsmbios is written in C++ and works on Linux (all flavors) and Windows (NT through 2003 SP1). There is a C API for some of the more commonly used functions, plus example binaries to show off most of the facilities. Libsmbios has some unique features. First, it is designed to be utilized at an API level by external programs. Many other programs rely on the user parsing text output rather than the easier-to-use API calls that libsmbios provides. Next, the libsmbios has an optional access method where you can retrieve SMBIOS information by the text names of the structures and fields by using an XML definition of the tables. This means that to add new table definitions, you need not modify code. Most other smbios programs have C code to decode each table. Libsmbios is extensible without having to recompile the code. Next, libsmbios makes extensive use of cppunit for unit testing to ensure a high degree of quality, valgrind for memory leak detection, and gcov for code coverage analysis. All these tools are built into the build system and run for each official release of the code. DMTF standard for SMBIOSCppUnitValgrindThis project is maintained by Michael Brown and has a public mailing list for developers. firmware-toolsfirmware-tools is an open source (dual GPL and OSL licenses) project to make it easy to flash the BIOS and firmware of your devices while running Linux. This project is maintained by Michael Brown and Matt Domsch, and has a public mailing list for developers.biosdevnamebiosdevname is a udev helper application which takes a kernel device name as an argument, and returns the BIOS-given name it "should" be. This is necessary on systems where the BIOS name for a given device (e.g. the label on the chassis is "Gb1") doesn't map directly and obviously to the kernel name (e.g. eth0). It uses data from the system BIOS to figure this out. This project is maintained by Jordan Hargrave. Issues with biosdevname should be sent to the linux-poweredge public mailing list or the udev mailing list linux-hotplug-devel@lists.source....libnetdevnamelibnetdevname is a library that helps map a meaningful name to a network device like "Embedded NIC 1" to conventional ethernet device names like eth0. This makes it possible to have alternative names based on various criteria like chassis port number, speed, etc. Applications can use this library to utilize device names in addition to the conventional names. This project is maintained by Narendra K. Issues with libnetdevname should be sent to the linux-poweredge public mailing listdell-satellite-syncDell-satellite-sync is a tool for taking Dell's official Linux software repositories, replicating them into an RHN Satellite or Spacewalk server, and subscribing any registered Dell systems to the correct child channel.Issues with dell-satellite-sync should be sent to the linux-poweredge public mailing list.

Here is a list of Cons: (From Shooting yourself in the foot in various programming languages)370 JCL You send your foot down to MIS and include a 300-page document explaining exactly how you want it to be shot. Two years later, your foot comes back deep-fried.You shoot yourself in the head just thinking about it.You find the first building you're in in the phone book, then find your office number in the corporate phone book. Then you have to write this down and describe, in cubits, your exact location in relation to the door (the right side thereof). Then you need to write down the location of the gun (loading it is a proprietary utility), then you load it, and the COBOL program, and run them, and with luck, it may be run tonight.Ada If you are dumb enough to actually use this language, the United States Department of Defense will kidnap you, stand you up in front of a firing squad, and tell the soldiers, "Shoot at his feet."After correctly packaging your foot, you attempt to concurrently load the gun, pull the trigger, scream, and shoot yourself in the foot. When you try, however, you discover that your foot is of the wrong type.You scour all 156e54 pages of the manuals, looking for references to foot, leg, or toe; then you get hopelessly confused and give up. You sneak in when the boss isn't around and finally write the damn thing in C. You turn in 7,689 pages of source code to the review committee, knowing they'll never look at it, and when the program needs maintenance, you quit.Algol You shoot yourself in the foot with a Civil War-era musket. The musket is aesthetically fascinating, and the wound baffles the adolescent medic in the emergency room.Algol 60 You spend hours trying to figure out how to fire the gun because it has no provisions for input or output.Algol 68 You mildly deprocedure the gun, the bullet gets firmly dereferenced, and your foot is strongly coerced to void.APL You shoot yourself in the foot and then spend all day figuring out how to do it in fewer characters.You hear a gunshot and there's a hole in your foot, but you don't remember enough linear algebra to understand what happened.@#&^$%&%^ footAPT You cut a perfect bullethole in your foot and shoot through it.ASP You try to shoot yourself in the foot, but the most advanced thing you can manage is to cut your wrist.Assembly You try to shoot yourself in the foot only to discover that you must first invent the gun, the bullet, the trigger, and your foot.You crash the OS and overwrite the root disk. The system administrator arrives and shoots you in the foot. After a moment of contemplation, the system administrator shoots himself in the foot and then hops around the room rapidly shooting at everyone in sight.By the time you've written the gun, you are dead, and don't have to worry about shooting your feet. Alternatively, you shoot and miss, but don't notice.Using only 7 bytes of code, you blow off your entire leg in only 2 CPU clock ticks.BASIC Shoot self in foot with water pistol. On big systems, continue until entire lower body is waterlogged.BCPL You shoot yourself somewhere in the leg; you can't get any finer resolution than that.C You shoot yourself in the foot.You shoot yourself in the foot and then nobody else can figure out what you did.C++ You accidentally create a dozen instances of yourself and shoot them all in the foot. Providing emergency medical assistance is impossible since you can't tell which are bitwise copies and which are just pointing at others and saying, "That's me, over there."C# You shoot yourself in the foot, but first have to switch to unsafe mode.You forget precisely how to use the .NET interface and shoot yourself in the foot. You sue Microsoft for damages.Clipper You grab a bullet, get ready to insert it in the gun so that you can shoot yourself in the foot, and discover that the gun that the bullet fits has not yet been built, but should be arriving in the mail real soon now.COBOL USEing a COLT.45 HANDGUN, AIM GUN at LEG.FOOT, THEN PLACE ARM.HAND.FINGER on HANDGUN.TRIGGER and SQUEEZE. THEN RETURN HANDGUN to HOLSTER. CHECK whether SHOELACE needs to be retied.Allocate $500,000 for the project. Define foot, bullet, gun. Run press_trigger. Go for coffee break. Return in time to put foot under bullet.You try to shoot yourself in the foot, but the gun won't fire unless it's aligned in column 8.Concurrent Euclid You shoot yourself in somebody else's foot.CP/M You remember when shooting yourself in the foot with a BB gun was a big deal.CSS Everyone can now shoot themselves in the foot, but all their feet come out looking identical and attached to their ears.dBase You buy a gun. Bullets are only available from another company and are promised to work so you buy them. Then you find out that the next version of the gun is the one that is scheduled to actually shoot bullets.You squeeze the trigger, but someone corrupted the index and the bullet shoots you in the eye.You squeeze the trigger, but the bullet moves so slowly that by the time your foot feels the pain you've forgotten why you shot yourself anyway.DCL $ MOUNT/DENSITY=.45/LABEL=BULLET/MESSAGE="BYE" BULLET::BULLET$GUN SYS$BULLET$ SET GUN/LOAD/SAFETY=OFF/SIGHT=NONE/HAND=LEFT/CHAMBER=1/ACTION=AUTOMATIC/LOG/ALL/GULL SYS$GUN_3$DUA3:[000000] GUN.GUN$ SHOOT/LOG/AUTO SYS$GUN SYS$SYSTEM:[FOOT] FOOT.FOOT%DCL-W-ACTIMAGE, error activating image GUN-CLI-E-IMGNAME image file $3$DUA240:[GUN] GUN.EXE;1-IMGACT-F-NOTNATIVE, image is not an OpenVMS Alpha AXP imageDelphi You try to shoot yourself in the foot but discover that the bullets you already had are not compatible with the new gun version, but Borland promises a fix real soon now.Eiffel You create a GUN object, two FOOT objects, and a BULLET object. The GUN passes both the FOOT objects as a reference to the BULLET. The FOOT objects increment their hole counts and forget about the BULLET. A little demon then drives a garbage truck over your feet and grabs the bullet (both of it) on the way.You take out a contract on your foot. The precondition is that there's a bullet in the gun; the postcondition is that there's a hole in your foot.English You put your foot in your mouth, then bite it off.Forth Foot in yourself shoot.First you decide to leave the number of toes lost on the stack and then implement the word foot-toes@ which takes three numbers from the stack: foot number, range, and projectile mass (in slugs) and changes the current vocabulary to blue. While testing this word you are arrested by the police for mooning (remember, this is a bottom-up language) who demonstrate the far better top-down approach to damaging yourself.BULLET DUP3 * GUN LOAD FOOT AIM TRIGGER PULL BANG EMIT DEAD IF DROP ROT THEN. This takes about five bytes of memory, executes in two to ten clock cycles on any processor, and can be used to replace any existing function of the language as well as in any future words. Welcome to bottom-up programming, where you too can perform compiler pre-processing instead of actually writing code.FORTRAN You shoot yourself in each toe, iteratively, until you run out of toes, then you read in the next foot and repeat. If you run out of bullets or toes, you continue anyway because no exception processing was anticipated.Haskell On a warm Saturday afternoon, sitting by the pool with a margarita, you casually sit up from your chaise lounge chair, signNow over and pick up a gun, aim at your foot, and lazily pull the trigger.You shoot yourself in the foot very elegantly, and wonder why the whole world isn't shooting itself this way.You spend several hours creating a new copy of the Universe which is identical to the existing one except your foot has a hole in it. You then hear that it can be done more elegantly with Dyadic Functile Hyper-Arrows, but the very act of reading some of the included sample code causes one of your metatarsals to explode.HTML You cut a bullethole in your foot with nothing more than a small penknife, but you realize that to make it look convincing, you need to be using Dreamweaver.HyperTalk Put the first bullet of the gun into foot left of leg of you. Answer the result.You describe how to shoot yourself in the foot, which not only happens, but you also get cool visual effects.As of HyperTalk 2.2, you cannot shoot yourself in the foot from within the stack; you must write this functionality into an XCMD or XFCN. However, we anticipate this functionality to be incorporated into the next major release.IDL You easily shoot yourself in the foot, complete with neat little graphs showing the trajectory of the bullet and the result of the impact. After twenty hours and ten thousand lines of code, your friend proudly announces that he has accomplished the same thing in an Excel spreadsheet.Java You write a program to shoot yourself in the foot and put it on the Internet. People all over the world shoot themselves in the foot, and everyone leaves your website hobbling and cursing.You amputate your foot at the ankle with a fourteen-pound hacksaw, but you can do it on any platform.JavaScript You find that Microsoft and Sun have released incompatible class libraries both implementing Gun objects. You then find that although there are plenty of Foot objects implemented in the past in many other languages, you cannot get access to one. But, seeing as JavaScript is so cool, you don't care and go around shooting anything else you can find.LaTeX compy$ more foot_shooting.tex\documentclass[12pt]{article}\usepackage{latexgun,latexshoot}\begin{document}See how easy it is to shoot yourself in the foot? \\\gun[leftfoot]{shoot} \\\pain\end{document}compy$ latex foot_shooting...line 6: undefined control sequence \painLisp You shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot...You attempt to shoot yourself in the foot, but the gun jams on a stray parenthesis.Linux You shoot yourself in the foot with a Gnu.Logo You can easily shoot the gun, but you have to work out the geometry to make sure the bullet goes into your foot.Mac OS (System 7) Double-click the gun icon and a window appears, giving a selection for guns, target areas, and balloon help with medical remedies. Click the "shoot" button and a small bomb appears with a note "Bad F-line instruction."Mac OS (System 7.1) Double-click