Friday Mar 16, 2007
Jagadish Ramu has written a demo and tutorial article to show how GlassFish and Sequoia can be used together to provide database clustering capability with Apache Derby / Java DB.
Sequoia is an open source database clustering middleware that allows any Java application to transparently
access a cluster of databases through JDBC. No code change is required to enable an application to have failover, replication capabilities.
This demo will have the modified sample application from Netbeans, deployed in GlassFish,
interacting with Sequoia controller for database operations with Apache Derby. The only change needed in the sample is to
configure the properties of jdbc-connection-pool to interact with the Sequoia controller.
Thursday Mar 08, 2007
A nice spotlight on Open Source and Sun's contribution. Dan Roberts, Director of Marketing at Sun, chats with Simon Phipps, Sun’s chief open source officer.
"Did you know that Sun contributes more than $200 million per year of intellectual property to the open source movement, in dozens of open source projects? The company’s historical contribution tops $2 billion."
You can also find more about Sun's Free and Open Source initiatives at http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/
Java DB (Sun's supported distribution of Apache Derby) is one of the projects I'm proud to work on.
Sunday Mar 04, 2007
"Java ES (Enterprise System) already includes Java DB, Sun's supported distribution of the open-source Apache Derby database. The middleware also supports the PostgreSQL open-source database.
Sun now lays claim to more than 1.3 million subscribers for Java ES compared to the nearly 1 million it declared in October 2005."
Wednesday Feb 14, 2007
This NetBeans tutorial contributed by Talley Mulligan guides you through the process of connecting the GUI of an application to a Java DB database. It shows how to add data-aware JDBC components to the GUI that will enable the program to interact with the database.
If you have not seen it already, there is also a "Working with the Java DB (Derby) Database in Netbeans 5.5" tutorial contributed by Brian Leonard.
Friday Feb 02, 2007
I have been using Nabble for quite some time now and I have to say that it provides a great way to search and browse archived mailing lists.
If you need to get some Derby questions answered, you might want to do a search on the Apache Derby Users mailing list or the developers one, if you want to know more about Derby internals.
Of course, there is additional resources on the Apache Derby website itself.
Tuesday Jan 16, 2007
David Spector has published an interesting article about Apache Derby on the Open Source Report blog.
Tuesday Dec 05, 2006
For those who haven't seen it - Sun's webcast original announcement of Open Sourcing Java can be found here as well as some overview of the Open Source JDK project.
Tuesday Nov 21, 2006
There is a new databases community at OpenSolaris.org.
This community is about all databases on Solaris. It is for both users of databases as well as those of us involved in creating and delivering database technology.
Topics will range from:
* How to make your database run best on Solaris
* Ideas for improving Solaris to better enable database technology
* Comparison and contrast of various database technologies
* Pointers to open source database add-ons, tools, and other code
* Other topics related to databases on Solaris
Please feel free to join in and participate!
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