noxDB - Not Only XML - is a software library which makes it easy to parse and generate JSON and XML. Generating JSON or XML directly from an SQL is even easier with noxDB. noxDB has become my favorite tool when working with JSON or XML when I want to process it with a DOM like approach ... which is most of the time.

This will be the last episode of our Jakarta EE Batch adventure. In this post we will see our example application in action and see how to restart a batch job and the mechanics behind it.

The JBatch Example in my last post was ok for a prototype but when you have to write many batch jobs we would rather want to have to code less and have more ready-to-use components. This can be done very easily in only a few steps by putting these reusable components into a `batch.core` project which we can later declare as a depencency in your batch projects.

My last blog post was about batch processing on IBM i with Jakarta EE Batch implementation JBatch from IBM. I didn't get into too much detail in that post as it was only to provide a brief overview of Jakarta EE Batch. In this blog post I want to present and explain one of my JBatch example applications available on Bitbucket.

This whole blog has been very RPG centric so far. But some of you also know that I also do some Java programming (and also some Node.js+TypeScript from time to time). Lately I got involved into some Java projects which also include IBM i as a potential target platform.

This blog entry is about IDN or IDNA - International Domain Names (in Applications) - and Punycode.

I am using noxDB for some time now and I always stumbled upon some API calls where I just couldn't remember either the exact function name, parameters or return value.

Kong (or Kong Gateway) is a very lightweight API gateway. But it doesn't come with a UI for configuration. This blog post shows how to get a nice Web UI for Kong.

In most IBM i shops SQL is the primary way of accessing data or is at least on its way to be it. And this is a good thing. But as ILEastic is a multi threaded framework we need to be aware of the fact that multiple threads may be using SQL transactions simultaneously.

Most people have probably assumed that the next blog post will again be about "ILEastic Tutorial : Tour of Champions". I will definitely continue this series but I had some time to work on the STOMP client again. And this time I have working STOMP service program which implements the STOMP specification 1.2.