Adventures of a service oriented architect
How can you automate the build process for your application based on Software AG’s Adabas and Natural? I talk about our journey towards a completely automated build from scratch after each push to Git in the second episode of the Legacy Coder Podcast. How to automate the build process for an Adabas/Natural application Why would … Read more
Unit testing with Software AG’s Natural – is that even possible? Let’s find out in the very first episode of the Legacy Coder Podcast. Unit testing Natural applications Why would I want to unit test my Natural code? You get instant feedback whether your code works. That’s fun! 😀 You get a safety net for … Read more
Who is this guy and what the heck does he know about Software AG’s Adabas and Natural? I’ll show you in the pre-episode zero of the Legacy Coder Podcast. Introduction to the podcast and myself My experience with Adabas and Natural. I’m programming with Natural since 2003. I’m the president of the International Natural User … Read more
Software AG recorded a video with us on how we cope with the generational change that takes place in the Natural developer community. How do you handle the problem of aging Natural developers? I’d love to hear your comments on that! By the way, I’ll be talking about modern Natural development at IUG 2017! See … Read more
Error handling in Software AG’s Natural can be done in a way that resembles Exception handling in object-oriented languages like Java. throw Instead of throwing an Exception, you raise an error simply by assigning a value to the system variable *ERROR-NR. As soon as a statement like the following is executed, the current program flow … Read more
My JBoss EAP 7 server couldn’t cope with a failing database. After a database restart or failure, e.g. due to maintenance, it simply would not connect to the database again automatically. The application simply stopped working as soon as the database was unavailable for a short period of time. JBoss’s server.log was full of (not … Read more
Here’s a short subroutine for reading the physical file path of the current FUSER of a Natural (from Software AG) runtime. I’m not sure if it works on a mainframe, but it definitely runs on a Linux system. The subroutine returns the following information, if it runs successfully: P-FUSER-PATH /home/macke/fuser P-RC 0 Otherwise the return … Read more
One might think that joining (or combining) two file paths together with Groovy would be an easy thing to do. I’m used to “nice” methods from Ruby like File.join (see How to do a safe join pathname in ruby?): File.join(“path”, “to”, “join”) As it turns out, there is no such method in Groovy. However, here … Read more
After a few hours of trial and error and finally getting authentication against Google’s API working in Ruby I think it’s time for a blog post 😉 I had a simple (at least I thought it was simple) requirement: Reading the people in a user’s Google+ circles with Ruby. Because I use OmniAuth in my … Read more
Configuring JBoss EAP 7 to write an access log (e.g. like Apache webserver) is quite easy with the CLI: /subsystem=undertow/server=default-server/host=default-host/setting=access-log:add If you need any additional configuration, take a look at this: Wildfly 10.0.0.Final Model Reference. For example, to change the prefix of the log’s file name: /subsystem=undertow/server=default-server/host=default-host/setting=access-log:write-attribute(name=prefix, value=”my_access”) Alternatively, you could change the configuration in … Read more