the gun icon and a window appears, giving a selection for guns, target areas, and balloon help with medical remedies. Click the "shoot" button and a small bomb appears with a note "Error of type 1 has occurred."Mac OS 9 Double-click the gun icon and a window appears, giving a selection for guns, target areas, and balloon help with medical remedies. Click the "shoot" button and a window appears with the message "You need to install the latest version of CarbonLib. Should I get it for you?" You click "Yes" and your computer hangs.Mac OS X You try to shoot yourself in the foot from the GUI but the gun has inexplicably turned into a bag of Skittles.You open up the Terminal, type sudo shoot -p ~/Library/BodyParts/Preferences/foot.plist, and your kernel panics.Matlab You shoot yourself in the foot five times from the command prompt before you can put your foot in an m file.Once your foot is in an m file you shoot it fifty more ways effortlessly and then plot the results.Eventually you can't afford to continue shooting yourself in the foot this way, so you graduate to less elegant ways of shooting yourself in the foot with Excel.Modula-2 After realizing that you can't actually accomplish anything in the language, you shoot yourself in the head.MOO You ask a wizard for a pair of hands. After lovingly hand-crafting the generic gun and generic bullet, you flag the objects as fertile and then tell everyone they can now shoot themselves in the foot.Motif You spend days writing a UIL description of your foot, the trajectory, the bullet, and the intricate scrollwork on the ivory handles of the gun. When you finally get around to pulling the trigger, the gun jams.MS-DOS You finally find the gun, but you can't find the file with the bullets for the life of you.You shoot yourself in the foot, but you can unshoot yourself with add-on software.MPW Because you don't actually have a gun, you write an imitation UNIX shell and shoot yourself in the foot using Pascal..NET You can now shoot yourself in the foot with any of fourteen weapons, ranging from an antique medieval crossbow to a laser-guided Destructo-Beam. However, all these weapons must be manufactured by Microsoft and you must pay Microsoft royalties every time you shoot yourself in the foot.Objective-C You write a protocol for shooting yourself in the foot so that all people can get shot in their feet.Occam You shoot both your feet with several guns at once.Oracle You decide to shoot yourself in the foot, so you go out and buy a gun, but the gun won't work without "deploying" a shoulder holster solution, relational titanium-alloy bullets, body armor infrastructure, a laser sight assistant, a retractable arm stock application, and an enterprise team of ballistic experts and a chiropodist.The menus for coding foot_shooting have not been implemented yet, and you can't do foot_shooting in SQL.Paradox Not only can you shoot yourself in the foot, your users can too.Pascal The compiler won't let you shoot yourself in the foot.The gun is mounted such that it cannot point towards your feet, but you can swivel it round and shoot yourself in the head instead.Perl You separate the bullet from the gun with a hyperoptimized regexp, and then you transport it to your foot using several typeglobs. However, the program fails to run and you can't correct it since you don't understand what the hell it is you've written.You stab yourself in the foot repeatedly with an incredibly large and very heavy Swiss Army knife.You shoot yourself in the foot and then decide it was so much fun that you invent another six completely different ways to do it.There are so many ways to shoot yourself in the foot that you post a query to comp.lang.perl.misc to determine the optimal approach. After sifting through 500 replies (which you accomplish with a short Perl script), not to mention the cross-posts to the perl5-porters mailing list for which you upgraded your first sifter into a package, which of course you uploaded to CPAN for others who might have a similar problem (which, of course, is the problem of sorting out e-mail and news, not the problem of shooting yourself in the foot), you set to the task of simply and elegantly shooting yourself in the foot, until you discover that, while it works fine in most cases, NT, VMS, and various flavors of Linux, AIX, and Irix all let you shoot you in the foot sooner than your Perl script could.PHP Three thousand people line up on your apartment's welcome mat and demand to be shot in their feet. One by one, you oblige them, but halfway through, the http connection times out and the crowd lynches you.PicoSpan You can't shoot yourself in the foot because you're not a host.Whenever you shoot yourself in the foot, someone opens a topic in policy about it.PL/1 After consuming all system resources including bullets, the data processing department doubles its size, acquires two new mainframes, and drops the original on your foot.PostScript foot bullets 6 locate loadgun aimgun shoot showpageProlog You tell your program you wish to be shot in the foot. The program figures out how to do it, but the syntax doesn't allow it to explain.Your program tries to shoot you in the foot, but you die of old age before the bullet leaves the gun.Python You shoot yourself in the foot and then brag for hours about how much more elegantly you did it than if you had been using C or (God forbid) Perl.You create a gun module, a gun class, a foot module, and a foot class. After realizing you can't point the gun at the foot, you pass a reference to the gun to a foot object. After the foot is blown up, the gun object remains alive for eternity, ready to shoot all future feet that may happen to appear.Revelation You'll be able to shoot yourself in the foot just as soon as you figure out what all these bullets are for.Ruby You shoot yourself in the foot and then have to justify it to all your friends who are still naively using Perl.SAS You spend three hours trying to cut your way through your foot with a rock flake, only to realize that the language was invented before guns allowed you to shoot yourself in the foot interactively in one easy step with no programming.You have no idea that the gun, the bullet, or your foot exists. The gun is locked in a safe in a bank vault on the other side of the galaxy, the bullet is locked in a safe in a bank vault in another galaxy, and the people who know the combinations for the safes and bank vaults died ten million years ago. Still, the gun goes off and fires the bullet through your foot.Scheme You shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot...but none of the other appendages are aware this is happening.You vaguely remember something from your Comp Sci 101 class about shooting yourself in the foot, but why should you waste your time shooting yourself using a functional programming language?sh, csh, etc. You can't remember the syntax for anything so you spend five hours reading man pages before giving up. You then shoot the computer and switch to C.SmallTalk You spend so much time playing with the graphics and windowing system that your boss shoots you in the foot, takes away your workstation, and makes you develop in COBOL on a character terminal.You shoot yourself in the foot and your foot sends doesNotUnderstand: Pain to your brain.You daydream repeatedly about shooting yourself in the foot.SML/NJ You program a structure for your foot, the gun, and the bullet, complete with associated signatures and function definitions. After two hours of laborious typing, forgetting of semicolons, and searching old Comp Sci textbooks for the definition of such phrases as "polymorphic dynamic objective typing system", as well as an additional hour for brushing up on the lambda calculus, you run the program and the interpreter tells you that the pattern-match between your foot and the bullet is nonexhaustive. You feel a slight tingling pain, but no bullethole appears in your foot because your program did not allow for side-effecting statements.SNOBOL If you succeed, shoot yourself in the left foot. If you fail, shoot yourself in the right foot.You grab your foot with your hand, then rewrite your hand to be a bullet. The act of shooting the original foot then changes your hand/bullet into yet another foot (a left foot).SQL You cut your foot off, send it out to a service bureau, and when it returns it has a hole in it, but it will no longer fit the attachment at the end of your leg.UNIX % lsfoot.c foot.h foot.o toe.c toe.o% rm * .orm: .o: No such file or directory% ls%Visual Basic You'll only appear to have shot yourself in the foot, but you'll have so much fun doing it you won't care.You do a Google search on how to shoot yourself in the foot using Visual Basic. You find seventeen completely different ways to do it, none of which are properly structured. You paste the first example into the IDE and compile. It brushes your teeth.VMS %SYS-F-FTSHT, foot shot (fifty lines of traceback omitted)Windows 3.1 Double-click the gun icon and wait. Eventually a window opens giving a selection for guns and target areas. Click the "shoot" button and a small box appears with the note "Unable to open shoot.dll, check that path is correct."Windows 95 Your gun is not compatible with this OS and you must buy an upgrade and install it before you may continue. Then you will be informed that you don't have enough memory.Windows ME There will be too many sudden reboots to allow the bullet to get through, so your foot hangs instead.Windows XP Some teenage hacker shoots you in the foot with ActiveX. You develop gangrene and die.XBase Shooting yourself is no problem, but if you want to shoot yourself in the foot, you'll have to use Clipper.Xcode Your Objective-C and Java programs now have nifty little graphical interfaces and will run on both PowerPC and x86-based architectures, but you still can't shoot yourself in the foot unless you're the superuser.XMLYou vaporize your entire lower half with a bazooka.You can't actually shoot yourself in the foot; all you can do is describe the gun in painful detail.Z You write out all the specification of your foot, the bullet, the gun, and the relevant laws of physics, but all you can do is prove that you can shoot yourself in the foot.

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What are the best opportunities for cryprocurrencies?Becoming a Bitcoin BrokerPerhaps one of the most obvious as well as one of the most popular ways to start a business in this industry is to set yourself up as a broker, buying and selling coins to other users.Unlike other areas of finance, digital currency users often have a preference for using peer-to-peer services rather than large companies. This preference extends to exchanges, meaning that it is very easy for a small trader to set themselves up as a broker in their local area or over the internet. In fact, one of the world’s most popular services for buying and selling BTC is LocalBitcoins, which is entirely based around peer-to-peer transactions and hosts thousands of small traders earning a living as brokers.As a broker you earn your profit from the ‘spread’ – the difference between bid and ask prices. This varies according to market conditions and the payment method you are using, but you can get a rough idea simply by visiting the buy and sell pages on the site for your local area.BTMs: Operating a Bitcoin ATMIf you have enough capital behind you then a more easily scalable, and potentially more profitable way to set up a business buying and selling coins, is by operating specialist ‘Automatic Teller Machines’ (ATMs) sometimes known as ‘Bitcoin Teller Machines’ (BTM).Fees charged by BTMs seem to start around the range of 5-10% per transaction, and in some cases are a lot higher. Operators who manage to get their machines into the best locations often report ROI for their initial capital in less than a year. These machines do not take up a lot of space, so renting locations doesn’t need to cost the earth. But with the cost of the machine itself, and the requirement to stock it with notes, the initial outlay can be quite high.There are a wide range of machines available to buy, and they usually allow you to set your own fees to the level you want. Some machines will also allow you to connect to a third-party exchange through an API in order to manage your currency risk by keeping your reserves of both BTC and your local fiat at a constant level. Most machines will incorporate some form of KYC requirements, but it is important for operators to keep abreast of local regulatory requirements and ensure that their machines comply with the law.If you are already the owner of a retail location then running a BTM may be a particularly attractive proposition, and some systems have been designed with dual-functionality for this reason. Several major BTM manufacturers have included point of sale (POS) systems into their machine, whilst at the same time POS terminal providers such as Coinkite offer exchange features that enable cashiers to buy or sell coins from the till.Here is a list of some of the most popular