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Java gets cloud-y

Josh Fruhlinger — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:53:32 -0400

I'm on the record as Not Getting The Hype when it comes to cloud stuff; only time will tell whether this makes me like the guy who refused to get on the Network Computer bandwagon in 1997, or the guy who refused to get on the Internet bandwagon in 1994. But that hasn't stopped everyone else in the world from going stone code nuts, cloud-wise.

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Java: A platform for platforms

Athen — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:43:25 -0500

Not long ago, JW blogger Josh Fruhlinger began asking the question: What happens to Java without Sun? The general sentiment among commenters has been -- perhaps a bit defensively -- "Nothing happens to Java without Sun! Don't you realize it's open source?"

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App servers rated - developers weigh in

Athen — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:05:53 -0400

A recently released Evans Data developer survey ranks application servers based on 21 factors, including performance, security, database connectivity, scalability, and cost benefit. Esther Schindler in CIO.com reports that Apache Geronimo, JBoss AS, and WebLogic get high marks from developers surveyed. Glassfish also did well in the Java EE server niche category. According to Schindler's report, developers are less fervent in support for WebLogic today than in 2006, a decline Evans Data associates with uncertainty about the product's future (in wake of the Oracle acquisition of BEA).

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JBoss 5 is here! (Almost.)

Josh Fruhlinger — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:24:14 -0400

In the two years or so since Red Hat acquired JBoss, work on the next major upgrade to the app server has rumbled along and release dates have been pushed back; but it now looks like release candidates will be available by this fall. The question for all of you: do you still care? JBoss is a huge part of the Java ecosystem, but there's something about a long lead time that can drain the excitement out of things.

Red Hat settles Hibernate patent suit

Josh Fruhlinger — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:57:23 -0400

If you're one of the many, many people who use the Hibernate ORM framework, you may or may not know that Red Hat was being sued by a patent troll company that claimed that Hibernate infringed on its intellectual property. (I'm not sure what their patent covered -- the very concept of object-relational mapping itself? I hope not...)

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Sun and Liferay -- cooperation before acquisition?

Josh Fruhlinger — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:17:58 -0400

Sun and Liferay have just announced that they're cooperating, sharing work on their respective open source portal projects (Sun's is OpenPortal). Julien Viet thinks this is a prelude to an acquisition -- but as toiler on JBoss's own portal project, perhaps his perspective is skewed?