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If I am going to sing like somebody else, I don't need to sing at all…
-Billie Holiday
How true is this particular saying of the famous singer in building a branding strategy? And how truly it has been followed by V G Siddhartha to make him now virtually the coffee king of India? V.G.Siddhartha, chairman of the Bangalore-based Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Co. (ABC) is the man behind India's largest coffee chain, Café Coffee Day (CCD).On October 11,2011 Siddhartha was awarded as the Next Gen Entrepreneur award by Forbes India.
But this was not a cake-walk for Siddhartha. From setting up its 1st cafe outlet in 1996 on Brigade Road in Bangalore, CCD is now bubbling with 1232 stores and counting, with another 6 stores outside India in Vienna and Karachi. No doubt that he made the juice worth the squeeze.
Your brand is more than your logo, name or slogan — it's the entire experience your prospects and customers have with your company, product and service. This is where CCD pulled a master stroke of changing the whole calculus of coffee consumption in a tea drinking country like India.
Belonging to a coffee plantation family Siddhartha was quick to capitalize on the advantage of having an estate of coffee shrubs rolling over 10,000 acres. Taking a leaf out of South East Asia's strategy (beer instead of coffee), Siddhartha started serving free coffee to whoever came to his internet café .This was just the stepping stone, where he used internet just as bait for the people. It was all part of a strategy of convincing customers not that they liked coffee, but liked the fact that they are holding and sipping a coffee.
Cafe Coffee Day is India's favorite coffee shop, for the young and the young at heart. CCD today has definitely become the largest youth aggregator."Although demographically, a typical consumer would be male or female between 15-29 years of age, belonging to middle or upper middle class, we call our consumers young or young at heart. We are about juke boxes, good and affordable coffee and food." Sudipta Sen Gupta, ex-marketing head, CCD. CCD focuses on projecting a feeling of togetherness, friendship, romance or informal office meetings over a cup of coffee and celebration which are critical core values. Accordingly the cafe ambience, the look and feel inside is maintained. Other than the regular stores (SQUARE) CCD has is having the premium formats (LOUNGE) where one can be what s/he is best at being…oneself. Moreover they have coffee day express, coffee day beverages (coffee day wakeup), coffee day fresh n ground and coffee day exports thus catering to every aspect of coffee.
With its vision to be the friendly and stylish social hub for the young and the free spirited to get together and converse over a cup of coffee, and complementing this is the fact that half of India having being born after 1983,the company rightly calls itself "India's largest youth aggregator." And with their simple yet sensitive objective "A great cup of coffee. From bean, to cup. Every time", they have hit the right notes.
Having zeroed in on the youth and the young at heart as the target market, CCD is just the place away from home or office where you can relax all by yourself or with others. An atmosphere where you can discuss the best ideas and solutions in your mind or with those around you. And of course, at the heart of it all, you must have your cup of fresh brew of the mysterious coffee bean that indulges all the five senses and leaves a long lasting magical effect on everyone. "Some of my best ideas have come out of the hours I have spent in a café. A café is the place where I can be all by myself and take in the world of beautiful people around me" said India's most loved young author Chetan Bhagat. Nowadays, with youth having higher disposable income/pocket money, they don't mind spending Rs 150 over a cup of coffee coz it will cost them that much out of the house anyway. But does this prove their brand loyalty? "Why not? I mean, it's definitely a cool place to hang out, but if my parents start visiting it often, I would rather prefer another place." said Debnath Ganguly, a post graduate student living in Delhi.
Over years CCD has undergone total café rebranding, with jumping to an all new 'smart' menu for in-house and take away food, changes in ultra-comfort furniture design and seating, new uniforms, cutlery. These changes are designed to facilitate a more interactive in-café experience for customers and enhanced customer service. Taking special notice on elements such as pricing, food, music, ambience and promotion CCD has created a friendly, clean and sober café environment that offers affordable and excellent range of products, being an essential part of everyone's lifestyle.
A significant change in the rebranding strategy is the transformation of the famous square Café Coffee Day logo to a 'Dialogue Box' – with the words Café Coffee Day written in a distinct, specially created font. The new trendy 'dialogue' logo symbolizes the essence of what a Café Coffee Day café is all really all about – a perfect place to 'relax and dialogue'. And as we all know, a lot does happen over coffee!
But all said and done the path for success was not a bed of roses. In their early stage CCD neither had a mention-worthy presence nor definite brand recognition. It surrendered to Barista, founded in 2000 by Amit Judge. Positioning itself as an up market, premium coffee cafe and targeting executives, Barista slowly but steadily set up some 85 cafés around the country, while Coffee Day had just 35. But Siddhartha had bigger plans. He understood the demand of the Indian youth of experiencing culture of world class nature yet easily accessible and affordable. Thus the "third place" away from home concept evolved for the young and the young at heart. On the other hand, Barista by frequent changing of ownership lacked a focus. They wanted to be "everything for everyone" but ended up being just the opposite. Now, Barista under the Lavazza group, targeting the young adults has opened 230 stores and is considered to be the closest rival of CCD. Recent entrants in the Indian market include Gloria Jeans, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and Illy Café. By number of coffee outlets, CCD's retail chain today figures among the top six globally, behind Starbucks, Dunkin' Donuts, Tim Hortons, Costa Coffee and McCafe, some of which are part of bigger chains..New entrance in the Indian coffee market of the global coffee giant, Seattle-headquartered, Starbucks teaming up with the Indian mega conglomerate, the Tata Group doesn't need an immediate "putting on the thinking cap" for CCD. Instead it can be a blessing in disguise for CCD as more no of people will be become aware and will be experimenting with the coffee consuming habit outside home and office, at a "third place". Sharper locationing of the outlets also gave CCD the competitive edge.
CCD's consumers can be categorized into those who want to have coffee; there are the youngsters who wish to hangout and then there are those who want to grab a quick meal. Targeting the third segment CCD in trying out the Rajma Chawal meal in select stores in Delhi and NCR; the parathas at CCD stores in Punjab and Chandigarh. Making better use of technology both in the front and the back end is its key focus as of now. Making the cafes Wi-Fi enabled, digitizing the in house magazine Café beat, building loyalty programmes and using technology such as Bluetooth to stream music across the café will not only attract the customers attention but will create a whole lot of excitement and positive vibe around it.CCD then could capitalize by building communities and thus increasing their brand equity.
With coffee consumption growing at 6% plus per annum compared to 2% globally, India coffee market is definitely a place you would want to be in. With plans of domestic(2000 outlets by 2014) as well as international(200 outlets in East European region, West Asia and the Asia-Pacific region by 2014) expansion, CCD is definitely showing some aggressive branding strategy which till now has stood them in a good stead.
CCD has definitely connected well with coffee lovers as we are seeing higher growth in cafés. Café Coffee Day has played an essential role in awakening India to the coffee café culture by giving people an enjoyable ambience, from cozy seating to ordering the finest selections of coffee brews, beverages and food. And above all, it has given a place where India could go and spend a while to think and talk about things they like.
4."Marketing Management" by Philip Kotler (13th edition).
[The article has been written by Sayantan Bhowmik. He did his schooling from St. Xaviers, Haldia, West Bengal and graduated from Calcutta Institute of Technology and Management. He is presently pursuing his MBA from Fostiima Business School, Delhi. He is a sports loving person and likes to play computer games, watch movies and quiz shows and solve puzzles in his leisure time. He is a firm believer in "Even sky is not the limit !"]