options:Romit: Kiosks and ATMs with point of sale app and integrated remittance options.BitAccess: Fully featuresdATM machines with note recycling, customizable compliance options and remote management.GeneralBytes: Offers a choice of full kiosk and combined POS system.Skyhook: Powered by open source software, this machine supports a wide range of currencies.Lamassu: Offers a range of 3 different machines and is the market leader at the time of writing this article.GenesisCoin: Includes the option to brand the product through their white label system, and had all the features you would expect.There is even a market out there for second hand BTM machines. You can compare products and find cheap second hand deals at CoinATMRadar.Bitcoin Vending Machine BusinessesThere are many similarities between running a network of teller machines and running a vending machine business. Entrepreneurial salespeople with a strong knowledge of their local area can do well by placing these machines in strategic locations.One of the big limitations of vending machines is that many people simply don’t carry a lot of change around with them, and may not have the coins needed to make a purchase. As the use of cash continues to decline this is likely to present an ever-expanding opportunity to replace legacy systems with new machines capable of accepting alternative payment methods.Already there are machines available to purchase which accept both credit / debit cards and Bitcoin. For example, Aeguana sells a top-spec system with digital display, which they claim has driven an average 400% increase in sales on a like-for-like basis compared to traditional coin operated machines during trials in the UK.If you don’t mind getting your hands dirty (or hiring an engineer) you can also retrofit pretty much any existing vending machine to accept BTC payments using something like the BitSwitch, or alternatively Kryptomech which runs its own installation service.White Label Business OpportunitiesA white label business is when another company allows you to take their product or service, rebrand it under your own name, and present it to the public as an independent business. Although the core product is not unique, these services often allow for a relatively high degree of customization.White Label ExchangesIf you have ever thought of running your own cryptocurrency exchange website, then there are some signNow advantages to going through the white label route.The first is that high quality exchange software capable of reliably matching and executing orders at high speeds is a complex and expensive thing to develop yourself. Setting up a white label exchange is a low cost way to get into this business, but should still allow you to select which coins and currencies you want to trade, set your own fees, and customize the user-interface to suit your brand.A second major advantage is that these services usually allow you to share liquidity with other exchanges using the same network. Building enough liquidity on a new exchange to make it an attractive choice for users can be very difficult, or very expensive and risky if you provide the liquidity yourself.Here is a list of the top white label bitcoin exchange providers:AlphaPointBTCTraderDragletWLoxWhite Label CasinosGambling has always been one of those areas in which the advantages of digital currency are most apparent. One of the reasons for this is because many countries do not classify it as being real money, which means that strict laws and regulations controlling online gambling may not apply to casinos which use BTC exclusively.If you fancy running your own casino, poker or betting site then there are many white label opportunities for you to take advantage of. These can range from a complete ‘turnkey’ website which just requires you to add your own branding (and make sure that you are complying with local laws) to individual games that you can add to your own site.Here are three of the top providers of this service:CoinGamingSoftSwissBetcoinGamingOther White Label ServicesI’m sure that there are many other white label services out there, offering services other than casinos and exchanges. This is a fast past industry, so it is well worth doing your own search if you think this is something you may like to do. But for now I will leave you with just one other service that you may like to take a look at: E-Coin offers entrepreneurs the chance to white label their bitcoin debit card service, and includes the ability to access their service through an API: https://devportal.e-coin.io/Bitcoin MiningMining is a very competitive business today, but that doesn’t mean that it is impossible for new start-ups to succeed. The key to being able to make a profit from mining is that you need access to low-cost electricity. Setting up in an area with a cold climate may also help to reduce equipment cooling costs. This is, however, a risky business that is dependent on factors which are difficult to forecast (such as the price of BTC) and which will probably require a high capital outlay for equipment, so make sure you really know what you are getting into before setting up shop as a miner.Bitcoin Franchise OpportunitiesChoosing the franchise route means that not only are you provided with a product / service to sell, but you also get access to a proven strategy and business plan, and the rights to use an established brand that may already have name recognition and may run its own advertising campaigns that you can benefit from.This can be seen as one step up from a white label in terms of the help and support you get from the company behind the product, but you do have to pay for this as there is usually a fee which must be paid to purchase the franchise. If you are considering taking this route then I would advise you to do a little research to find the latest franchise offerings yourself, but to whet your appetite and perhaps save some of you the time and effort, here are three of the most interesting franchises that I have been able to find:Coin Telegraph – One of the most well known names in digital currency news, Coin Telegraph is offering foreign language franchises in many countries around the world. A similar model is being followed by another news site called NewsBTC.Coingaia – A Bitcoin exchange which is using a franchise model instead of the white label route for anybody looking to start their own exchange.MegaBigPower – If you have been thinking about setting up your own mining business but don’t have the full capital outlay required then this is worth looking into. You provide a premises and electricity, and they will provide ASIC mining machines and technical support to help you run them.Retail BusinessesYou can buy most things with Bitcoin today, but there are still opportunities available for new retail businesses which accept digital currency payments to make a name for themselves.The low transaction costs and freedom from chargebacks makes BTC payments an attractive proposition for retailers, and if you can pass on some of those savings to your customers in the form of discounts you have a great chance to attract new business.Perhaps the easiest way to set up a new retail business and take payment in BTC is using an internet shop builder service like Shopify.Reseller & Dropship OpportunitiesIf you are already involved in retail, or if this is a sector you are thinking about going into, you may also like to consider reselling Bitcoin related products.For example, Prypto offers a way for retailers to sell Bitcoin in the form of scratch cards or vouchers. This is perfect for adding to the counter of a local newsagent of grocery store, but can also be used by online businesses.There are also many digital products unrelated to digital currency which have reseller programs. This is a great way to get into retail without a huge expenditure on buying stock, and making a product available to purchase for BTC may win you some business. You can even use a similar method to start selling physical products through ‘dropshipping’, which involves the retailer taking payment for a product from the customer, and then immediately ordering it from their dropship wholesaler, who ships the product direct to the customer.Consider selling items on a decentralized marketplace using one of our guides: Syscoin for sellers and Open Bazaar for Merchants.Monetizing Trust: Escrow Agents & OraclesIf you have built up a name for yourself as somebody that can be trusted (or if your business has), then you may like to consider monetizing this trust by setting yourself up as an escrow agent or oracle.The role of an escrow agent is the arbitrate over disputes. This may involve online purchases, freelance contracts, or other business and trade arrangements. The process is simple: payment is made to a bitcoin address which requires any 2 signatures out of the buyer, the seller and the escrow agent in order to send a transaction. If there is no problem then the buyer and seller sign and payment is made, but if there is a problem then the escrow agent must choose whether to sign the payment or the refund. You can create a profile on websites like Bitrated to promote your services as an escrow agent.Another business which requires a certain degree of trust from your customers is the role of the oracle. Oracles publish information over the blockchain which can be used for betting, for financial derivatives, or for smart contracts. Take a look at our article on how to become a bitcoin oracle for more information about this.Consultancy BusinessesIf you are reading this article then you probably know more about bitcoin than 99% of other people, at the very least. So why not put that knowledge to good use by helping other businesses?Both Bitcoin itself and the blockchain technology which underpins it offer a wealth of opportunities, not only for setting up a new business but also within established businesses. Unfortunately most companies just don’t know how to take advantage of them. This doesn’t just stop at accepting Bitcoin payments, it could involve using the blockchain for low cost notary services, as an asset registry, smart contracts and a lot more besides.Although anybody looking to set themselves up as a consultant must be careful not to overstate their expertise – most general consultancies have teams of people with different backgrounds including programming, law and other areas – there are still profitable niches that anybody with a bit of experience and a willingness to research could take advantage of. For example, approaching small and medium sized retailers in your area and offering to guide them through the various point of sale options, or offering to conduct a presentation on blockchain notary services to a local law firm as a general introduction to what it can offer.Flipping Websites, Apps & BusinessesBusiness flipping is when you buy a business, increase its profitability (or turn it around entirely if its making a loss), and then sell it on in a relatively short period of time. The term is more commonly used for online businesses in the form of website or app flipping, but can also be applied to bricks & mortar businesses.There are many different websites and apps which could benefit from integrating digital currency into what they offer. It is also possible to buy websites and apps for much less than most other businesses, and to ‘flip’ them within a fairly short period of time. Integrating digital currency for in-app purchases or for user-rewards schemes, or simply converting stores to accept BTC payments, may be worth considering as ways to add value to an established business.It is not beyond the imagination to think that some offline businesses may present similar opportunities for an entrepreneur to add value in a short space of time by introducing the use of blockchain technology.Bitcoin Websites & FaucetsAt the risk of creating more competition for ourselves, another possibility is to create a bitcoin related website. When it comes to monetizing your site, there are many advertising networks and affiliate programs which pay out in bitcoin.One of the most popular categories of website in this area is the faucet – a website which pays out a small amount of bitcoin to new users for testing or just for fun.Which one is the best? Try everything and decide for yourself!

