Archive for the 'J2EE' Category
How I Ported an Online Gaming Application from (Not-So-) Good-Old-JEE to GigaSpaces in Only 4 Days
July 24th, 2008I recently had the interesting challenge of moving a traditional JEE shop into the next generation of application server technology. You might be surprised to hear that the transformation took me only four days (two of them spent on Hibernate issues!). The application was an online gaming application, originally implemented in EJB 2.0 and running [...]
Integrating GigaSpaces persistency service into an existing tier based system
April 23rd, 2008A common issue I’m facing recently is how to integrate existing tier based applications with GigaSpaces persistency service, AKA persistency as a service (Paas) or mirror . The motivation is often a result of the acknowledgment that a standard tier based application fails to scale when facing the database throughput limitation.
Software Caching technologies (overlooking their [...]
.Net Customer Announcement: Susquehanna (SIG)
March 11th, 2008In the past few months we've made several exciting announcements, such as our partnership with SpringSource , the expansion of our executive team, the launch of our community site OpenSpaces.org , the OpenSpaces Developer Challenge and the Start-Up Program . But there is nothing like a customer announcement, as in today's press release [...]
Explaining to your boss (or your wife:)) why tier based architecture doesn’t scale
January 31st, 2008Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of presenting at the NY JavaSIG. The event was hosted by an old friend, Frank Greco, who has been doing a really great work keeping the NY Java community up to date with…
Oracle aquisition of BEA - The kiss of death for the “open” J2EE App Server
January 18th, 2008The claim to fame of the J2EE application server market was the ability to define a standard platform for running business applications, and then have multiple vendors competing on providing the best implementation of that standard. Oracle’s acquisition of BEA…
