Oracle Acquired Tangosol

Last year it was TimesTen and SleepyCat (BerkeleyDB).
This year it is Tangosol.
Who will be the next?

This database giant acquired Tangosol (vendor of Coherence data cache which has been used in many large financials), adding to its "Extreme Transaction Processing" initiative.

http://go.techtarget.com/r/1194471/5981609
http://www.oracle.com/tangosol/index.html

Installing Solaris 10 on SunFire V210

Because most of my time, I have spent in the development, this event is considered a rare occasion: a hands-on experience on plain Sun SPARC based 64-bit machine. This time I have it all in my power: SunFire V210. A machine which you could install, reinstall, configure, reconfigure the way you want it.
In my opinion, it was much easier to install Solaris 10 on Sun's machine, than it was to install one on a virtual machine, or even on an ordinary PCs. The Auto Layout Disk went smoothly, no failure is necessary.
This is actually a rather old machine, used to test the installation script. The client doesn't want to go to their client and install the application only to find out that there's something missing in the installation script. So we fetch out a machine similar to the production platform: a SunFire V245. It is of a bigger size (2U, I think) compared to V210 (1U).

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Tuning your IntelliJ IDEA 6.0

I found some useful tips when using JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 6.0:

Turn off the "Synchronize files on frame deactivation" from [File - Settings - General] when your application source tree has become very large. This will save your time synchronizing unnecessarily when switching between windows. I often switch between processes using Alt-Tab key, and this setting saved me a great deal of time.

In the same menu, turn off "Reopen last project on startup" when working in more than one project. When your project grows large, and you switch between projects pretty often, it's nice not to have your IDEA opening the project, loading its mega collection of jars, sitting doing nothing for 5-15 minutes, and later found out it is not the project you are intended to open.

Good repository of JDK documentation

I always liked the way Allimant collecting the JDK documentation, in a .chm file! It saves me a lot of time browsing the JavaDoc in its standard format, or browsing and searching in the Internet. The pre-indexed .chm file makes me find anything I need much faster.

http://www.allimant.org/javadoc/

EDC Survey on Top 15 Application Server

Evans Data Center conducted survey on 70 users of application server, and compiled the result in this PDF document:

http://www.bea.com/content/news_events/white_papers/EDC_AppServersPro_V6_Final.pdf

After posting this into JUG-ID, of course there is several discussion, especially on the winner app server in this survey: WebLogic.

Josh asserted that WebLogic 8.1 does not provide hot deployment feature. Tjip asserted that on WebLogic 9 it is already implemented.
Sam asserted that Glassfish/SJAS is currently the only one in the top app server which complies to Java EE 5.

Only in Enterprise application

This is what I have encountered while consulting in enterprise application and in the telco industry:

• Garbage collector running for more than 1,5 minutes
• Customer care data of 15 million subscribers
• Data of more than 30 million cards
• Oracle 9i running query on HP/UX 11i for more than 36 hours

Only on JEE Application development:

• 2,500 database tables, 3,600 database views
• 3,800 Java classes, not including the OR/M models

Solaris 10 Installation

Today I tried to install Solaris 10 for x86. So far the installer has done an excellent job. The installation is more or less like installing an NT 4.0 box. I've got not much problems encountered.

The installer bundles the JDK 1.5.0_06 inside.