My wife is newly involved with a Arbonne, a network selling cosmetics company. They set up in Australia a few months ago. She has an a website http://arbonnebrisbane.myarbonne.com.au . Anyway the web site did not work from Mac OS X or Linux from our home, only Windows (running in VM Ware). The problem was seen… Continue reading Adjusting the networking MTU on Mac OS X
Ehcache-1.4 beta Released
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
Dynamic Proxy Performance
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 finally figured out what Next G was good for
I am building a house in Northern New South Wales near the Queensland border in a mountainous area known as the Granite Belt. It is a wonderful area of Australia. As the local towns go it is in the middle of nowhere. I am building the house on the Maryland river adjacent to a gorge.… Continue reading I finally figured out what Next G was good for
Interim Governance Board for the GlassFish community.
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.
JMX Demo for ehcache-1.3.0
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
JSR107 (JCache) Update
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
Spnego 1.0 Released – Now everyone can do Kerberos
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
What’s happening with JSR107?
At JavaOne 2007 the JSR107 Expert Group reconstituted and conducted three sessions. We admitted some new members. Manik Surtani from JBoss is joining. Crazy Bob Lee too. I was already a member but bot made co-spec lead to help make sure the JSR kept moving. We decided to conduct technical discussions in the open. For… Continue reading What’s happening with JSR107?
Ruby in decline…
At JavaOne 2007 I spent some of my time trying to figure out where things are going. It has always seemed to me that you either knock yourself out keeping up with every last thing (shiny new toy syndrome) or you try to figure out what is going to be important and focus on that… Continue reading Ruby in decline…