Learn about using Java™ Enterprise Edition (Java EE) and IBM® WebSphere® Application Server with this list of essential reading, compiled for customers, consultants, and other technical specialists by IBM Software Services for WebSphere. Updated with resources for new related products, technologies, and feature packs..IntroductionThis list of recommended reading connects you to documents that contain essential information that practitioners should know and understand before diving into Java™ EE application design and implementation using IBM® WebSphere® Application Server.This list is intended for anyone interested in using or learning more about WebSphere Application Server.About versions: Unless otherwise noted, the items in this list contain information that is generally applicable to all currently-supported versions of WebSphere Application Server, even though the information might be discussed in the context of older releases. When an item pertains only to one or more specific versions of WebSphere Application Server (or other IBM software), the applicable versions are noted after the title.About other products: Although this list provides some starting points for learning about Web application development using other IBM products and related technologies, the focus here is on the WebSphere Application Server product family. Check the IBM developerWorks Rational® zone for more comprehensive reference material on Web development and IBM Rational products, the SOA and Web services zone for Service Oriented Architecture articles and design tips, and the Project Zero development community for information about using IBM WebSphere sMash to build rich Internet applications.The listThe items in this list are organized into these categories:Rational Application Developer & WebSphere Application Server compatibilityRational Application Developer V8.0 is now available, and is the latest development tool for WebSphere Application Server V7.0. It can also be used with WebSphere Application Server V6.1 and V6.0, as well as WebSphere Application Server V8.0 beta.Rational Application Developer V7.5 can be used with WebSphere Application Server V7.0, V6.1, and V6.0.Rational Application Developer V7.0 can only be used with WebSphere Application Server V6.1, V6.0, and V5.1.FundamentalsArchitectureAdministrationMigrationData integrationWeb servicesApplication developmentRational Application Developer basicsJava EE developmentWeb 2.0Service Component ArchitectureOSGiDevelopment with XMLOther frameworksSecurityProblem determinationPerformance, scalability, and high availabilityHigh availabilityPerformance tuningVirtualizationWebSphere DataPower AppliancesMaintenanceA. FundamentalsWebSphere Application Server: Product lineWeb site: WebSphere Application Server supports the broadest range of platforms in the industry so your applications can be built to run on the platform that makes most sense for your business. This site provides overview information on the WebSphere Application Server V7 product editions that are available.WebSphere Application ServerWebSphere Application Server V7.0: Technical OverviewRedpaper: WebSphere Application Server is the implementation by IBM of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) platform. It conforms to the Java EE 5 specification and is available in unique packages that are designed to meet a wide range of customer requirements. At the heart of each package is a WebSphere Application Server that provides the runtime environment for enterprise applications. This discussion centers on the runtime server component of WebSphere Application Server.WebSphere Application Server V7.0: Technical OverviewWebSphere Application Server detailed system requirementsWeb site: Detailed hardware and software requirements for all supported releases of WebSphere Application Server. If you are unable to find a reference to a specific version of hardware ot software, remember that this document describes the minimum product levels that need to be installed before opening a problem report with the WebSphere Application Server Support team. Because other products frequently ship fixes, updates, and new releases, testing every configuration is not possible. In general, you can install and run with updates to supported products if those updates are forward compatible. For additional information about available support for configurations that are not included in the list, refer to support article WebSphere Application Server has grown and so have your requirements.WebSphere Application Server detailed system requirementsWebSphere Application Server Feature PacksWeb site: IBM makes additional product features and functions available -- along with some of the latest standards -- through feature packs. With feature packs, you can selectively leverage new standards and features while maintaining a more stable internal release cycle. This page lists all available WebSphere Application Server feature packs. Be aware that some feature packs are generally available, while others might be beta versions.WebSphere Application ServerB. ArchitectureWebSphere Application Server V7: Concepts, Planning and DesignRedbook: Discusses the concepts, planning, and design of WebSphere Application Server V7.0 environments, ranging from small to large, and complex implementations. Addresses the packaging and the features incorporated into WebSphere Application Server, covers the most common implementation topologies, and addresses planning for specific tasks and components that conform to the WebSphere Application Server environment. Includes planning for WebSphere Application Server V7.0 and WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V7.0 on distributed platforms, and WebSphere Application Server for z/OS V7.0, and also covers considerations for migrating from previous releases.WebSphere Application Server V7: Concepts, Planning and DesignThe Ideal WebSphere Development EnvironmentArticle: A description of the ideal environment for WebSphere Application Server and closely related WebSphere products, such as WebSphere Portal. The word "environment" is used in the largest sense possible -- it includes virtually every aspect of enterprise application ownership, from development to production. This article explains why each stage is necessary, and options for reducing costs, when appropriate.IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: The Ideal WebSphere Development EnvironmentDeveloping defensively: Part 1: Defensive architectureArticle: Investigate the principles of defensive architecture and learn approaches for addressing some common architectural problems that could lead to system degradation -- or even overall system failure.Developing defensively: Part 1: Defensive architectureProblem Determination through Defensive Infrastructure Architecture: Part 1: Runtime deployments with queues and ESBsArticle: The widely known "keep it simple strategy" (KISS) is a wise practice to follow when building out an infrastructure. Application deployments, packaging, and placement requires considerable thought and effort to execute well. However, sometimes what appears to be a simple implementation can hinder problem determination leaving a production runtime unstable or, worse, unavailable. What is simpler for one side of the IT development or operations staff makes troubleshooting and root cause analysis that much harder because it is difficult to separate out discrete events or the lack of valuable but missing data. This article looks at some real life examples where "more is actually less" when it comes to KISS.Problem Determination through Defensive Infrastructure Architecture: Part 1: Runtime deployments with queues and ESBsWhat you want to know about HTTP session persistenceArticle: Looking for the right session persistence strategy? Here are answers to questions you might have that will help you find the best solution for your requirements.Comment lines: Erik Burckart: What you want to know about HTTP session persistenceWhy do non-functional requirements matter?Article: Functionality is important, but if you don't consider non-functional requirements -- which address how your solution is going to operate in the real world -- then your clever solution could end up being useless in practice. This is a list of non-functional requirements that are critical to success.Comment lines: Botzum, Brown, Hambrick: Why do non-functional requirements matter?C. AdministrationWhat's new in WebSphere Application Server V7: An overview of important new featuresArticle: IBM WebSphere Application Server V7 has powerful new features and dramatic enhancements to help you achieve heightened productivity, stronger security, tighter integration, and simplified administration. Find out about some of the new key features that enable this new release to provide a flexible and reliable foundation for your service-oriented architecture.What's new in WebSphere Application Server V7System administration for WebSphere Application Server V7Article series: This series of articles describes several important new administration features available in WebSphere Application Server V7:Part 1: An overview of administrative enhancementsSystem administration for WebSphere Application Server V7: Part 1 -- An overview of administrative enhancementsPart 2: New administrative topologiesSystem administration for WebSphere Application Server V7: Part 2: New administrative topologiesPart 3: Administering a flexible management topology (Tutorial)System administration for WebSphere Application Server V7: Part 3: Administering a flexible management topologyPart 4: Properties-based configurationSystem administration for WebSphere Application Server V7: Part 4: Properties-based configurationPart 5: Business-level applicationsSystem administration for WebSphere Application Server V7: Part 5: Business-level applicationsWebSphere Application Server V7 Administration and Configuration GuideApplies to V7Redbook: Provides information to help system administrators and developers configure a WebSphere Application Server V7 run time environment, package and deploy applications, and manage the WebSphere environment on an ongoing basis. This book provides a detailed exploration of the WebSphere Application Server V7 run time administration process, including configuration and administration information for WebSphere Application Server V7 and WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V7 on distributed platforms, and WebSphere Application Server for z/OS V7.WebSphere Application Server V7 Administration and Configuration GuideAlternative reading for V6.1:WebSphere Application Server V6.1: System Management and Configuration (Redbook)WebSphere Application Server V6.1: System Management and ConfigurationIntegrating WebSphere Virtual Enterprise in complex WebSphere Application Server topologiesArticle: Implementing IBM WebSphere Virtual Enterprise in an existing IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment infrastructure can be a complex undertaking without sufficient preparation. This article guides practitioners with discussions on best practices and limitations that need to be considered.Integrating WebSphere Virtual Enterprise in complex WebSphere Application Server topologiesCommand assistance simplifies administrative scripting in WebSphere Application ServerArticle: Command assistance is a feature that provides wsadmin commands in the Jython scripting language for various actions performed within the WebSphere Application Server V7 administrative console. This article offers usage scenarios that could assist you in leveraging the full capabilities of this feature. Those who will benefit most from this information are administrators with beginner to intermediate experience with wsadmin and scripting. Those not familiar with command assistance will learn how to use it, store a history of commands, and make the commands generic through the use of variables.Command assistance simplifies administrative scripting in WebSphere Application ServerAdditional reading:Administrative console actions with command assistance (Information Center)IBM Knowledge CenterEverything you always wanted to know about WebSphere Application Server but were afraid to askColumn series: A series of articles answering frequently asked technical questions about WebSphere Application Server. Some highlights:Part 2: EJB client workload management, sharing sessions across cellsComment lines: Tom Alcott: Everything you always wanted to know about WebSphere Application Server but were afraid to ask -- Part 2Part 5: Deploying across multiple data centers, high availability, disaster recoveryComment lines: Tom Alcott: Everything you always wanted to know about WebSphere Application Server but were afraid to ask, Part 5Using virtual image templates to deploy WebSphere Application ServerArticle: One signNow advantage of server virtualization is the ability to rapidly provision new environments by using libraries of virtual image templates. This article offers an approach and sample scripts for using WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment inside virtual machine templates. The approach leverages new capabilities provided in WebSphere Application Server V6, making the process of creating a template installation that is easily copied and customized for a new host much easier. This article has been updated to include techniques and sample scripts for including WebSphere profiles, applications, and clusters inside WebSphere template images. These new techniques shorten activation time and simplify the use of template images in ISV scenarios, and with WebSphere products such as WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Process Server, and so on.Using virtual image templates to deploy WebSphere Application ServerTactics