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Using Spring and Hibernate with WebSphere Application Server
Get the most out of your open source environment using WebSphere Application Server V6 through V7
{Tom Alcott}, Consulting IT Specialist, IBM
Tom Alcott is consulting IT specialist for IBM in the United States. He has been a member of the Worldwide WebSphere Technical Sales Support team since its inception in 1998. In this role, he spends most of his time trying to stay one page ahead of customers in the manual. Before he started working with WebSphere, he was a systems engineer for IBM's Transarc Lab supporting TXSeries. His background includes over 20 years of application design and development on both mainframe-based and distributed systems. He has written and presented extensively on a number of WebSphere run time issues.
{Roland Barcia}, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
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Roland Barcia is a Senior Technical Staff Member and lead Web 2.0 Architect for {IBM Software Services for WebSphere}. He is a co-author of {IBM WebSphere: Deployment and Advanced Configuration} and {Persistence within the Enterprise: A Guide to Persistence Technologies}.
{Jim Knutson}, WebSphere J2EE Architect, IBM
Jim Knutson is WebSphere's J2EE architect. Jim is responsible for IBM's participation in J2EE related specifications and his involvement in both goes back to before there was a J2EE. Jim is also involved in programming model evolution to support SOA and Web services.
{Sara Mitchell}, Software Engineer, IBM
[Sara Mitchell]
Sara Mitchell works at IBM's UK development laboratory at Hursley as a team lead for WebSphere Application Server.
{Ian Robinson}, STSM, WebSphere Transactions Architect, IBM
[Ian Robinson]
Dr. Ian Robinson is an IBM senior technical staff member and the transaction architect for IBM WebSphere Application Server. He has over 12 years experience of designing and implementing distributed transaction systems, having worked on the IBM CICS server and ComponentBroker CORBA server. Ian is co-chair of the {OASIS Web Services Transaction technical committee}, was spec lead for the {J2EE Activity Service} (JSR 95) and co-author of the {WS-Transaction} set of specifications. Ian received a BSc and a PhD in Physics from the University of Exeter, England, in 1986 and 1989 respectively.
{Tim Ward}, Software Engineer, IBM
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Tim Ward is a software engineer at IBM�s Hursley lab. He is actively engaged in agile projects and a developer for WebSphere Application Server. Tim holds a MSci from the University of Cambridge, England, where he studied Theoretical Physics.
Summary: If you're considering using Spring or Hibernate with IBM� WebSphere� Application Server, this article explains how to configure these frameworks for various scenarios with WebSphere Application Server. This article is not an exhaustive review of either framework, but a critical reference to help you successfully implement such scenarios. (Updated for Spring Framework 2.5 and WebSphere Application Server V7.) This content is part of the {IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal}.
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The Spring Framework, commonly referred to as {Spring}, is an open source project that aims to make the J2EE� environment more accessible. Spring provides a framework for simple Java� objects that enables them to make use of the J2EE container via wrapper classes and XML configuration. Spring's objective is to deliver significant benefits to projects by increasing development productivity and runtime performance, while also improving test coverage and application quality.
{Hibernate} is an open source persistence and query framework that provides object-relational mapping of POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects) to relational database tables, as well as data query and retrieval capabilities.
While many organisations are interested in discovering what benefits they can obtain from using these frameworks, IBM wants customers who do use them to know that they can do so with WebSphere Application Server in a robust and reliable way. This article describes how these frameworks can be used with WebSphere Application Server, and explains best practices for a variety of use cases so that you can get started with Spring or Hibernate as quickly as possible.
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Using Spring
Spring is generally described as a lightweight container environment, though it is probably more proper to describe it as a framework for simplifying development. The Spring Framework was developed by Interface21, based on publications by Rod Johnson on the dependency injection design pattern. Spring can be used either in standalone applications or with application servers. Its main concept is the use of dependency injection and aspect-oriented programming to simplify and smooth the transitions from development to testing to production.
One of the most often used scenarios involving Spring is to configure and drive business logic using simple Java bean classes. The {Spring documentation} should provide enough information to build an application using Spring beans; there is nothing WebSphere-specific about this. The following sections describe some of the usage scenarios for using Spring on WebSphere Application Server. Spring applications that are developed following the advice in this article should execute within a WebSphere Application Server or WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment environment with no difficulties.
Except where explicitly stated, the information presented here pertains to Versions 6.0.2.x, 6.1.x, and 7.0.x of WebSphere Application Server on all platforms.
Presentation tier considerations
This section describes considerations relating to the use of Spring in the Web-based presentation tier.
* Web MVC frameworks
Spring's Web MVC framework is an alternative to other frameworks that have been around for some time. Web MVC frameworks delivered, used, and supported directly by WebSphere Application Server include JavaServer Faces (JSF) and Struts. Spring documentation describes how to integrate Spring with these Web frameworks. Use of any of these MVC is supported by WebSphere Application Server, although IBM will only provide product support for the frameworks shipped with WebSphere Application Server.
* Portlet MVC framework
Spring also provides a Portlet MVC framework (which mirrors the Spring Web MVC framework) and runs in both the WebSphere Portal V6.0 and the WebSphere Application Server V6.1 portlet containers. (See {Spring Portlet MVC} for an example set of Spring portlets.) Running portlets in the WebSphere Application Server V6.1 portlet container requires that an additional Web application be created to define the layout and aggregation of the portlets. Information on how to use the portlet aggregator tag library can be found in the WebSphere Application Server Information Center and in the article {Introducing the portlet container}. Using JSF in combination with portlets is a common practice for rendering. For information on how Spring, Hibernate, JSF, and WebSphere Portal can be combined together, see {Configuring Hibernate, Spring, Portlets, and OpenInSessionViewFilter with IBM WebSphere Portal}.
Data access considerations
This section describes considerations relating to the configuration of Spring beans that access data within a transaction.
The Spring framework essentially wraps Spring beans with a container-management layer that, in a J2EE environment, delegates to the underlying J2EE runtime. Following are descriptions of how Spring beans should be configured so that the Spring Framework properly delegates to (and integrates with) the WebSphere Application Server runtime.
* Accessing data sources configured in WebSphere Application Server
WebSphere Application Server manages the resources used within the application server execution environment. Spring applications that want to access resources, such as JDBC data sources, should utilize WebSphere-managed resources. To do this:
1. During development, the WAR module should be configured with a resource reference. For example:
2. For EJB JAR files, the same resource-ref should be declared in each EJB that needs to access the data source.
3. A data source proxy bean would then be declared within the Spring application configuration, which references a WebSphere-managed resource provider:
Accessing the data source through this proxy bean will cause the data source to be looked up using the module's configured references, and hence be properly managed by WebSphere Application Server. Note that the jndiName property value matches the pattern java:comp/env/ concatenated with the res-ref-name declared in the resource-ref.
Alternatively, from Spring 2.5 onwards, this can be done using the approach. Notice how the jndiName property matches the actual value of the res-ref name declared in the resource-ref together with the resource-ref="true" property:
4. The data source proxy bean may then be used by the Spring application as appropriate.
5. When the application is deployed to a WebSphere Application Server, a resource provider and resource data source must be configured in the normal fashion for use by the Spring application resource reference. The resource reference declared within the module's deployment descriptor will be bound to the application server's configured data source during deployment.
