I'm working on an orchestration that's retrieving some data from a Java servlet. The servlet takes a parameter string via HTTP post and returns POX (plain old XML, no SOAP here). I was having trouble getting a valid response from the servlet when I was sending some test messages and wanted to see what my messages were looking like as they went across the wire. Normally I was using WCF, I'd setup message logging, but since that's obviously not an option with the HTTP adapter, my thoughts turned to...

Yesterday I started working on some new functionality that I had planned to implement using the Business Rules Engine. As I got further into it, I realized that some of my rules were going to need to reference some data that resides in an Oracle database. I knew the Business Rules Composer supports using DataConnections and TypedDataTables, but I’d never used this functionality myself, so I wasn’t so sure how it would work with Oracle. As it turns out, it’s very do-able, there’s just little hoop...

The project I'm currently working on is going to make heavy use of IBM WebShere MQ to send messages from BizTalk to the client's iSeries box. I'd never previously worked with WebSphere MQ, so I didn't really have any idea what it would take to get this to work. I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't too difficult to configure a send port and pass messages through it to a queue. Or so I thought... A couple of weeks ago, the client gave me the name of a host, queue manager and queue that I'd been...