and tradeoffs in a large shared topology: Facts and advice for infrastructure architects and administratorsArticle: The challenges of managing a large scale topology are best addressed through planning, proactive actions, and strategic decisions, as opposed to attempting to deploy and manage in a reactive manner. This article will help you identify some of the tactics, trade offs, and critical issues that stand between your infrastructure and large scale success.Tactics and tradeoffs in a large shared topologyThe WebSphere Contrarian: Changing host names and migrating profiles in WebSphere Application ServerArticle: If you're moving your WebSphere Application Server configuration or migrating your environment, you might have to change host names or move profiles from one machine to another. This article explains how to do this, whether you're using WebSphere Application Server Version 5.x, 6.x, or 7.The WebSphere Contrarian: Changing host names and migrating profiles in WebSphere Application ServerThe WebSphere Contrarian: Resolving WebSphere Application Server configuration conflictsArticle: Any time there’s more than a single administrator for an IBM WebSphere Application Sever cell, there’s the possibility of conflicting administrative actions. This installment of The WebSphere Contrarian discusses how to detect and resolve conflicting configuration changes.The WebSphere Contrarian: Resolving WebSphere Application Server configuration conflictsD. MigrationHow the Application Migration tool makes it easy to move to WebSphere Application ServerArticle: The IBM WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit contains an Application Migration tool that you can use to easily move applications from a source application server to IBM WebSphere Application Server V7.0. This article introduces the capabilities of this new tool and provides resources to help you start using it.Comment lines by Donald Vines & Andy Hoyt: How the Application Migration tool makes it easy to move to WebSphere Application ServerWebSphere Application Server V7 Migration GuideRedbook: This paper helps you to understand the signNow changes with respect to migrating to WebSphere Application Server on V7.0 and provides several business scenarios that can be implemented through simple customizations. Each scenario addresses a unique requirement that can be mapped with similar business scenarios.WebSphere Application Server V7 Migration GuideWebSphere migrations: Migrating WebLogic server and application configurations to WebSphere Application ServerArticle: Learn to migrate WebLogic application and server configurations to IBM WebSphere Application Server with this article, which identifies those WebLogic proprietary extensions that must be properly mapped for your applications to run on WebSphere Application Server. Solutions to common problems are included so you can navigate your migration with minimum difficulty.WebSphere migrations: Migrating WebLogic server and application configurations to WebSphere Application ServerE. Data integrationWebSphere and Messaging: A brief introduction to the Service Integration BusBlog: A brief primer on the basic concepts and elements that make up this WebSphere Application Server messaging mechanism.A brief introduction to the service integration busWebSphere Application Server V7 Messaging Administration GuideRedbook: WebSphere Application Server V7 supports asynchronous messaging based on the Java Message Service (JMS) and the Java EE Connector Architecture (JCA) specifications. Asynchronous messaging support provides applications with the ability to create, send, receive, and read asynchronous requests, as messages. WebSphere Application Server provides a default messaging provider, as well as support for WebSphere MQ and generic messaging providers.This IBM Redbook publication provides information on the messaging features of WebSphere Application Server V7. It contains information on configuring, securing, and managing messaging resources, with a focus on the WebSphere default messaging provider.WebSphere Application Server V7 Messaging Administration GuideUsing the WebSphere MQ messaging provider in WebSphere Application Server V7Article series: IBM WebSphere Application Server V7 contains key improvements to the way it interoperates with IBM WebSphere MQ as a Java Message Service (JMS) provider. This article provides an overview of the new WebSphere MQ messaging provider with particular focus on its new capabilities and the enhancements in WebSphere Application Server V7.Part 1: Introducing the new WebSphere MQ messaging providerUsing the WebSphere MQ messaging provider in WebSphere Application Server V7: Part 1: Introducing the new WebSphere MQ messaging providerBuilding a high availability database environment using WebSphere middlewareArticle series: This series presents strategies for high availability, workload management, and disaster recovery in WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment and WebSphere Process Server environments with IBM DB2® and Oracle RAC.Part 1: Using DB2 High Availability Disaster Recovery with WebSphere Application ServerIBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Building a high availability database environment using WebSphere middleware, Part 1Part 2: Using Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) with WebSphere Process ServerBuilding a high availability database environment using WebSphere middleware: Part 2: Using Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) with WebSphere Process ServerPart 3: Handling two-phase commit in WebSphere Application Server using OracleBuilding a high availability database environment using WebSphere middleware: Part 3: Handling two-phase commit in WebSphere Application Server using Oracle RACF. Web servicesIBM WebSphere Application Server V7.0 Web Services GuideApplies to Version 7.0Redbook: Describes how to implement Web services in WebSphere Application Server V7. It starts by describing the concepts of the major building blocks on which Web services rely and leading practices for Web services applications. It then illustrates how to use Rational Application Developer and the WebSphere tools to build and deploy a Web services http://application.In addition to the fundamentals of Web services development, this book provides information on advanced topics, including WS-Policy, WS-MetadataExchange, Web services transactions, WS-Notification, Secure conversation, and WS-SecurityKerberos.IBM WebSphere Application Server V7.0 Web Services GuideFeature Pack for Web Services for WebSphere Application Server V6.1Applies to Version 6.1Utility: WebSphere Application Server V7 and WebSphere Application Server V6.1 with the Feature Pack for Web Services support two Web services programming models: JAX-RPC 1.1 and JAX-WS 2.0 (which is the successor to JAX-RPC 1.1. If you are using V6.1 without the feature pack, then you will only have support for JAX-RPC services. You must install the feature pack to get the added JAX-WS 2.0 support. If you are using V7, support for both JAX-WS and JAX-RPC is already built in and so no feature pack is required. Since JAX-WS is the strategic API, you should use that programming model in general for new Web services development.Utility: Feature Pack for Web Services for WebSphere Application Server V6.1Additional reading:Web Services Feature Pack for WebSphere Application Server V6.1 (Redbook)Web Services Feature Pack for WebSphere Application Server V6.1Which style of WSDL should I use?Article: A Web Services Description Language (WSDL) binding style can be RPC or document. The use can be encoded or literal. How do you determine which combination of style and use to use? The author describes the WSDL and SOAP messages for each combination to help you decide.Which style of WSDL should I use?Web services hints and tips: JAX-RPC vs JAX-WSApplies to Version 6.1 and 7.0Article series: JAX-WS 2.0 is the successor to JAX-RPC 1.1. This series compares these two Java Web services programming models.Part 1: IntroductionWeb services hints and tips: JAX-RPC versus JAX-WS, Part 1Part 2: A look at the differences in data mappingWeb services hints and tips: JAX-RPC versus JAX-WS, Part 2Part 3: The service endpoint interfaceWeb services hints and tips: JAX-RPC versus JAX-WS, Part 3Part 4: The dynamic invocation interfacesWeb services hints and tips: JAX-RPC versus JAX-WS, Part 4Part 5: Comparing attachment files: Sw/A and MTOMWeb services hints and tips: JAX-RPC versus JAX-WS, Part 5Create RESTful Web services with Java technologyArticle: JAX-RS (JSR-311) is a Java API that enables quick and easy development of Java RESTful services. The API provides an annotation-based model for describing distributed resources. Annotations are used to provide resource location, resource representation, and a pluggable data binding architecture. In this article, learn how you can use JAX-RS to realize the potential of a RESTful services architecture in a Java EE environment.Create RESTful Web services with Java technologyWeb services SOAP message validationArticle: Learn the history and the underlying technologies of Web services.Build a Web service using bottom-up development method. Transmit, receive, decrypt, validate SOAP messages and verify digital signatures of SOAP messages with the Web services validation tool for WSDL and SOAP. Explore a real world Web service such as the U.S. National Weather Service with the Web services validation tool for WSDL and SOAP.Web services SOAP message validationWS-Notification in WebSphere Application Server V7Applies to Version 7.0Article series: Learn how to develop JAX-WS applications for use with the updated WS-Notification functionality included with WebSphere Application Server V7.0. Some familiarity with Java-based Web services, the WS-Notification 1.3 family of specifications, and some experience using the WebSphere Application Server administration console is expected.Part 1: Writing JAX-WS applications for WS-NotificationWS-Notification in WebSphere Application Server V7: Part 1: Writing JAX-WS applications for WS-NotificationPart 2: Configuring JAX-WS applications with WS-Security for WS-NotificationWS-Notification in WebSphere Application Server V7: Part 2: Configuring JAX-WS applications with WS-Security for WS-NotificationMessage-level security with JAX-WS on WebSphere Application Server V7Applies to Version 7.0Tutorial: Demonstrates how to build a JAX-WS client and server Web service that runs on WebSphere Application Server V7. Additionally, it teaches you how to configure message-level security for the SOAP message by configuring policy sets through Rational Application Developer V7.5.2.Part 1: Using Rational Application Developer V7.5.2 to build secure JAX-WS Web servicesMessage-level security with JAX-WS on WebSphere Application Server V7, Part 1: Using Rational Application Developer V7.5.2 to build secure JAX-WS Web servicesPart 2: Integrating JEE authorizationMessage-level security with JAX-WS on WebSphere Application Server V7, Part 2: Integrating JEE authorizationDevelop a SOAP/JMS JAX-WS Web services application with WebSphere Application Server V7 and Rational Application Developer V7.5Applies to Version 7.0Tutorial: WebSphere Application Server V7 provides support for SOAP over Java Message Service (JMS) with JAX-WS Web service applications. SOAP over JMS can be used as an alternative to SOAP over HTTP for transmitting SOAP request and response messages. This tutorial shows you how to use Rational Application Developer V7.5 to develop and deploy a JAX-WS Web service application that uses SOAP over JMS.Develop a SOAP/JMS JAX-WS Web services application with WebSphere Application Server V7 and Rational Application Developer V7.5JAX-WS client APIs in the Web Services Feature Pack for WebSphere Application Server V6.1Applies to Version 6.1Article series: An introduction to JAX-WS 2.0, the new programming model supported in the WebSphere Application Server V6.1 Feature Pack for Web Services.Part 1: Creating a dispatch clientInternal server errorPart 2: Creating a proxy clientInternal server errorPart 3: Using the JAX-WS asynchronous programming modelInternal server errorTop 8 tips to optimize your web services client in WebSphereApplies to Versions 6.1 and 7.0Web site: If you use WebSphere Application Server to develop your Web services client application, this list will help you optimize the client.http://www.websphere-world.com/m...Back to topG. Application developmenta. Rational Application Developer basicsWhat's new in IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5Applies to Rational Application Developer Version 7.5Article: An overview of the new features of IBM Rational Application Developer V7.5. As it is the successor to Version 7.0, a basic familiarity with Rational Application Developer in general is useful.What's new in IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5Rational Application Developer V7.5 Programming GuideApplies to Rational Application Developer Version 7.5Redbook: Programming guide that