Archive for the Category: Unix

New features between Java 8 and Java 17

September 24, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Ondro Mihályi has just posted a blog item called: New features between Java 8 and Java 17 https://ondro.inginea.eu/index.php/new-features-in-java-versions-since-java-8/ It is very handy when you are trying to write backwards compatible code. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Adoptium Released Java 17 Builds

September 24, 2021 Roger Lacroix

The Eclipse Adoptium (previously known as Adopt OpenJDK) has released Java 17 builds for AIX ppc64, alpine-Linux x64, Linux aarch64, Linux arm32, Linux ppcle64, Linux s390x, Linux x64, Mac aarch64, Mac x64, Windows x32 & x64. The mission of the Eclipse Adoptium Top-Level Project is to produce high-quality runtimes and associated technology for use within […]

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Java 17 Released

September 15, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Oracle has just released Java 17. https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/oracle-releases-java-17-2021-09-14/ https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/17/ https://www.infoworld.com/article/3606833/jdk-17-the-new-features-in-java-17.html Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) lets you develop and deploy Java applications on desktops and servers, as well as in today’s demanding embedded environments. Java offers the rich user interface, performance, versatility, portability, and security that today’s applicationsrequire. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 9.1.0.9 Released

August 26, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released Fix Pack 9.1.0.9 for IBM MQ V9.1 LTS: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/downloading-ibm-mq-9109 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM Announces IBM Semeru Runtimes

August 4, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM has introduced no-cost IBM Semeru Runtimes to develop and run Java applications. https://developer.ibm.com/blogs/introducing-the-ibm-semeru-runtimes/ https://developer.ibm.com/languages/java/semeru-runtimes/ IBM Semeru Runtimes use the class libraries from OpenJDK, along with the Eclipse OpenJ9 Java Virtual Machine to enable developers to build and deploy Java applications that will start quickly, deliver great performance, all while using less memory. Key highlights […]

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 9.2.0.3 Released

July 23, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released Fix Pack 9.2.0.3 for IBM MQ V9.2 LTS: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6474635 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM MQ V9.2.3 Announced

July 20, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM has announced IBM MQ V9.2.3: https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/1/877/ENUSZP21-0231/index.html Highlights: MQ 9.2.3: – Streaming queues to make message data from existing flows available to Apache Kafka streaming applications, artificial intelligence (AI), and analytics applications, with zero impact to the existing applications or their messages and without a need for rearchitecting your message flows – Broadened uniform cluster […]

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Time Warp – AIX and MQ v6

July 12, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Last week, a customer emailed an interesting request. They have 2 AIX hub servers running WebSphere MQ V6.0 and they want to determine what applications are using the 2 MQ hub servers, so that they can upgrade to a newer release of MQ. That made me clean my glasses because MQ v6 went out of […]

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MQ Request/Reply Scenario with Async Getter Thread

July 8, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Ok. Continuing on with the previous blog posting here, the StackOverflow user says that s/he wants the getter component to be run in a separate thread. To me, the request does not really make a lot of sense. If the user wants to do a Get with CorrelId then they should be coding for synchronous […]

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Put 2 Messages with Unique CorrelId and Get 1 Message by CorrelId

July 2, 2021 Roger Lacroix

On StackOverflow, someone asked a question about putting 2 messages on a queue with unique correlation ids and then retrieve a message with a particular correlation id. Here is a fully functioning Java/MQ program that will put 2 messages on a queue with unique correlation ids and then retrieve a message with a particular correlation […]

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