* Using JDBC native connections
Spring provides a mechanism for accessing native connections when various JDBC operations require interacting with the native JDBC resource. The Spring JdbcTemplate classes utilize this capability when a NativeJdbcExtractor class has been set on the JdbcTemplate class. Once a NativeJdbcExtractor class has been set, Spring always drills down to the native JDBC connection when used with WebSphere Application Server. This bypasses the following WebSphere quality of service functionality and benefits:
* Connection handle tracking and reassociation
* Connection sharing
* Involvement in transactions
* Connection pool management.
Another problem with this is the WebSphereNativeJdbcExtractor class depends on internal WebSphere adapter classes. These internal classes may differ by WebSphere Application Server version and may change in the future, thereby breaking applications that depend on this functionality.
Use of NativeJdbcExtractor class implementations (for example, WebSphereNativeJdbcExtractor) are not supported on WebSphere Application Server and you should avoid scenarios that require it. The alternative is to use the WebSphere Application Server {WSCallHelper} class to access non-standard vendor extensions for data sources.
* Using transactions with Spring
WebSphere Application Server provides a robust and scalable environment for transaction processing and for managing connections to resource providers. Connections to JDBC, JMS, and Java Connector resource adapters are managed by WebSphere Application Server regardless of whether or not a global transaction is being used; even in the absence of a global transaction there is always a runtime context within which all resource-provider connections are accessed. WebSphere Application Server refers to this runtime context as a {local transaction containment} (LTC) scope; there is always an LTC in the absence of a global transaction, and resource access is always managed by the runtime in the presence of either of a global transaction or an LTC. To ensure the integrity of transaction context management (and hence the proper management of transactional resources) WebSphere Application Server does not expose the javax.transaction.TransactionManager interface to applications or application frameworks deployed into WebSphere Application Server.
There are a number of ways to drive resource updates under transactional control in Spring, including both programmatic and declarative forms. The declarative forms have both Java annotation and XML descriptor forms. If you use Spring 2.5 with WebSphere Application Server V188.8.131.52 or V18.104.22.168 or later, you can take advantage of full support for Spring's declarative transaction model. Spring 2.5 has a new PlatformTransactionManager class for WebSphere Application Server, called WebSphereUowTransactionManager, which takes advantage of WebSphere Application Server's supported UOWManager interface for transaction context management. Managing transaction demarcation through WebSphere Application Server's UOWManager class ensures that an appropriate global transaction or LTC context is always available when accessing a resource provider. However, earlier versions of Spring used internal WebSphere interfaces that compromised the ability of the Web and EJB containers to manage resources and are unsupported for application use. This could leave the container in an unknown state, possibly causing data corruption.
Declarative transaction demarcation in Spring 2.5 or later are supported in WebSphere Application Server using the following declaration for the WebSphere transaction support:
A Spring bean referencing this declaration would then use standard Spring dependency injection to use the transaction support, for example:
Alternatively, from Spring 2.5 onwards, Spring�s AspectJ support can be utilised. In the following example, can be applied to various parts of the application. This indicates that all methods starting with "get" are PROPAGATION_REQUIRED and all methods starting with "set" are PROPAGATION_REQUIRES_NEW. All other methods use the default transaction settings.
The tag applies those settings to any executed operation defined within the class MyService.
Another alternative mechanism for declaring transaction settings is to use the Spring annotation-based transaction support. This requires the use of Java 5+, and therefore cannot be used with WebSphere Application Server V6.0.2.x.
Add the following to the Spring.xml configuration:
Any methods that require transactional attributes should then be marked with the @Transactional annotation:
@Transactional(readOnly = true)
public String getUserName()
{ ...
Be aware that the @Transactional annotation can only be used to annotate public methods.
The WebSphereUowTransactionManager supports each of the Spring transaction attributes:
For earlier versions of Spring that do not provide org.springframework.transaction.jta.WebSphereUowTransactionManager, and for versions of WebSphere Application Server prior to V220.127.116.11 or V184.108.40.206 that do not provide com.ibm.wsspi.uow.UOWManager, transaction support in WebSphere Application Server is available via this Spring configuration:
This configuration supports a restricted set of transaction attributes that does not include PROPAGATION_NOT_SUPPORTED and PROPAGATION_REQUIRES_NEW. The Spring class org.springframework.transaction.jta.WebSphereTransactionManagerFactoryBean, which also claims to provide PROPAGATION_NOT_SUPPORTED and PROPAGATION_REQUIRES_NEW capabilities, uses unsupported internal WebSphere Application Server interfaces and should not be used with WebSphere Application Server.
* Using Spring JMS
Just as with accessing JDBC data sources, Spring applications intended to access JMS destinations must ensure they use WebSphere-managed JMS resource providers. The same pattern of using a Spring JndiObjectFactoryBean as a proxy for a ConnectionFactory will ensure that JMS resources are properly managed.
For JMS message sending or synchronous JMS message receipt, JMSTemplates can be used. This includes the use of Spring�s dynamic destination resolution functionality both via JNDI and true dynamic resolution.
The following example shows the configuration of a resource reference for a ConnectionFactory. This reference is mapped during application deployment to point to a configured, managed ConnectionFactory stored in the application server�s JNDI namespace. The ConnectionFactory is required to perform messaging and should be injected into the Spring JMSTemplate.
There is now a defined JNDI name for your ConnectionFactory within the application that can be looked up and injected into the JMSTemplate:
At run time, the JMSTemplate can locate destinations based on either their JNDI name (as configured in an application resource reference) or through "dynamic resolution," based on the administrative name of the destination configured in WebSphere Application Server; for example, for the JMS myQueue queue, bound to a JNDI reference of jms/myQueue:
JNDI resolution:
jmsTemplate.send("java:comp/env/jms/myQueue", messageCreator);
Dynamic resolution:
jmsTemplate.send("myQueue", messageCreator);
As an alternative to J2EE message-driven beans (MDBs), Spring provides a message-driven POJO model for processing inbound JMS messages asynchronously. Only a DefaultMessageListenerContainer class will manage messages from the JMS queue to the configured POJO that must be a javax.jms.MessageListener implementation.
In a WebSphere Application Server environment, you must also specify a WorkManagerTaskExecutor class, which means the DefaultMessageListenerContainer class will delegate to a server-managed thread pool. The DefaultMessageListenerContainer should also be configured with the server's transaction management via the WebSphereUowTransactionManager, as described {above}.
While this message-driven POJO model can be used, it is recommended that J2EE message-driven beans (MDBs) be used directly in WebSphere Application Server configurations that require workload management and/or high availability. Be aware that no other Spring JMS MessageListenerContainer types are supported, as they can start unmanaged threads and might also use JMS APIs that should not be called by applications in a Java EE environment.
* Using JPA with Spring
The EJB 3.0 specification defines the Java Persistence API (JPA) as the means for providing portable persistent Java entities. WebSphere Application Server V7 and the WebSphere Application Server V6.1 EJB 3 feature pack both provide implementations of EJB 3 and JPA; it is also possible to use the Apache OpenJPA implementation of JPA with WebSphere Application Server V6.1 (see {Resources}). When Spring is used in conjunction with a JPA implementation, you should use JPA directly rather than using Spring's JPA helper classes (in the org.springframework.orm.jpa package).
WebSphere Application Server V6.1 and later supports JPA application-managed entity managers, which might have a transaction type of either JTA or resource-local. JTA entity manager uses the application server's underlying JTA transaction support, for which transaction demarcation can be defined using either standard J2EE techniques or Spring's declarative transaction model, as described {above}.