highlights the features and tooling included with Rational Application Developer V7.5. Many of the chapters provide working examples that demonstrate how to use the tooling to develop applications, as well as achieve the benefits of visual and rapid application development.Rational Application Developer V7.5 Programming GuideAlternative reading for Rational Application Developer V7:Rational Application Developer V7 Programming GuideRational Application Developer V7 Programming Guideb. Java EE developmentAn update on Java Persistence API 2.0Article: As the JPA Expert Group (JSR-317) nears completion of the JPA 2.0 specification, this article introduces you to some of the new concepts and features in this updated specification. It also explains how you can experience this new functionality with the Apache OpenJPA project, an open-source, robust, high performance, scalable implementation of the JPA specification.Comment lines by Kevin Sutter: An update on Java Persistence API 2.0The top Java EE best PracticesArticle: A top 10 (+9) list of the most important best practices for Java EE application development. Updated to take into account changing technology trends and, more importantly, recommends certain practices that the authors assumed would be commonly followed, but, as they have learned, are not.IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: The top Java EE best practicesRational Application Developer V7.5: Using the Java Persistence APIDemo: Shows how to use the new Java EE 5 Java Persistence API (JPA) framework to create simple JPA entity and manager beans. This is part of a series of demonstrations that show the new features of Rational Application Developer Version 7.5.Internal server errorResource injection using Rational Application Developer v7.5Article: Java EE has simplified the development of complete enterprise applications. Using resource injection through annotation, much standard code is eliminated, which contributes to maintainable code. Your organization might have numerous existing, complex stored procedures. You can continue to develop your applications that use stored procedures and take advantage of the Java platform.Resource injection using Rational Application Developer v7.5Building Java EE applications with IBM Rational Application Developer V7.5 and WebSphere Application Server V7.0: A step-by-step guide to creating Java EE V5.0 applicationsArticle: Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software Version 7.5 contains tools to create Java EE applications utilizing JPA and EJB 3.0 technology. Rational Application Developer V7.5 introduces new wizards, editors, and perspectives to create powerful applications easily. This article, targeted for intermediate users, walks you through various new features and shows you how to create an end-to-end Java EE application.Building Java EE applications with IBM Rational Application Developer V7.5 and WebSphere Application Server V7.0Building EJB 3.0 applications with WebSphere Application Server: Using the WebSphere Application Server V6.1 Feature Pack for Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0Applies to Version 6.1 onlyArticle: EJB 3.0 is a major step forward in simplifying application development in the enterprise. By using the IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1 Feature Pack for Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, you can benefit from the simplified development experience, new persistence model, and new features such as interceptors, while still deploying to a robust WebSphere platform.Building EJB 3.0 applications with WebSphere Application ServerWhat's new in JavaServer Faces tooling in IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5Article: This article highlights the most important new features for JavaServer™ Faces support in Rational Application Developer V7.5.What's new in JavaServer Faces tooling in IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5Understanding how EJB calls operate in WebSphere Application Server V6.1Article: Many applications use Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) deployed in an WebSphere Application Server EJB container. Communication to these EJB components requires the use of concepts like Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP) communication, JNDI look-ups, and workload management. This interaction can be complex and is often a black box for many WebSphere users. This article provides a basic understanding of how EJB communication works in the context of WebSphere Application Server. Communication into and out of the ORB is addressed, along with the definitions of basic call patterns and components involved in making calls to EJB components deployed in the EJB container. A basic understanding of J2EE™ principles and general administrative knowledge of WebSphere Application Server is assumed.Understanding how EJB calls operate in WebSphere Application Server V6.1c. Web 2.0RESTful Web services: The basicsArticle: Representational State Transfer (REST) has gained widespread acceptance across the Web as a simpler alternative to SOAP- and Web Services Description Language (WSDL)-based Web services. Key evidence of this shift in interface design is the adoption of REST by mainstream Web 2.0 service providers—including Yahoo, Google, and Facebook—who have deprecated or passed on SOAP and WSDL-based interfaces in favor of an easier-to-use, resource-oriented model to expose their services. This article introduces you to the basic principles of REST.RESTful Web services: The basicsMoving toward Web 2.0 maturityArticle: Web 2.0 applications are quickly becoming the mainstream. Rich Internet Applications and social networks are everywhere. Browser maturity, network speed, and HTTP infrastructure have contributed to this. Ajax is the main service invocation model for the client. Middleware is becoming more stateless. All this, and yet many people still hold on to a legacy mindset when building these modern applications, which can lead to some difficult technical scenarios.Comment lines: Moving toward Web 2.0 maturityBuilding Dynamic Ajax Applications Using WebSphere Feature Pack for Web 2.0Applies to Versions 6.1 and 7.0Redbook: Demonstrates techniques and technologies available through the WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for Web 2.0 for building dynamic, next-generation Web applications. It covers connecting to SOA services from Ajax using lightweight protocols REST and JSON, extending enterprise messaging to the Web using Ajax messaging, speeding up Ajax application time to market using the Ajax Development Toolkit featuring Dojo, and more.Building Dynamic Ajax Applications Using WebSphere Feature Pack for Web 2.0Web 2.0 Application Development using JPA, AJAX, and Dojo tools in Rational Application Developer Version 7.5: Rational Application Developer provides new features to make Web 2.0 application construction easyArticle: Explains how to create a simple end-to-end Web application using the JPA, AJAX, and Dojo tools available in Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software V7.5. Developers building applications to run on WebSphere Application Servers with the EJB 3 and Web 2.0 Feature Packs can take advantage of new functionality using Rational Application Developer's new Web tools.Web 2.0 Application Development using JPA, AJAX, and Dojo tools in Rational Application Developer Version 7.5d. Service Component ArchitectureExploring the WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for SCAApplies to Version 7.0Article series: An introduction to open Service Component Architecture (SCA) concepts, objectives of the technology, and some of the key integration points that provide great value to WebSphere Application Server V7.0 users.Part 1: An overview of the Service Component Architecture feature packExploring the WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for SCA, Part 1: An overview of the Service Component Architecture feature packPart 2: Web services policy setsExploring the WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for SCA, Part 2: Web services policy setsPart 3: Intents and policies available in the SCA feature packExploring the WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for SCA, Part 3: Intents and policies available in the SCA feature packPart 4: SCA Java annotations and component implementationExploring the WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for SCA, Part 4: SCA Java annotations and component implementationPart 5: Protocol bindings for Service Component Architecture servicesExploring the WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for SCA, Part 5: Protocol bindings for Service Component Architecture servicesPart 6: Using Spring with Service Component ArchitectureExploring the WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for SCA, Part 6: Using Spring with Service Component Architecturee. OSGiInnovations within signNow: Are we ready for enterprise OSGi?Article: Over the past year, there have been many heated debates over the readiness or otherwise of OSGi for enterprise applications. OSGi is a proven and tested technology, so in that sense it's been "ready" for a long time. What has been missing are specifications and implementations of tools and frameworks that are required for Java EE programmers to properly utilise OSGi enterprise features. The recent release of the OSGi Service Platform Enterprise Specification (4.2) and the announcement of the IBM WebSphere Application Server V7 Feature Pack for OSGi Applications and Java Persistence API (JPA) 2.0 changes this. Here is an overview of this new feature pack and the reasoning behind its development.Innovations within signNow: Are we ready for enterprise OSGi?Best practices for developing and working with OSGi applicationsArticle: For over a decade, OSGi technology has solved application development modularity challenges around complexity, extensibility, and maintenance. With the introduction of the IBM WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for OSGi Applications and JPA 2.0, enterprise Java applications consisting of OSGi bundles can now be developed and deployed to WebSphere Application Server V7. This article describes best practices for developing well constructed OSGi applications to help you benefit most effectively from this new capability.Best practices for developing and working with OSGi applicationsf. Development with XMLProgramming XML across the multiple tiers: Use XML in the middle tier for performance, fidelity, and development easeArticle: Programming XML across the multiple tiers: Use XML in the middle tier for performance, fidelity, and development ease.Programming XML across the multiple tiers: Use XML in the middle tier for performance, fidelity, and development easeh. Other frameworksUsing Spring and Hibernate with WebSphere Application ServerArticle: If you're considering using Spring or Hibernate with WebSphere Application Server, this article explains how to configure these frameworks for various scenarios with WebSphere Application Server. This article is neither an endorsement nor an exhaustive review of either framework, but a critical reference to help you successfully implement such scenarios. Recently updated with new security information.Using Spring and Hibernate with WebSphere Application ServerBack to topH. SecurityQ & A: Frequently asked questions about WebSphere Application Server securityArticle: Because the integrity of your processing environment is at stake, questions about security must be answered as quickly as possible. To that end, this article provides quick, direct answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about IBM WebSphere Application Server security.Q & A: Frequently asked questions about WebSphere Application Server securityImplementing Kerberos in a WebSphere Application Server EnvironmentRedbook: This book provides a set of common examples and scenarios that demonstrate how to use the Kerberos with WebSphere Application Server. The scenarios include configuration information for WebSphere Application Server V7 when using a KDC from Microsoft®, AIX®, and z/OS® as well as considerations when using these products.Implementing Kerberos in a WebSphere Application Server EnvironmentWebSphere Application Server V7 advanced security hardeningArticle series: Security consists of more than just some firewalls at the edge of your network protecting you from the outside. It is a difficult and complex set of actions and procedures that strive to strengthen your systems as much as is appropriate. This article covers many aspects of security in general, details the IBM WebSphere Application Server security architecture, and discusses hardening a WebSphere Application Server environment.Part 1: Overview and approach to security hardeningWebSphere Application Server V7 advanced security hardening, Part 1: Overview and approach to security hardeningPart 2: Advanced security considerationsWebSphere Application Server V7 advanced security hardening, Part 2: Advanced security