Category: Java

I am going to the Glassfish Unconference which is being held at the Moscone Center San Francisco 4 May 2008. I am interested in or might lead discussions on: SPNEGO – Kerberos and Glassfish Open Message Queue Maven Glassfish Plugin Ehcache and Glassfish If you are interested in these please come along and have a… Continue reading Glassfish Unconference – Moscone Center San Francisco 4 May 2008

I gave a case study on our use of Glassfish V1UR1 at the Sun Tech Days’ Glassfish Day in Sydney March 2008 for which the slides and podcast are available here. With Glassfish V2UR1 now out and a great roadmap to V3, Glassfish is looking great.

Ehcache has been honoured as the February 2008 SourceForge project of the month. See http://sourceforge.net/community/index.php/potm-200802/.

Ehcache Guide and Reference for the forthcoming 1.4.0 release is available as a book. The price for the high quality bound edition is USD49.95 plus shipping. The price for the downloadable print-ready version is USD37.50. The book has 154 pages and covers the following: – Preface – Introduction – Getting Started – Dependencies – Cache… Continue reading Ehcache Guide and Reference now available as a book

The beta version of ehcache-1.4 is available on sourceforge and the Maven central repository. This version significantly enrichens the ehcache API and enhances extension of ehcache. The new features are: You can now define CacheLoaders in the ehcache core API. They supplement the existing SelfPopulatingCache. They can be configured in ehcache.xml or programmatically. They can… Continue reading Ehcache-1.4 beta Released

Ehcache 1.4, which is nearing completion, adds some user requested features such as ExceptionHandler(s). These are implemented in ehcache as dynamic proxies. One todo I have had is to investigate the performance degradation from use of same. An article by Brian Goetz (fellow JSR107 member) on IBM developerworks a few years ago predicted a 2x… Continue reading Dynamic Proxy Performance

I heard today that I am going to be on the Interim Governance Board for the GlassFish community. It might be worth mentioning some of the stuff I have been doing with Glassfish so that everyone can see the perspective I will be bringing to the board. At work we went live with Glassfish V1… Continue reading Interim Governance Board for the GlassFish community.

Max Poon, from Sun Microsystems, has put together a great step-by-step demo showing how to  use the new ehcache-1.3.0 JMX features. His demo also covers setting up Hibernate 3. The demo is NetBeans centric but can still be followed by those on other IDEs. See  Extending the NetBeans Tutorial JSF-JPA-Hibernate Application, Part 2 – Enabling… Continue reading JMX Demo for ehcache-1.3.0

Mailing List Set up At JavaOne the members of JSR107 present agreed to conduct technical deliberations in public view. Anyone can go to https://jsr107.dev.java.net and see what we are up to. In particular discussions are taking place on the jsr107 AT jsr107.dev.java.net mailing list. Go to https://jsr107.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectMailingListListto search the archive or set up an RSS… Continue reading JSR107 (JCache) Update

The spnego project has released version 1. The Spnego project is a Kerberos over SPNEGO plugin for JSR196 compliant application servers. Right now the Glassfish betas are compliant, with other appservers like JBoss expected to be compliant soon. The plugin lets your Java web applications participate in a Kerberise Single Sign On environment. Log in… Continue reading Spnego 1.0 Released – Now everyone can do Kerberos