I’ve been meaning to contribute to open source for some time. I really didn’t have anything particularly in mind to what I wanted to publish. However, I’ve been dealing with varying degree of integration complexity to some of my application environments at the office. Inevitably, someone would scratch their head for several minutes trying to figure out why something failed only to realize that it was due to an external dependency. Needless to say, a simple tool that would provide a holistic view of the system could have saved them some pain. This could then be expanded to other environments: shared…
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Every once in a while, an email thread is started by an individual wanting to know how to connect to SharePoint web services from java. The first time I came across this challenge was back in 2007 when I was building a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) workflow system for the business group I was supporting. One of the key requirements of this system was to retain an audit trail of all emails and documents associated with a given workflow. To put it bluntly, SharePoint wasn’t my first choice. I was very much aware of other document management systems which would have been a better…