considerationsSAML assertions across WebSphere Application Server security domainsArticle: Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is fast becoming the technology of choice to create Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions across enterprise boundaries. This article describes how to use the SAML support in IBM WebSphere Application Server V7.0 Fix Pack 7 to assert SAML tokens across enterprise boundaries in different security domains, and also to make access control decisions directly using the foreign security domain user identity and custom SAML group attribute, all based on the trust relationship.SAML assertions across WebSphere Application Server security domainsWebSphere Application Server V7.0 Security GuideApplies to Version 7.0Redbook: Information needed to implement secure solutions with WebSphere Application Server V7.0. This book focuses on security for the application server and its components, including enterprise applications. This book is intended for anyone that plans to secure applications and the application serving environment.WebSphere Application Server V7.0 Security GuideAlternative reading for Version 6.1:IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1 Security HandbookIBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1 Security HandbookAdministering SPNEGO within WebSphere Application Server: Tips on using Kerberos service principal namesArticle: The Simple and Protected GSS-API Negotiation (SPNEGO) trust association interceptor (TAI) in IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1 and in the SPNEGO Web Authentication feature in WebSphere Application Server V7.0 can be a powerful tool to achieve a seamless single sign-on environment between Microsoft Windows desktops and WebSphere-based servers. However, some users have trouble configuring service principal names when using SPNEGO. This article describes some best practices for configuring Microsoft Active Directory when using SPNEGO with WebSphere Application Server.Administering SPNEGO within WebSphere Application Server: Tips on using Kerberos service principal namesSSL, certificate, and key management enhancements for even stronger security in WebSphere Application Server V6.1Article: Exciting changes have been made to the SSL, certificate, and key management infrastructure in IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1. This article touches on how these changes will improve security, provide management flexibility and simplification, and maintain a consistent SSL runtime that is tightly integrated with the new configuration.IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: SSL, certificate, and key management enhancements for even stronger security in WebSphere Application Server V6.1Database identity propagation in WebSphere Application Server V6Article: Learn how to get major security benefits by developing code that lets your J2EE applications transparently send identity information to your database. Get the benefits of J2EE, including CMP beans, and still leverage the power of your database security.IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Database identity propagation in WebSphere Application Server V6Authorization concepts and solutions for J2EE applicationsArticle: Authorization architecture can be an ugly and problematic beast. Learn how to gear your application's development to effectively use the authorization features in IBM WebSphere Application Server.Authorization concepts and solutions for J2EE applicationsAdvanced authentication in WebSphere Application ServerArticle: The advanced authentication features in IBM WebSphere Application Server V6 support a more flexible authentication model with a new, highly customizable authentication framework that is based upon -- and extends -- Java™ Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS).IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Advanced authentication in WebSphere Application ServerExpand your user registry options with a federated repository in WebSphere Application Server V6.1Article: IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1 offers a new federated user repository feature that makes it easy for you to access and maintain user data in multiple repositories, particularly since this capability is achieved by configuration (instead of coding) with the Virtual Member Manager utility.IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Expand your user registry options with a federated repository in WebSphere Application Server V6.1Back to topI. Problem determinationThe Support Authority: What’s new in IBM Support Assistant V4.1Article: IBM Support Assistant is a free serviceability workbench provided by IBM to facilitate self-help diagnostics for software problems. This article provides an overview of the newest features included in the IBM Support Assistant Workbench and Agent V4.1 software offerings.The Support Authority: What’s new in IBM Support Assistant V4.1The Support Authority: Know what your Web application is really doingArticle: The IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools for Java - Health Center is a lightweight tool that monitors IBM virtual machines for Java with minimal performance overhead. It provides live information and recommendations about classes being loaded, the virtual machine environment, garbage collection, locking, and profiling. This article introduces you to the Health Center and shows an example of how it can be used to check the impact of a source code change in a Web application.The Support Authority: Know what your Web application is really doingThe Support Authority: Analyze memory management problems with the Memory Dump Diagnostic for Java (MDD4J)Article: The Memory Dump Diagnostic for Java (MDD4J) tool helps you diagnose memory leaks and other excessive memory consumption problems in applications running in IBM Java Virtual Machines (JVMs). This article introduces you to MDD4J and shows you how to use its sophisticated analysis engine and user interface to peer into the Java heap so you can see which objects are consuming the most amount of memory.The Support Authority: Analyze memory management problems with the Memory Dump Diagnostic for Java (MDD4J)The Support Authority: A systematic approach to problem solvingArticle: Problem determination is not an exact science, but it's also not rocket science. A methodical approach will help your problem solving techniques become more organized, systematic, and, ultimately, more effective.The Support Authority: A systematic approach to problem solvingThe Support Authority: 12 ways you can prepare for effective production troubleshootingArticle: Rather than focus on what to do after a problem happens, here are 12 things you can do to your environment now to make troubleshooting quicker and more effective when problems do occur.The Support Authority: 12 ways you can prepare for effective production troubleshootingThe Support Authority: Choosing the right WebSphere diagnostic toolArticle: This article provides a quick reference guide to help you decide which of the most common WebSphere diagnostic tools to use at any given time, and some background information that provides a glimpse into how problem determination tools are developed.The Support Authority: Choosing the right WebSphere diagnostic toolDeploying and troubleshooting co-located applications within WebSphere Application ServerArticle: Deploying multiple collocated applications within a single instance of WebSphere Application Server provides valuable benefits in some environments, but it can also create some unique difficulties in the areas of problem isolation and problem determination. This article examines techniques and best practices for maintaining the advantages of application co-location, while reducing the impact of potential pitfalls.IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Deploying and troubleshooting co-located applications within WebSphere Application ServerThe Support Authority: A developer's guide to WebSphere Application Server loggingArticle: Log messages and trace information can be critical, time-saving elements in the initial stages of problem diagnosis, and can often alleviate the need to recreate a problem in order to troubleshoot it. This article looks at the log and trace facilities in WebSphere Application Server, explains the difference between them, and describes how you can leverage them in your own applications.The Support Authority: A developer's guide to WebSphere Application Server loggingBack to topJ. Performance, scalability, and high availabilityHAM, digestedArticle: Here is a handy pocket reference providing information, tuning tips, links to material, and more, on the High Availability Manager component of IBM® WebSphere® Application Server. This is must-have information for any WebSphere Application Server administrators who deal with large cell topologies.Comment lines by Kevin Kepros: HAM, digestedThe WebSphere Contrarian: Run time management high availability options, reduxArticle: IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment provides for failover and recovery of application workload, but how do you provide for failover of the management workload in a Network Deployment cell? The WebSphere Contrarian explains the steps you need to take to achieve this.The WebSphere Contrarian: Run time management high availability options, reduxThe WebSphere Contrarian: High availability (again) versus continuous availabilityArticle: While often used synonymously, high availability and continuous availability do in fact differ, although an infrastructure to provide either of these service levels typically relies on multiple redundant IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment cells.The WebSphere Contrarian: High availability (again) versus continuous availabilityThe WebSphere Contrarian: A better Web application configuration for high availabilityArticle: Adding hardware doesn't always improve failover and availablity for Web application requests. The WebSphere Contrarian discusses why this is the case, as well as some possible alternatives.The WebSphere Contrarian: A better Web application configuration for high availabilityConsider multiple cells for redundancy and availabilityArticle: A multiple cell strategy within your IBM WebSphere Application Server environment enables you to address planned (and unplanned) maintenance while still providing 24x7 availability.Comment lines by Alexandre Polozoff: Consider multiple cells for redundancy and availabilityComment lines: Everything you always wanted to know about WebSphere Application Server but were afraid to ask, Part 3Article: Answers to more very frequently asked questions about IBM® WebSphere® Application Server, including how to run it over multiple data centers, which JDK to use, and why (and when) you should migrate to Version V6.1.Comment lines: Tom Alcott: Everything you always wanted to know about WebSphere Application Server but were afraid to ask -- Part 3The WebSphere Contrarian: Less might be more when tuning WebSphere Application ServerArticle: Aggressive tuning doesn't always equate with improved application performance. This installment of The WebSphere Contrarian discusses why this is the case and provides some high level performance tuning guidance.The WebSphere Contrarian: Less might be more when tuning WebSphere Application ServerCase study: Tuning WebSphere Application Server V7 for performanceArticle: IBM WebSphere Application Server supports an ever-growing range of applications, each with their own unique set of features, requirements, and services. Just as no two applications will use an application server in exactly the same way, no single set of tuning parameters will likely provide the best performance for any two different applications. Most applications will generally realize some performance improvement from tuning in three core areas: the JVM, thread pools, and connection pools.Tuning WebSphere Application Server V7 and V8 for performancePerformance Testing Protocol for WebSphere Application Server-based ApplicationsArticle: This article provides a protocol for conducting performance testing to determine the optimal environmental settings for an application in a variety of load scenarios. Topics include planning the performance environment, performing the actual testing, and measuring the application's performance characteristics.Internal server errorThe WebSphere Contrarian: Back to Basics: Session FailoverArticle: Are you using HttpSession the way you're supposed to? The Java Servlet API provides the HttpSession interface for session tracking and state management across multiple request invocations so servlets can associate a given user to a series of requests. But if you're experiencing poor database or network performance, or frequent garbage collections for your application servers, then you might be using HttpSession more like an application cacheThe WebSphere Contrarian: Back to basics: Session failoverWebSphere Application Server V6 Scalability and