A data access object (DAO) that uses JPA is packaged with a persistence.xml that defines persistence context for the JPA EntityManager used by the application. For example, a persistence.xml for a JTA entity manager that uses the data source with a JNDI name "java:comp/env/jdbc/springdb" can be set up like this:
By setting the openjpa.TransactionMode and openjpa.ConnectionFactoryMode properties to "managed," the JPA entity manager delegates management of transactions and connections to WebSphere Application Server. The DAO may use Spring's declarative transaction demarcation as described {above}.
Annotation style injection of a JPA EntityManager is also possible. This is identical to standard JPA:
private EntityManager em;
You need this XML code to turn on EntityManager injection in the Spring XML configuration:
Spring will create an EntityManager from any EntityManagerFactory defined in this XML file. If more than one exists, then it will fail. Use one (and only one) of these ways to create an EntityManagerFactory:
* Using Spring's basic configuration
* Using Spring's advanced configuration
Of course, the benefits of annotations and JPA are also available by using the pure EJB 3 support in WebSphere Application Server V7 and the WebSphere Application Server V6.1 EJB 3 Feature Pack. In either case, you can create an EntityManagerFactory using the JPA API, as shown below. This approach is not recommended for a non-EJB 3 environment, because any EntityManagers created might not be properly managed. However, when you do have an EJB 3 environment, you can use this approach to separate your Spring and JPA configurations.
WebSphere Application Server V7 runs on IBM JDK 6, which cannot be used with versions of the Spring framework prior to V2.5.5, due to a Spring problem documented within {this JIRA}.
* Using HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter and forceEagerSessionCreation
You should always use WebSphere Application Server security mechanisms to secure your WebSphere Application Server applications. If you use the Spring Security filter HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter, however, here is a problem scenario you should watch for.
HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter executes after the call to the WebSphere Application Server server-side application code has been made; for example, the filter runs after a call to index.jsp has been made, which returns response data. As a result, the response will already have been committed when the call to create a session is reached in the Spring filter, and so the HTTP headers have already been returned.
Since a Set-Cookie header must be added to the HTTP response, and the response has already been sent, a Java EE compliant container (such as WebSphere Application Server) might throw an IllegalStateException causing the Set-Cookie to fail. It has been observed that this exception is suppressed in at least some versions of Spring Security, which might lead to a NullPointerException later on -- making it very difficult to determine exactly what happened.
To avoid this problem, you can set the forceEagerSessionCreation option on the HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter entry to true in your Spring configuration:
Integration and management considerations
* JMX and MBeans
Spring JMX MBeans are supported on WebSphere Application Server V6.1 and later only when registered with WebSphere Application Server's container manager MBeanServer. If no server property is specified, the MBeanExporter tries to automatically detect a running MBeanServer. When running an application in WebSphere Application Server, the Spring framework will therefore locate the container's MBeanServer.
You should not use MBeanServerFactory to instantiate an MBeanServer and then inject it into the MBeanExporter. Furthermore, the use of Spring's ConnectorServerFactoryMBean or JMXConnectorServer to expose the local MBeanServer to clients by opening inbound JMX ports is not supported with WebSphere Application Server.
Spring JMX MBeans are not supported on WebSphere Application Server prior to Version 6.1.
* Registering Spring MBeans in WebSphere Application Server
WebSphere Application Server MBeans are identified by a javax.management.ObjectName when they are registered that looks like this:
This means that when they are de-registered, they need to be looked up with the same "fully qualified" name, rather than the simple name property of MBean. The best approach is to implement org.springframework.jmx.export.naming.ObjectNamingStrategy, which is an interface that encapsulates the creation of ObjectName instances and is used by the MBeanExporter to obtain ObjectNames when registering beans. An example is available on the {Spring Framework forum}. You can add the ObjectNamingStrategy instance to the bean that you register. This will ensure that the MBean is properly de-registered when the application is uninstalled.
* MBeans ObjectNames and notifications
Due to the use of a fully qualified ObjectName for MBeans in WebSphere Application Server, you are advised to fully define that ObjectName to use notifications. This JIRA enables the Spring bean name to be used instead and should provide a fix, but only if you are on the appropriate version of Spring.
* System z multicall/unicall limitation
As Spring doesn't allow the specification of platform-specific fields in the MBean descriptor, Spring JMX will work on multi-SR servers on WebSphere Application Server V6.1, but you are restricted in your deployment options. WebSphere Application Server will default to the unicall strategy so that only one instance of the MBean (in one, indeterminate SR) will be asked to execute a request. This may be sufficient in some scenarios but it is more likely that an application will require the ability to declare a combination of multicall and unicall methods, and possibly result in aggregation logic.
* Scheduling and thread pooling
Spring provides a number of TaskExecutor classes that can be used for scheduling work. The only Spring TaskExecutor that is supported by WebSphere Application Server for executing work asynchronously is the Spring WorkManagerTaskExecutor class, which properly utilizes thread pools managed by WebSphere Application Server and delegates to a configured WorkManager. Other TaskExecutor implementations might start {unmanaged threads}.
You can setup a WorkManager within the WebSphere Application Server administrative console by navigating to Resources => Asynchronous beans => Work managers . The JNDI name for the resource can then be used in the Spring config file as a workManagerName property to define a WorkManagerTaskExecutor. This example uses WebSphere Application Server�s DefaultWorkManager JNDI name or wm/default:
* Classloaders
Spring and WebSphere Application Server both use several open source projects and, unfortunately, the versions of the projects they have in common won't always match. Spring dependencies should be packaged as part of the application, and the server should be setup as described below to avoid conflicts. Otherwise, the classloaders may not load the appropriate version either for the runtime or for the application. Usually, this will cause exceptions to appear in the log regarding version mismatches of classes, ClassCastExceptions, or java.lang.VerifyErrors.
One example is the use of Jakarta Commons Logging. Configuring Jakarta Commons Logging (JCL) for application use, or utilizing a different version of JCL than is provided by the application server (for example, embedded with the application code) requires specialized configuration on WebSphere Application Server. See {Integrating Jakarta Commons Logging} for strategies on how to configure a deployed application to use an embedded version of commonly used technologies. Keep an eye on the support Web site for updates on how to configure embedded JCL on WebSphere Application Server V6.x products. This is just one example of conflicts. Others might include application use of JDOM or specific versions of JavaMail. Replacement of WebSphere Application Server's JAR files with these or other packages with later or different versions is not supported.
Another classloader problem that may plague Spring users on WebSphere Application Server is the way Spring loads resources. Resources can include things such as message bundles, and with the classloader hierarchy and various policies for locating resources within the hierarchy, it is possible for resources using a common name to be found in an unintended location. The WebSphere Application Server classloader viewer can be used to help resolve this problem. The combination of this and other versions of common libraries may require that the application rename resources to a unique name.
The example explained by James Estes on the {Spring forum} contains an EJB project and a Web project packaged into an EAR file. The solution described is to add the spring.jar file into both the WEB-INF/lib and the top level of the EAR, then set the classloader policy for the WEB project to PARENT LAST so that it finds the version in WEB-INF/lib first. The EJB project uses the version in the EAR.
