16Aug 2018 by Vlad Turian 3 Comments
Coding Guidelines in webMethods IS – Part 5

Coding Guidelines in webMethods IS – Part 5

Integration Server
Hello, my dear readers and welcome back. Today we release number 5 of the series and let me tell you something: I like the number 5. Why?   Maybe because I was born on a 5. Or maybe because in some school grading systems 5 is the maximum grade. Also in the ones where 10 is the maximum grade, 5 means you passed. Or maybe it is just because I used to listen to Lou Bega and his Mambo No. 5 in my teenage years.   Whatever the reason might be, let's make this post a great one.   Last time we talked about performance improvements with special emphasis on caching, audit logging and pipeline management.   Today we will finish the performance topics because, well, nobody likes stuff half-done.…
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21May 2018 by Vlad Turian No Comments
Coding Guidelines in webMethods IS – Part 3

Coding Guidelines in webMethods IS – Part 3

Integration Server
Hello everybody and welcome to the third installment of the Coding Guidelines franchise. Until now we have been moving slowly, but steadily, through the plot and we will soon be in the grand finale. As promised in the last post we will be zooming today inside the Flow services to see the correct usage of the Flow building blocks.   Branch step guidelines   Branch on variable or expression   The BRANCH step is used to conditionally execute a child step based on the value of one or more variables in the pipeline. There are 2 ways the BRANCH step is used: by specifying a Switch variable and branching on that variable (in this case, Evaluate Labels = false) by not specifying a Switch variable, but providing the children of the…
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