Category: Java

In April Dave Whitla created a project for a Maven Glassfish Plugin. Kohsuke Kowaguchi joined the project and copied his code in and released it. His focus was V3 Embedded. It supported one goal: run. There was disagreement as to the features and the code to use. Dave’s plugin was to support a wide range… Continue reading mvn glassfish:run

I gave a talk today at the Glassfish V3 Prelude Launch Event. Ehcache Server uses Glassfish for its self contained cache server. You can watch the video of the session here.

Rick Bryant sent me some sample code he wrote which shows how to use the RESTful Cache Server from Java. Thanks Rick. To use the sample just fire up the cache server: startup.sh and then run the following Java code. package samples; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.OutputStream; import java.net.HttpURLConnection; import java.net.URL; /** * A simple example… Continue reading Example RESTful Java client for Ehcache

The RESTful Ehcache Server is designed to achieve massive scaling using data partitioning – all from a RESTful interface. The largest ehcache single instances run at around 20GB in memory. The largest disk stores run at 100Gb each. Add nodes together, with cache data partitioned across them, to get larger sizes. 50 nodes at 20GB… Continue reading A terabyte cache with the RESTful Ehcache Server

IntelliJ 8 milestone 1, a.k.a. Diana rocks! For the non-IntelliJ users of this world, 8m1 was released in the last week. IntelliJ 7 annoyed me. It was slow and bloated. Some stuff was added in without enough thought. The facets feature, which I was unable to turn off irritated me so much I logged a… Continue reading IntelliJ 8 milestone 1 rocks!

I have just released ehcache-server-0.3, which includes a fully functional RESTful, resource-oriented implementation. The standalone-server has also been updated to 0.3. Cache API CacheManager Resource Operations OPTIONS / Lists the methods supported by the CacheManager resource GET / Lists the Caches in the CacheManager. Cache Resource Operations OPTIONS /{cache}/ Lists the methods supported by the… Continue reading RESTful, resource-oriented caching now available in ehcache-server

Spnego is an SPNEGO and Kerberos plugin for Glassfish. SPNEGO stands for Simple and Protected GSSAPI Negotiation Mechanism. SPNEGO is a standard GSSAPI pseudo-mechanism for peers to determine which GSSAPI mechanisms are shared, select one and then establish a security context with it. Kerberos is a computer network authentication protocol, which allows individuals communicating over… Continue reading Spnego 1.1 (Kerberos between browsers and Java App servers) released

I am pleased to announce that Dylan Stamat has just released Ehcache for JRuby.JRuby on Rails. Quick Start Following is a quickstart reproduced from his blog. HIs company is migrating from Ruby to JRuby and wanted to try in-process caching. == INSTALL: jruby -S gem install ehcache == BASIC USAGE: manager = CacheManager.new cache =… Continue reading Ehcache for JRuby/JRuby on Rails

For those of you who do not know, the ehcache project has released a SOAP based server. It comes as a WAR which can be deployed to any web container. It also comes as a standalone server which uses Glassfish V3 embedded and can be started up with a simple script. Why am I doing… Continue reading The new ehcache server

Hi I am presenting a session on JMS and OpenMQ at Community One 2008 as follows: Session ID: S297892 Session Title: OpenMQ Session Abstract: This session discusses why you should consider Java? Message Service (JMS) and OpenMQ for scalable and reliable architectures. The presentation includes a use case from the No. 2 Australian e-business site.… Continue reading Open Message Queue Session at Community One