Design considerations
Some of the infrastructure services provided by the Spring Framework replicate services provided by a standards-based application server runtime. Furthermore, the abstraction of the Spring framework infrastructure from the underlying J2EE application server necessarily weakens the integration with application server runtime qualities of service, such as security, workload management, and high availability. As a result, using the Spring Framework in applications deployed into the WebSphere Application Server must be carefully considered during application design to avoid negating any of the qualities of service provided by WebSphere Application Server. Where no other recommendation is made, directly using the services provided by WebSphere Application Server is preferred in order to develop applications based on open standards and ensure future flexibility in deployment.
* Unmanaged threads
There are some Spring scenarios that can lead to unmanaged thread creation. Unmanaged threads are unknown to WebSphere Application Server and do not have access to Java EE contextual information. In addition, they can use resources without WebSphere Application Server knowing about it, exist without an administrator's ability to control their number and resource usage, and impede on the application server's ability to gracefully shutdown or recover resources from failure. Applications should avoid any scenario that causes unmanaged threads to be started, such as:
* registerShutdownHook
Avoid using the Spring AbstractApplicationContext or one of its subclasses. There is a public method, registerShutdownHook, that creates a thread and registers it with the Java VM to run on shutdown to close the ApplicationContext. Applications can avoid this by utilizing the normal lifecycle notices they receive from the WebSphere container to explicitly call close on the ApplicationContext.
* WeakReferenceMonitor
Spring provides convenience classes for simplified development of EJB components, but be aware that these convenience classes spawn off an unmanaged thread, used by the WeakReferenceMonitor, for cleanup purposes.
* Scheduling
Spring provides (or integrates with) a number of scheduling packages, but the only Spring scheduling package that works with threads managed by WebSphere Application Server is the CommonJ WorkManager. Other packages, such as quartz and the JDK Timer, start unmanaged threads and should be avoided.
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Using Hibernate
Hibernate is an open source persistence framework for POJOs, providing object-relational mapping of POJOs to relational database tables using XML configuration files. The Hibernate framework is a data access abstraction layer that is called by your application for data persistence. Additionally, Hibernate provides for the mapping from Java classes to database tables (and from Java data types to SQL data types), as well as data query and retrieval capabilities. Hibernate generates the requisite SQL calls and also takes care of result set handling and object conversion.
Hibernate, like OpenJPA, implements the Java Persistence APIs (JPA) specification, which is a mandatory part of Java EE 5. (See {Resources} for developerWorks articles on using Hibernate.)
Usage scenarios
The following scenarios describe some of the possible scenarios for how to use Hibernate with WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere stack products. These are only example scenarios and should not be considered recommended scenarios.
* Use a WebSphere Application Server data source
In order for Hibernate to get database connections from WebSphere Application Server, it must use a resource reference, as mandated by the Java EE (formerly known as J2EE) specification. This ensures WebSphere Application Server can provide the correct behavior for connection pooling, transaction semantics, and isolation levels. Hibernate is configured to retrieve a data source from WebSphere Application Server by setting the hibernate.connection.datasource property (defined in the Hibernate configuration file) to refer to a resource reference (for example, java:comp/env/jdbc/myDSRef) defined in the module's deployment descriptor. For example:
Java EE resource references for Web applications are defined at the WAR file level, which means all servlets and Java classes within the container share the resource reference. Inside of an EJB module, resource references are defined on the individual EJB components. This means that, if many EJB components use the same Hibernate configuration, each EJB must define the same reference name on each EJB component. This can lead to complications that will be discussed a bit later.
Once a data source is configured, one of the next steps to ensure that Hibernate works correctly is to properly configure transaction support.
* Transaction strategy configuration
Hibernate requires the configuration of two essential pieces in order to properly run with transactions. The first, hibernate.transaction.factory_class, defines transactional control and the second, hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class, defines the mechanism for registration of transaction synchronization so the persistence manager is notified at transaction end when it needs to synchronize changes with the database. For transactional control, both container-managed and bean-managed configurations are supported. The following properties must be set in Hibernate.cfg.xml when using Hibernate with WebSphere Application Server:
* for container-managed transactions:
* for bean-managed transactions:
The jta.UserTransaction property configures the factory class to obtain an instance of a UserTransaction object instance from the WebSphere container.
The hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class property is supported on the WebSphere platform by WebSphere Application Server V6.x and later, and on WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation V5.1 and later. This property configures Hibernate to use the ExtendedJTATransaction interface, which was introduced in WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation V5.1 and WebSphere Application Server V6.0. The WebSphere ExtendedJTATransaction interface establishes a pattern that is formalized in Java EE 5 via the JTA 1.1 specification.
* Unsupported transaction configurations
The Hibernate documentation describes transaction strategy configurations for running on WebSphere Application Server Versions 4 and 5 products; however, these configurations use internal WebSphere interfaces and are not supported on those earlier versions. The only supported transaction configuration of Hibernate is described {above}, which means, as stated earlier, Hibernate usage is only supported on WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation V5.1 and on WebSphere Application Server Version 6.x and later.
* Hibernate's usage patterns within a WebSphere Application Server environment
Hibernate's session-per-request and long conversation patterns are both available when using Hibernate with WebSphere Application Server. Customers must choose which is appropriate for their application, though it is our opinion that session-per-request offers better scalability.
* Multiple isolation levels
Sharable connections provide a performance improvement in WebSphere Application Server by enabling multiple resource users to share existing connections. However, if sharable connections and multiple isolation levels are both necessary, then define a separate resource-ref and Hibernate session-factory for each connection configuration. It is not possible to change the isolation level of a shared connection. Therefore, it is also not possible to use the hibernate.connection.isolation property to set the isolation level on a sharable connection. See {Sharing connections in WebSphere Application Server V5} for more information on policies and constraints on connection sharing. (Although this article generally pertains to all shared connection use on WebSphere Application Server V5, the connection sharing advice still follows for Hibernate running on V6.x.)
* Web applications
Hibernate long conversation sessions can be used and stored in HttpSession objects; however, a Hibernate session holds active instances and, therefore, storing it in an HttpSession may not be a scalable pattern since sessions may need to be serialized or replicated to additional cluster members. It is better to use HttpSession to store disconnected objects (as long as they are small, meaning 10KB to 50KB) and re-associate them with a new Hibernate session when an update is needed. This is because HttpSession is best used for bookmarking and not caching. A discussion on how to minimize memory use in HttpSession is contained in {Improving HttpSession Performance with Smart Serialization}. Instead of using HttpSession as a cache, consider using a WebSphere data caching technology like ObjectGrid or DistributedObjectCache, as described in the next section.
For best practices on high performing and scalable applications, the book {Performance Analysis for Java Websites} is strongly recommended.
At the time of publication, the behavior of Hibernate's cluster aware caches in conjunction with WebSphere Application Server has not been determined; therefore, it is not yet determined whether or not their use is supported and we will not discuss them further. As a result, customers requiring a distributed cache should consider creating a class that implements org.hibernate.cache.CacheProvider using the property hibernate.cache.provider_class, which employs one of the two distributed cache implementations in WebSphere.
* Integrating a second-level cache
A Hibernate session represents a scoping for a unit of work. The Session interface manages persistence during the lifecycle of a Hibernate session. Generally, it does this by maintaining awareness or state of the mapped entity class instances it is responsible for by keeping a first-level cache of instances, valid for a single thread. The cache goes away when the unit of work (session) is completed. A second-level cache also can be configured to be shared among all sessions of the SessionFactory, including across a cluster. Be aware that caching in Hibernate raises issues that will need to be addressed. First, no effort is made to ensure the cache is consistent, either with external changes to the database or across a cluster (unless using a cluster aware cache). Second, other layers (such as the database) may already cache, minimizing the value of a Hibernate cache. These issues must be carefully considered in the application design, but they are beyond the scope of this article.
