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Forking GlassFish
After I made a couple of remarks via Twitter regarding my perceived increase in the amount of Oracle WebLogic marketing material being posted on the GlassFish Twitter, Facebook, and blogs.oracle.com...
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Oracle Solaris 11 has no license fees!!
Seems that Oracle is busy pushing the boundaries of all that is disingenuous – as usual…
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Container based authentication with JSPWiki, GlassFish and OpenDJ
In this blog entry I am going to describe configuring JSPWiki to use container based authentication to authenticate LDAP users existing in an OpenDJ directory. I am using GlassFish as my web...
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Oracle’s megabucks Sun Servers – the best for enterprise environments…
…just don’t forget your Server Virtualisation for Dummies ebook:
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Sibelius and the risk of proprietary software
Before doing what I do now, I used to do music. It’s not an environment I’m involved in to any great extent any more, although I certainly wouldn’t rule out taking it up again at some point in the...
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Java 7 update 6 arrives, JavaFX now supported in the JRE for Linux
Quick post – the latest update to Oracle Java 7 features Mac OS supported as an equal peer to Windows and Linux – but perhaps more interestingly now includes full JavaFX runtime support in the JRE for...
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heliod – Oracle iPlanet Web Server forked as open source
Prior to the Oracle acquisition, I used to be a fan of Sun Microsystems’ web server product, Sun Java System Web Server. It had serious enterprise lineage, a terrific web admin BUI which beat the pants...
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heliod web server: fast then, still fast today
Quick post – as an update to my post here, Jyri Virkki has published a comprehensive set of benchmarks, comparing heliod’s out-of-the-box performance to all the other current popular HTTP servers out...
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Oracle nukes Sun Ray and VDI
I shouldn’t be surprised, but still: Oracle to halt development of Sun virtualization technologies What’s really, really rich was one of Oracle’s own folks only a couple of months ago stating the...
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Forking GlassFish Redux: Payara Server
In the time since I last wrote about the need for a fork of Oracle’s GlassFish Server, Oracle have effectively removed the viability of GlassFish as a production system by killing off professional...
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