RAD6 a hate/love relationship

I will qualify my experience with RAD6 as hate/love relationship. It has a lot of cool features but is still pretty unstable. I am currently reinstalling it has blew up when I tried to secure one of my servers! So, this not to say that I currently hate it very much this is just that I am very angry.

One thing that could be useful for unfortunate RAD6 users it to know that in RAD6, your server configs are stored in the runtime profile directories and they are not local to your workspace. If you want a different server config for each workspace, you need to use the ProfileCreation tool (rad6/runtimes/base_v6/pctWindows.exe) to create a new profile for WAS and then point your server definition in RAD6 to the new profile.) Furthermore, you can have a look at this technote that describes the problem in detail and explain how to correct this using the AdminConsole.

I am back to my freshly installed RAD6 for more fun.

Web Services Proof of Concept

I am currently working on a Web Services Proof of Concept for a Zurich based Reinsurance company. This figure illustrates the technologies that I will be evaluating (I hope that my figure has been added):

Performance is obviously an issue and I hope I will be able to contribute to the “SOAP slow or fast debate?” debate. Moreover, I’ll report very soon about my experience with RAD 6.