Hibernate comes with several pre-configured caches. You can find information on them in the {Hibernate Cache} documentation pages. For read-only data, one of the in-memory caches might be enough. However, when the application is clustered and a cluster aware cache is needed, the local read-only caches are not enough. If a distributed cache is desired, we recommend using one of the WebSphere-provided distributed cache implementations. These can be used as a second level cache with Hibernate:
* The DistributedMap/DistributedObjectCache interfaces provide distributed cache support the WebSphere v6.x product family. See {Using the DistributedMap and DistributedObjectCache interfaces for the dynamic cache} for more information.
* ObjectGrid, available as part of the WebSphere Extended Deployment product, provides extensible object caching support. See {ObjectGrid} for more information.
* Using Hibernate in WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus and WebSphere Process Server
WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) rely on the Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Service Data Objects (SDO) as an assembly and programming model for SOA. (See {Resources} to learn more about SCA and SDO.) SCA components are not Java EE components, so they do not have resource references, but rely instead on services and adapters to connect to systems. Resource references cannot be used when building Java SCA components; therefore, Hibernate cannot be used directly by an SCA component.
In this case, Hibernate persistence should be hidden behind some kind of facade. There are two alternatives:
* A local EJB session facade is created to wrap Hibernate persistence. The session facade provides adapter logic to map Hibernate entity POJOs to Service Data Objects and back. An integration developer can then use an EJB import to invoke the session facade, and invoke it in a tightly coupled fashion with corresponding Qualities of Service (QoS).
* An EJB Web service session facade is created to wrap Hibernate persistence. An integration developer can then use a Web service import to invoke the Web service for persistence. This gets around having to build POJO to SDO converters, since at the current time SCA only uses SDO for data types. Figure 1 illustrates a business process using both patterns, though the details of the process are beyond the scope of this article.
Figure 1. Sample business process
[Figure 1. Sample business process]
* Hibernate JPA API on WebSphere Application Server V6.1
Hibernate's JPA support provides for JPA standard persistence and is a good alternative to the proprietary Hibernate APIs. Hibernate's JPA implementation requires a Java SE 5 based runtime, and therefore only runs on WebSphere Application Server V6.1 or later. At the time of publication, Hibernate's JPA support does not run on WebSphere System z or iSeries platforms. The Hibernate documentation describes how to package and deploy applications using Hibernate's JPA implementation.
* Non-interoperable / Non-portable function
Section 126.96.36.199 in the JPA specification describes a scenario that is likely to cause interoperability and potential portability problems. This has to do with the combination of the use of lazy loading (that is, @Basic(fetch=LAZY)) and detached objects. When merging a detached object back into a session, JPA will examine the object and update the data store with any changed values. However, data objects are simple POJOs. If part of the POJO state wasn't loaded when it was detached, it can appear to be changed when it is merged back in. To get this to work correctly, vendors must implement serialization techniques specific to their runtime. This is not interoperable and the semantics may not be portable either.
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Product and customer technical support
An area of reasonable concern for users is support of projects using open source and the impact of that usage upon a vendor's support for its licensed products. IBM recognizes that some customers may desire to use non-IBM frameworks in conjunction with IBM WebSphere Application Server and is providing information to customers that may promote the creation of the most reliable operating environment for IBM WebSphere Application Server. IBM considers open source code and application frameworks installed by customers, either bundled as part of the application or as shared libraries, to be part of application code. By carefully utilizing this information when using open source projects, customers may use IBM products with a higher degree of confidence that they may have continued access to IBM product and technical support. If a problem is encountered when using these frameworks with WebSphere products, IBM will make reasonable efforts to ensure the problem does not lie with the WebSphere product.
It is expected that customers may safely use frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate on IBM products by observing the suggestions of this article and understanding a few key points:
* Customers must ensure that they only use those frameworks in ways that are allowed by WebSphere Application Server. In particular, this means that frameworks should not be used when they use internal product interfaces -- unfortunately many open source frameworks do this when not configured carefully. Customers should avoid scenarios clearly documented as things to avoid on WebSphere.
* For open source frameworks, customers should ensure they understand and have access to matching source code and binaries for the framework they are using with WebSphere Application Server.
* Customers are encouraged to obtain corrective service for the frameworks from the open source community or from partners working with the open source community.
For more details on IBM support and policy please refer to the {IBM Support Handbook} and {WebSphere Application Server Support Statement}.
Although following the suggested practices of this article will help you enhance your experience when using WebSphere Application Servers in an open source environment, it is not an all inclusive list of ways in which an open source component may impact WebSphere Application Server operation or the operation of other components. Users of open source code are urged to review the specifications of all components to avoid licensing, support, and technical issues.
Throughout this article, the terms "support" or "supported" indicates that the usage being described uses only IBM documented functionality. The authors have done their best to provide advice on how to configure and use these frameworks to ensure that their usage is consistent with documented product behavior, but this article is neither an endorsement nor a statement of support for Spring or Hibernate.
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The Spring Framework has enjoyed a rapid growth in popularity. Developers like the easy interfaces and XML-based configuration that accelerate J2EE development time and ease unit testing. The framework itself is also growing very rapidly, with many subprojects now listed on the website. As with all software, it is important to identify what benefit is being offered by its inclusion in your application, and whether there are alternative, preferable ways to achieve the same end result. Certainly, there are features in Spring that replicate function already embedded within WebSphere Application Server, and so it is not desireable for applications that will be deployed into the server to use this additional layer of framework code. But with judicious use, you can leverage many of Spring's ease-of-use development features together with WebSphere Application Server's robust, integrated enterprise support features to quickly develop and deploy enterprise applications into IBM's industry-leading J2EE application server.
Hibernate is one of several persistence frameworks that can be successfully used with WebSphere Application Server to provide the object-relational mapping to entity data stored in relational databases, provided that sufficient care is taken to avoid problematic scenarios. In particular, you must ensure that your use of Hibernate does not involve the use of internal WebSphere Application Server interfaces. By following the recommendations presented here, you can avoid some common problems and use Hibernate as the persistence framework for applications deployed into WebSphere Application Server.


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The weapons load out for this beast is slightly different to what many other people play around with. Having the melta lance is a weapon that I really wanted to choose due to its high strength. Goodness knows how it will perform in 8th edition, but I liked it enough for 7th. I have coupled this with the siege close combat arm. The purpose of this leviathan is therefore to hunt down and destroy some heavy tanks (even super heavies, or perhaps knights) and hope to at least remove a few hull points (or wounds in 8th) before succumbing itself. Paired up with a drop pod, this guy stands a good chance statistically against imperial knights and has the armour to hang around.
The pose has the dreadnought looking down the barrel of his weapon, whilst the fist is ready to come in to action with a low swing. The base has been gritted and moulded with some additions to it … almost as if the leviathan has recently dealt with a crashed aircraft, or perhaps its unfortunate occupants.
