InfoQ has an article about Geronimo passing the muster for Java EE 5.http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/06/geronimo-passes-cts To date the following Java application servers are at Java EE compatibility: JBoss 4.2 (not CTS certified, but JBoss says it supports JEE 5)BEA WebLogic 10GeronimoGlassfish (Sun Application Server)Oracle Application Server 11Apusic Application Server 5.0 (….and no, I’ve never heard of thus … Read more
This is now my second trip to SFO for JavaOne. After being at LotusSphere in March (where IBM announced Notes 8 Beta), I’ll have to say this is the better conference to attend. I’m also going to the Rational Software Developer Conference in Orlando in June, and I have my doubts about it. JavaOne has … Read more
Interesting post from Slashdot on what Sun has announced regarding FX (I mentioned in my previous blog). http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3676226. This was announced less than 12 hours ago at JavaOne. I have not been to any sessions on it as of yet, but it does seem like an AJAX competitor (some say killer). Its amazing how quickly … Read more
Its opening day today at JavaOne (I was here yesterday for Java University). I’m sitting in the keynote address. Some cool things are being announced, as is typical in any opening general session. I’ll comment when I can, and I’ve got a bunch of other material I’ve been saving up – so expect a lot … Read more
When you first start Portal 6 up (or Portal 5.1 for that matter), no matter what gear you are running it on, its going to seem slow. If you are doing an install, or planning on doing one, add this to your post-install task list: wpsconfig action-precompile-jsp This will precompile all JSPs within Portal. It … Read more
In looking at the troubleshooting section of the Portal 6 infocenter, I ran across a good troubleshooting article. http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=688&context=SSHRKX&q1=enable-security-wmmur-ldap&uid=swg27008792&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en To reiterate one of the key points in the LDAP setup, you MUST disable global security before running the enable-security task.“wpsconfig disable-security” Then validate your LDAP setup with“wpsconfig validate-ldap-wmmur” (the wmmur is for realm support) Once … Read more
This is a question I get frequently from new customers running WebSphere Application Server, and its a good question as its not well documented anywhere (or at least anywhere convenient). Every shop will need to IPL their iSeries at some point, and subsequently you want to bring down the Application server and HTTP servers gracefully … Read more
Portal installs out of the box using Cloudscape (a.k.a. Apache Derby). Needles to say, this is not a scalable database, but is appropriate for demos. A RDBMS is very CPU and disk intensive and often memory intensive as well. Separating the db from the Portal is the first step in scaling a Portal environment up. … Read more
I signed up for the Beta program, but am still waiting. I don’t see the downloads available yet on the partner site yet. I am hoping that RSA/RAD 7 is going to be like what we saw at JavaOne in May from Eric Gamma et al. That demo blew me away. I think it makes … Read more