BPEL ReadOnly Console

It was my first blog which I wrote almost three years ago. http://chintanblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/i-saw-numerous-people-asking-about-bpel_290.html Since then, pretty much all my clients and a lot of other companies used this approach. I also saw many other blogs copied this idea or put enhancement to it. Anyways, one of my client pointed out this metalink article: 852840.1. Metalink had reference to my blog!! Wow, it certainly makes me feel good when multi billion dollar organization put reference to my tiny little site.

On a smaller scale, but it still reminds what Margaret said: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has"

TCP Tunnel - Java Port Forwarding - TCP kill

You know, sometime you just get amazed when you find an absolutely simple solution for a overly complicated problem. I was working with one client remotely and banging my head against the wall to get the access to their valuable servers. After a so much frustration I could get access to one or two servers via ssh, and that's pretty much it. I could ping to everywhere from that UNIX box but can not connect anything from my local laptop.

To make long story short, I tried using SSH tunnel, hacked routing tables of UNIX/windows but nothing came as handy as a simple Socket program which basically listens on a port and make socket connection to remote client. It is very much like TcpMon or Obtunnel but it is just bare bone version of it. Pretty much 99% of my laptop traffic was going through this tiny unix box and never had to beg for access.

java -jar springportforward.jar com.springsoa.socket.Forward localport remotehost remoteport &

Now as this become the absolutely life savor, I thought I can I can leverage something more out of it. I think we potentially can use this for tcpkill workaround. Basically try to forward all traffic through portforward, and kill the portforward to achieve same effect as tcpkill.