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Making the Most of Change
Seize the Opportunities. That was the theme of the 2013 United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) Leadership Conference. UTLA President Warren Fletcher sees the "improved economic picture" as one avenue for preventing the "current educational reality"—large class sizes, closed libraries, non-existent art and music programs, a lack of nurses, counselors and psychologists—to become the "new normal." In addition, the breadth of hands-on experience that many members of the School Board possess will enable them to bring classroom perspectives to the Board's decisions.
Combine the fiscal outlook and the experiential foundation, and the following goals seem attainable to UTLA:
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- Full staffing
- Safe schools
- Authentic assessments
- Academic freedom
Attorneys from Gordon, Edelstein, Krepack, Grant, Felton & Goldstein, LLP (GEK) wove this same thread of seizing opportunities into their conference workshop entitled "Workers' Compensation Reform 2013—Here We Go Again." Making lemonade out of what many consider a lemon—Senate Bill (SB) 863—was the main focus of the discussion.
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Based upon recent revelations in the press, as a former state insurance commissioner, former member and long-time officer/president of the nat'l ass'n of insurance commissioners, and as Mr. Steve Cotroneo's attorney, I respectfully request that your Farmers' termination file(s) be turned over to AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATOR acting under the auspices of the AR DOI Fraud Investigation Division for a complete and thorough investigation and final resolution of this most unusual matter.
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Meeting Aug 4 2016
Checkout the aircraft for every flight in the Paperless 141 system - very important
Maneuvers (feedback from DPEs & Harry) – landing too long – taxi too fast – pattern too wide – teach all per airplane flying handbook – Problem maneuvers for WIFA applicants are lazy 8s – chandelles – power off 180 accuracy landing
Shirts – By end of Aug all must wear proper WIFA shirt or you will be sent home
Arrow – emergency gear extension procedure – just show student once – too hard on plane
Seminole – just feather engine once during your training (once per applicant). A student only needs to see this once before the checkride.
TSA inspection next week – everyone see me – I have been trying for a year for this and some of you still have not contacted me – TSA inspection very soon – you will be fired if Harry does not have all of your info
Please keep coffee area clean and pot filled. Please keep classroom and aircraft clean.
We will bill you if you bring a plane back late – If you bring a plane back late the CFI waiting for you can bill you for being late. No warnings. This starts as of August 4 2016.
Maintenance log books - $30 for us to put them back – I have already charged a few for this service. If you remove the log books from the maintenance hangar for a checkride you need to put them back. Do not leave them at the front desk.
When I send you new students please contact them asap and if you have questions please ask the student yourself. As of this meeting if I do not have all of your paperwork in my file you will not get new students. So please check with me to be sure your file is up to date.
Photo flights – when you get these you contact them and ask the questions. Do not ask the front desk or me to call them and ask your questions. The front desk will not help in the flight planning.
Squawks for aircraft – you must enter these, do not have the front desk do this.
Everyone should be using a syllabus for all training. This can be the PTS. Harry has some training syllabus online for use by WIFA.
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Harry should be informed about all checkrides and the results.
You must use student folders for all students, private to ATP. Harry has them in his office.
Please secure aircraft properly. Put pitot tube covers on and gust locks in place. Tie down the aircraft properly. Close fuel caps properly.


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A bipartisan bill that would open the door to unfettered travel to Cuba was introduced in Congress last week, in the hopes that recent political changes in Washington will spill over to U.S. policy toward the island.
The Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act, introduced Feb. 4 and referred to the Foreign Relations Committee, prohibits the U.S. president from regulating or prohibiting travel to or from Cuba by U.S. residents, except in times of war between the two countries or of imminent danger to public health or the safety of U.S. travelers.
It was introduced by a group of representatives led by William Delahunt, D-Mass.
The bill or amendments like it have become a staple in Washington, where the measures flopped in the face of veto threats. Last year, a similar bill had more than 100 sponsors. But with more Democrats in Congress and a new president – one who has vowed to lift some of former President George W. Bush's restrictions on Cuban family travel – the climate could be different.
"It's too early to tell how this will do because Congress is dealing with the economic package, but I think the conditions are good for it," said Phil Peters, a Cuba expert at the Lexington Institute think tank who supports changes to Cuba policy. "The veto threat is gone and Obama has signaled that he is interested in revamping policy. I am not making any predictions, but is it a bill that gets introduced every year and has no chance? No."
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The Holy Grail of portfolio performance benchmarking is the time-weighted rate of return (TWRR). However, it requires daily portfolio valuations whenever an external cash flow (i.e. a contribution or withdrawal) occurs. Periods in which external cash flows occur are divided into sub-periods, each with its own total return calculation. These sub-period returns are then geometrically linked together to obtain the time-weighted rate of return over the measurement period ("geometric linking" is just a fancy way of saying "add 1 to each sub-period return, multiply the sub-period returns together, and then subtract 1 from the result"). The daily valuation requirement makes it very difficult for the average investor to calculate their time-weighted rate of return without the help of computational software.
In our initial example (please refer to my blog post on How to Calculate Your Portfolio's Rate of Return), Investor 1 initially invested $250,000 on December 31, 2013. On September 15, 2014, their portfolio was worth $290,621. They then added $25,000 to the portfolio, bringing the portfolio value up to $315,621. By the end of 2014, the portfolio had decreased to $298,082.
Investor 1 would start by calculating their first sub-period return from December 31, 2013 to September 15, 2014 (using portfolio values before the cash flow occurred). They would then calculate a second sub-period return from September 15, 2014 (using portfolio values after the cash flow occurred) to December 31, 2014. After this was done, they would geometrically link the sub-period returns to obtain their time-weighted rate of return for the year.
Investor 2 initially invested $250,000 on December 31, 2013 in the exact same portfolio as Investor 1. On September 15, 2014, their portfolio was worth $290,621. They then withdrew $25,000 from the portfolio, bringing the portfolio value down to $265,621. By the end of 2014, the portfolio had decreased to $250,860.
Using the same process, Investor 2 ends up with the exact same time-weighted rate of return for the year.
Regardless of the amounts both investors contributed or withdrew from the portfolio, they ended up with the exact same return. This is precisely the result that should be expected. The time-weighted rate of return is not affected by contributions and withdrawals into and out of the portfolio, making it the ideal choice for benchmarking portfolio managers or strategies. If we compare their return to the returns of the MSCI Canada IMI Index over the same period (which their portfolio manager was attempting to track), we also get the same result of 9.79%.
Source: MSCI
Before moving onto the next section, please take note of the relative difference in the sub-period returns; the first sub-period return was 16.25% before the cash flows occurred, and a relatively worse return of -5.56% after the cash flows occurred. This difference in sub-period returns during the year is going to drive the return differences between the time-weighted rate of return and the money-weighted rate of return (MWRR).


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A new poll shows that Republican voters are more aligned with Donald J. Trump than they are the GOP and its leadership in Congress.
The poll conducted by Rasmussen finds that 63 percent of voters who identify as Republicans say that Donald Trump's views align most closely with their own. Meanwhile, only 27 percent of Republicans say that the views of the average member of the GOP caucus in Congress comes closest to their views.
The finding is vastly different when Democrat voters are surveyed on the question. Fully 72 percent of Democrat voters said they agree with the views of the average Democrat in Washington. Only 16 percent of Democrats said that Trump comes closer to their views than members of their own party in D.C.
Overall, though, 53 percent of those surveyed said they identify more closely with Republicans. Thirty-seven percent said they align with Trump on major issues, while only 16 percent said they feel the average member of the Republican caucus has views with which they identify closely. Overall, 37 percent said that the average views of Congressional Democrats align with theirs.