Performance HandbookRedbook: A discussion of the various options for scaling applications based on IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V6. This book explores how a basic WebSphere configuration can be extended to provide more computing power by better leveraging the power of each machine and by using multiple machines.WebSphere Application Server V6 Scalability and Performance HandbookBack to topK. VirtualizationThe WebSphere Contrarian: Effectively leveraging virtualization with WebSphere Application ServerArticle: If you're planning on (or have already adopted) a virtualization strategy, a few simple practices can go a long way in avoiding conflicts between virtualization and IBM WebSphere Application Server.The WebSphere Contrarian: Effectively leveraging virtualization with WebSphere Application ServerThe "special sauce" inside the WebSphere CloudBurst ApplianceArticle: The secret ingredient inside the new IBM WebSphere CloudBurst™ Appliance and IBM WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition isn't a secret, but it is revolutionary. This article reveals the "special sauce" inside these two products that differentiates them from general purpose provisioning and virtualization management products.Comment lines by Ruth Willenborg: The "special sauce" inside the WebSphere CloudBurst ApplianceCustomizing with WebSphere CloudBurst, Part 5: Maintaining virtualized WebSphere Application Server environmentsArticle: The IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance provides the capability to create highly customized IBM WebSphere Application Server environments and then deploy them into their own cloud. However, the job of the appliance does not end once the environments have been deployed. WebSphere CloudBurst delivers users function that helps you update and maintain these environments. This article discusses how to use WebSphere CloudBurst to apply WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition iFixes, fixpacks, and your own fixes to both images and actual WebSphere Application Server virtual system environments.Customizing with WebSphere CloudBurst, Part 5: Maintaining virtualized WebSphere Application Server environmentsIBM Extreme Transaction Processing (XTP) patterns: Fast and scalable asynchronous processing with WebSphere eXtreme ScaleArticle: Modern enterprise systems are being confronted with the need for more complex processing, coupled with higher loads and greater demand for resources. This reality is driving a need for separation of functional units and motivating the use of asynchronous methods to accomplish work and aggregate results. This article describes an example that brings the power and scalability of IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale to work on the problem, providing nearly limitless flexibility and expandability to the asynchronous paradigm.IBM Extreme Transaction Processing (XTP) patterns: Fast and scalable asynchronous processing with WebSphere eXtreme ScaleGetting Started with WebSphere eXtreme Scale, Part 1: Understanding WebSphere eXtreme Scale and how it worksArticle: This introductory article offers a foundation to help you gain a technical understanding of what IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale is, the features it provides, and the vast benefits it offers.Getting Started with WebSphere eXtreme Scale, Part 1: Understanding WebSphere eXtreme Scale and how it worksGetting Started with WebSphere eXtreme Scale, Part 1: Understanding WebSphere eXtreme Scale and how it worksArticle: IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale is a general-purpose, high-speed caching solution that can be configured and used in a variety of different designs. However, you can’t just blindly use the APIs provided with WebSphere eXtreme Scale and assume it will reduce the pressure on your overworked database and make your application run faster. Caching as a strategy for improving application performance must be applied judiciously and with care. This article examines a number of best practices that will help you build high performance and highly resilient WebSphere eXtreme Scale applications.Principles and best practices for building high performing and highly resilient WebSphere eXtreme Scale applicationsKnow Your Large Cache Options with WebSphere Application ServerArticle: Caching large amounts of application data doesn't always mandate the use of a 64-bit JDK in order to leverage 64-bit addressing. The ObjectGrid component of IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale provides a 32-bit JDK alternative that you can use in your existing infrastructure without requiring additional physical memory on your servers.Know your WebSphere Application Server options for a large cache implementationIBM Extreme Transaction Processing (XTP) Patterns: Scalable and robust HTTP session management with WebSphere eXtreme ScaleArticle: This article shows you how to use WebSphere Extreme Scale as a separate in-memory data grid to store HTTP sessions. After describing existing software, the article shows how Extreme Scale addresses scalability challenges in a cost effective manner and simplifies the implementation of an Extreme Scale grid.IBM Extreme Transaction Processing (XTP) Patterns: Scalable and robust HTTP session management with WebSphere eXtreme ScaleWebSphere Virtual Enterprise and Service Level DifferentiationArticle: WebSphere Virtual Enterprise can provide Service Level Differentiation for incoming requests. However, getting appropriate results requires careful configuration. This article describes the behavior of WebSphere Virtual Enterprise with regards to Service Level Differentiation and discusses how to create appropriate configurations.WebSphere Virtual Enterprise and Service Level DifferentiationBack to topL. WebSphere DataPower AppliancesThe (XML) threat is out there...Article: New technologies mean new types of attacks on systems and data. Knowing what kinds of attacks are possible is one step toward protect your environment from them. Another may be the implementation of a new type of hardware appliance like those available from DataPower.Comment lines: Bill Hines: The (XML) threat is out there...Lookin' out my back doorArticle: If your front door is the only one that's locked, would you consider your home secure? Similarly, arming your application with only basic security measures is not enough to protect it from all possible intrusions. Here are some common "back door" security mistakes and precautions you can take to avoid them, inspired by a classic rock song.Comment lines: Bill Hines: Lookin' out my back doorOffload WebSphere Web services security tasks to IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA AppliancesArticle series: This article series guides you through the process of integrating WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances with WebSphere Application Server to improve your secure Web service installation.Part 1: Configure a Web service client and service for asymmetric securityOffload WebSphere web services security tasks to IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances, Part 1: Configure a web service client and service for asymmetric securityPart 2: Configuring a WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance Web service proxy for WS-Security Asymmetric SecurityOffload WebSphere web services security tasks to IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances: Part 2: Configuring a WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance web service proxy for WS-Security Asymmetric SecurityPart 3: Using WebSphere DataPower Policy FrameworkOffload WebSphere web services security tasks to IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances: Part 3: Using WebSphere DataPower Policy FrameworkDawn of a new (DataPower) dayArticle: The latest firmware update for IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances, IBM’s most unusual and exciting product line, is chock full of important new features. DataPower appliances are poised to move into the next generation with Web 2.0 and many other enhanced capabilities.Comment lines by Bill Hines: Dawn of a new (DataPower) dayManaging WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances via the WebSphere Application Server V7 Administrative ConsoleArticle: WebSphere Application Server V7 includes administrative function to manage multiple DataPower appliances using the Administrative Console (also known as the Integrated Solutions Console). This administrative function is based on the WebSphere DataPower Appliance Manager, and provides a comprehensive set of capabilities to manage multiple appliances that share the same configuration, or firmware replicas of an appliance designated as the master (primary) appliance.Managing WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances via the WebSphere Application Server V7 Administrative ConsoleWS-Policy security integration between DataPower and WebSphere Application ServerArticle: This article shows you how to configure WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance and WebSphere Application Server to implement WS-Policy for SOA service governance. User credentials are transformed in an LPTA common token format for authorization and single-sign-on between DataPower and an application hosted on WebSphere Application Server. Offloading policy management to DataPower lets WebSphere Application Server provide better application-level functionality, while DataPower provides enterprise-wide, high-performance service governance.WS-Policy security integration between DataPower and WebSphere Application ServerBack to topM. MaintenanceRecommended fixes for WebSphere Application ServerWeb site: A comprehensive list of recommended, generally available (GA) fixes for WebSphere Application Server releases. Pay close attention to the vulnerability fixes that can be found by following the security bulletin link from the recommended fixes by release.Recommended fixes for WebSphere Application ServerThe Support Authority: Introducing the new IBM Support PortalArticle: The IBM Support Portal is the latest addition to the portfolio of self-help tools for IBM software. With its new look and feel, you get an unprecedented and consistent support interface for all IBM products -- which you can customize to suit your specific support needs.The Support Authority: Introducing the new IBM Support PortalWebSphere product lifecycle datesWeb site: Detailed information about the available IBM Software Support Lifecycle Policies to help you realize the full value of your IBM software products.WebSphere software lifecycle datesBack to topAcknowledgementsSpecial thanks to Tom Alcott, Keys Botzum, Russell Butek, Bill Hines, Roland Barcia, and Alexandre Polozoff for their contributions.ResourcesDocumentationIBM WebSphere Application Server Information Center (all versions)IBM Rational Application Developer Information Center (all versions)IBM WebSphere RedbooksRecommended retail booksPerformance Analysis for Java Websites, Stacy Joines, Ruth Willenborg, Ken Hygh, 2002, Addison-Wesley, ISBN: 0201844540Persistence in the Enterprise: A Guide to Persistence Technologies, Geoffrey Hambrick, Kyle Brown, Roland Barcia, Robert Peterson, Kulvir Bhogal, 2008, IBM Press, ISBN: 0131587560Application Architecture for WebSphere: A Practical Approach to Building WebSphere Applications, Joey Bernal, 2008, IBM Press, ISBN: 0137129262IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance Handbook, Bill Hines, John Rasmussen, Jaime Ryan, Simon Kapadia, Jim Brennan, 2009, IBM Press, ISBN: 0137148194IBM WebSphere: Deployment and Advanced Configuration, Roland Barcia, Bill Hines, Tom Alcott, Keys Botzum, 2004, IBM Press, ISBN: 0131468626WebSphere support and downloadsWebSphere Application Server support for fast access to problem solving resources.Technotes contain valuable programming tips, Q&As, and workarounds, updated regularly by WebSphere Application Server support and development teams.WebSphere Application Server trial product downloadsThe Support Authority discusses resources, tools, and other elements of IBM Technical Support that are available for WebSphere products, plus techniques and new ideas that can further enhance your IBM support experience.BlogsThese blogs are authored by WebSphere Application Server experts, who regularly provide information on developing J2EE applications with WebSphere Application Server in easily digestible chunks:WebSphere Performance by Alexandre PolozoffWeb 2.0 and Middleware by Roland BarciaWebSphere: Into the wild BLUE yonder! by Jerry CuomoWebSphere CommunityWebSphere and MessagingWebSphere and Java PersistenceWebSphere educationThe IBM Education Assistant integrates narrated presentations, tutorials, and resource links to help you successfully use the WebSphere family of products. Included are tutorials on overview, installation, migration, programming model, security, high availability, and many other topics related to WebSphere Application Server.IBM Education Assistant Information