Application integration & Middleware

Alfresco – Custom Share action not working after disabling WebDAV servlet

On an Alfresco upgrade project I was working on recently, I faced an interesting issue where post upgrade, one of my custom Share action wasn’t working anymore. This action was used to create folder links for use on an external(…)

Alfresco – ActiveMQ not starting, blocking Alfresco

As already mentioned in a previous blog, ActiveMQ has been used in the scope of Alfresco since quite some time. Initially, as an optional component but then, it became mandatory. Just like for the Database, if ActiveMQ(…)

Documentum – E_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR on D2-REST Product page related to GUAVA libraries after WebLogic PSU

At a customer, the D2-REST (16.5.1) application hosted on WebLogic Server 12c started showing 500 Internal Server Errors, after a customer release including many things. The error was rather simple to replicate since opening the D2-REST Product info page was(…)

Documentum – dmqdocbroker/iapi/idql not working because of dbor.properties.lck

Have you ever faced an issue where dmqdocbroker, iapi, idql and the likes aren’t able to communicate at all with any Docbroker (connection broker)? Here, I’m not talking about potentially wrong hostname, port or connect modes, which might prevent you(…)

Customizing Oracle WebLogic wlst

As stated in Oracle’s documentation, the WebLogic Scripting Tool, or wlst for short, can be extended by adding functions in 2 non mutually exclusive places: any file located in $WL_HOME/common/wlst any file located in $WL_HOME/common/wlst/lib/ Files must have the(…)

HtmlAdaptorServer, A JMX Agent with HTML Presentation for WebLogic

In this article, I presented a little utility based on the SimpleHTTPServer jython module to visualize into an HTML page a WebLogic server’s configuration and run-time mbeans. I also mentioned that there are lots other tools out there for(…)

The new WebLogic remote-console

An interesting new project that started a few months ago is the WebLogic Remote Console. Its main advantage is that it allows to edit a domain’s configuration with no need for a running console application as it connects directly(…)

Oracle Internet Directory or Oracle Access manager 12.2.1.4 fails to install on Red Hat Linux8

Recently I had to install Oracle Internet Directory (OID) and Oracle Access Manager (OAM) both in 12.2.1.4 on a Red Hat 8 for new QA and PRODUCTION environments. The installation of the OID 12.2.1.4 failed on packages prerequisites check. It(…)

A web-based MBean Navigator for Oracle WebLogic wlst

Back in the days of WebLogic v8.x, when BEA still owned it and wlst wasn’t the official scripting tool yet, the unofficial wlshell and wlshell Explorer tools were available along with the official command-line tool weblogic.Admin. wlshell was a Windows(…)

Documentum – SSL Certificate based secure communication setup

Around four years ago, I did a few presentations, here, in Switzerland about “Security & Documentum”. In there, I talked about a lot of different subjects related to both security and Documentum (you guessed it…) like: ciphers, SHA, FIPS &(…)