Of the group polled who didn't claim to be a member of either party, 34 percent said Trump's views were closest to theirs. Of this group, 29 percent said they aligned with Democrats and only 16 percent said they best identify with the ideas of Republicans in D.C.
The results still show that the Republican Party is struggling in general to appeal to voters, even among their own constituents. And with much more favorable ratings for a President Trump than for Congressional Republicans, it should serve as a warning that bucking Trump might hurt them more than help their cause.
The experience of House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WS) may be instructive. A separate Rasmussen poll found that Ryan's favorability soared after he reversed his stance against Trump. During the primary season when Ryan was vocally anti-Trump, his favorability rating sunk to 53 percent among GOP voters. But once he took up the Trump banner and accepted Trump as the party nominee, his ratings surged to 73 percent.
The survey was conducted by Rasmussen Reports and taken of 1,000 likely voters by phone and Internet on January 3-4, 2017. The margin of error is calculated as plus or minus three points.
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Earlier this month, Dolce & Gabbana ran an ad that depicts a spectacularly beautiful women being violated by a group of men. This week, Armani Junior used an ad with two young girls, no more than 6 or 7 years old, wearing make-up and photographed, according to the Spain's Children's Rights Ombudsman, Arturo Canalda, as if they were promoting "sexual tourism". The D&G campaign ran in Spain and Italy early this month before it was pulled; the Armani campaign continues with the photo featured prominently on its website.
Both companies have gotten their share of free press. When women's groups, children's group and government officials protested in Spain, the newspapers and television news shows did their civic duty by covering the news — and made sure to show the ads so that everyone could decide on his or her own the extent to which the companies were appealing to prurient interests. No doubt both companies were delighted to see their ads in print and on the news for free. I will NOT print the photos here.
In this world of stakeholder management and CSR it must seem shocking that I describe the firms (i.e., the owners and top management) as delighted. Forget about shock or disgust. Fashion industry executives know that offending some stakeholders is good for sales. As long as the government does not shut you down or your own customer segments get turned off, it's money in the bank.
The responses by the two companies have been standard procedure. Dolce & Gabbana first defended their ad, called the Spanish government "behind the times". Not until pressure came in Italy from members of parliament did the company cave in. Designer-owner Stefano Gabbana said that he was sorry, but defended once again the creative idea behind the ad campaign. He claimed had been inspired to produce an ad campaign that would "recall an erotic dream, a sexual game."
In his own "Rape of the Sabine Women" fantasy way, Stefano Gabbana apologized, insisting that D&G had never intended to offend anyone. This is not true. The company's segmentation strategy is based on offending some to capture a larger part of the "rebellious with money". By taking stabs at the sensibilities of those who are "behind the times", they send a strong message to their target segment: "you are different". Never mind that their target all wear the same clothes, drive the same cars, listen to the same music, experience the same ennui. These shared values define a coherent cohort.
It is a large, and growing, cohort. Big enough for D&G, Armani and quite a few others in the luxury good business. The core of the segment is best described as: psuedo-rebellious work-a-holics who satisfy their need to break norms by submitting themselves to fashion.
The foregoing description is completely unfair. It is obvious to the point of being hackneyed, and it is offensive to those who buy D&G and Armani, but it perhaps will help those who read this blog and buy from these companies to get the point. These companies do not respect you! The description of the cohort is D&G's and Armani's description of its customers, not mine.
The two companies and the two campaigns are not equally bad. The D&G ad is so obviously lame they should have been embarrassed to have thought of it. The actors in the photo are, at least, adults, though they should have known better.
The Armani ad is more complex and far more troubling. It is not immediately obvious that an "innocent" photo of two small children dress in expensive summer clothing is an invitation to sexual tourism. In fact, Armani continues, as I said earlier, to keep it on its website, and I have found no official response yet from the company. They obviously see nothing wrong.
This ought get us to wondering why Armani Junior does not get it. So here's why. Armani Junior's advertising fits in perfectly with the drive to get children to identify with brands earlier and earlier (Armani launched Armani Baby in 2006), and, more importantly, to get children to behave as adults earlier and earlier. You need not take my word on this: you can read any of the dozens of books lamenting children's advertising, starting with Juliet Schor's "Born to Buy".
But not everyone selling to kids are bad guys. I am even willing to accept that most of them want to do the right thing and support CSR programs.
One of my favorite examples is Neopets, owned by MTV Networks, who has pioneered in "immersive advertising" (they have copyrighted the term); branded products are placed in a virtual game space and kids play educational and fun games to get points so that they buy fast food, sugar-coated cereals and other great stuff for their virtual pets. There are some 40 million users world-wide. In June 2005, MTV paid $160 million for the site to try to get kids plugged into their products as early as possible.
It works. And who am I to criticize? As much as I dislike "immersive advertising", the advertisers love it. Moreover, Neopets is as socially responsible as you can get. Their website includes first-rate educational materials and does an outstanding job of helping parents monitor their kids use of internet and on-line games.
So why am I fuming? My friends and colleagues tell me that I get way too worked up over this stuff. But like the sentimentalist that I am, I keep asking what can we do to protect children. Which brings me back to the Armani Junior ad. It is easy to imagine a fair number of Moms and Dads leafing through the Armani Junior catalog to the precise photo that children's groups have denounced. I can picture Mom and Dad looking at each other and crooning, "Aren't those girls just so cute?", and then calling out to their own lovely daughter, "Sweetheart, come on over here, we have this cute little outfit to show you."
Perhaps it has not occured to these Moms and Dads that their children might be victims of their parents' crass materialism. Perhaps it is not so important; after all these children have access to products and markets and education. For much of the rest of the worlds' children, however, their options are much simpler: children in poverty, children as workers, children as prostitutes, children as soldiers. For the girls we can add: girls without schooling, girls as domestic slaves, girls suffering genital mutilation.
It is hard to imagine D&G or Armani Junior understanding the rhetorical path that I have used to associate their uncreative ad campaigns with rape and child abuse, but there is little I can do about that. What I would like to do is to invite Stefano Gabbana to my house to explain the ad to my 13 year old daughter who looked at it as if it were something she had seen a million times before, though when she saw the pained expression on my face she knew something was wrong, and I said, "This is really bad," and she said, "I Know," and I thought, it could get worse.
… And then I saw the Armani Junior ad.


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Autumn 2017: New homework system
After lots of discussion with parents over the last academic year, a new homework system comes in to place with effect from Autumn 2017.
Please find below all the documents relating to the new homework system.
Multiplication Tables
By the end of Year 4, pupils should know their multiplication and division facts up to 12 x 12.
By the end of Year 3, pupils should know their multiplication and division facts for the 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 8x and 10x tables.
There are many different ways to learn multiplication tables - games and activities that are fun are often the most effective.
The Kids' Zone section of our school website (under the Children tab) has several links to online resources that can be used to practise times tables (and other core skills).
These spelling lists are for Years 3 and 4, and Years 5 and 6 and are derived from the National Curriculum. We have regular spelling lessons in school and children are tested weekly on the spellings that are send home. We will also be checking that they spell the words correctly in their own writing.
These are the core skills for each year group that pupils need to master by the end of each year. There are videos on the school website to support children and parents with these core skills. We prefer children to be taught the skills in school first and for the videos to be used as a
revision/consolidation tool, rather than to enable new learning.
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