Java & In-Memory Tech Articles

Kerberos is cool

The last few weeks I have been working on a single sign on/Kerberos project. For anyone for whom either of those term is new, here is some food for thought. Windoze, Linux, Mac OS X (10.4), Firefox, IE, Apache, ssh… has, in the past 10 years been Kerberised. Rather than Microsoft’s Embrace Extend Annihilate being… Continue reading Kerberos is cool

I will be presenting at JavaOne 2007 on ehcache

For anyone attending JavaOne 2007 at the Moscone Centre in San Francisco I will be presenting a session entitled “Distributed Caching, Using the JCACHE API and ehcache, Including a Case Study”. Abstract follows: Title: Distributed Caching, Using the JCACHE API and ehcache, Including a Case Study on Wotif.com Abstract: Java EE web applications are typically… Continue reading I will be presenting at JavaOne 2007 on ehcache

Opening Up Glassfish to remote JMX monitoring

We are doing monitoring of our apps using ManageEngine Applications Manager. It supports JMX remoting. The latest patch release supports composite types. Very nice. Right now Glassfish is the new kid on the block. Support for it is not yet baked in to Applications Manager (but will be, according to their product manager). In the… Continue reading Opening Up Glassfish to remote JMX monitoring

Wotif.com live on Glassfish

Wotif.com, my employer, went live on Glassfish in mid January. I was the driving force behind the move. You can read about it on the Glassfish site here: http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/how_to_run_a_top . There is a questionnaire linked from the entry that is the raw question and answer source for the entry. You can see it here: http://blogs.sun.com/stories/resource/wotif/wotif_responses.html… Continue reading Wotif.com live on Glassfish

Dependency Management Choices: Maven, Ant + Maven Antlib, Ivy

We have a monolithic code base. It is something you end up with if you keep adding classes, without thought to larger modules. So how to solve the problem. Break the code up into modules. Also figure out how to combine these into applications. Then look at whether to run these together in the one… Continue reading Dependency Management Choices: Maven, Ant + Maven Antlib, Ivy

Online Site Trends

Luke Welling of Hitwise showed up some trends using the Hitwise database. It is mostly site visits. Interesting to compare this with Google Trends and Tiobe. Mailing lists seem to be getting replaced by feeds. Ubuntu matching Debian in May 06. Redhat is still getting more visits than all of the others combined. PostGres is… Continue reading Online Site Trends

Kiwi Foo – First two days

Distributed Stuff One was on distributed caching and file systems. We talked about memcached, ehcache and a new file system from Live Journal – Mogile FS. It is user space, so not really a true file system. It comes with a mod_mogile for Apache. Must take a look at that. It looks like use of… Continue reading Kiwi Foo – First two days