Scale-out is the norm for large web application deployments, but it poses many
challenges for stateful, time-sensitive systems. Here’s a high-level
discussion of the problem and which approaches solve it best.
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Online coverage from the Sun Developer Network staff 2008 JavaOne Conference
Sunday May 11, 2008
Friday May 09, 2008
Sun’s Jeff Kesselman showed how Project Darkstar vastly simplifies the process of building massively multiplayer online roleplay games (MMORPGs).[Read More]
Terrence Barr explored how the wireless industry is being reshaped by the reality of open source.[Read More]
Sun Labs engineers Stephen Green and Paul Lamere discussed the Project Aura recommendation engine that will make it easier to get desired information on the web.[Read More]
With wit and insight, Josh Berkus explained ten ways a company can destroy their open-source community.
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Sun’s spec leads for JSR 277, “Java Module System,” gave a technical session on design work on modularity and its effects on Java development and deployment. [Read More]
Yesterday I popped into Second Life
for a time to share my conference experience with the folks who were
unable to attend. It's always great to talk to these in-world
developers, as their enthusiasm for information is high and we have
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Thursday May 08, 2008
Many thoughtful, practical observations and insights.
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Groovy was designed to bring modern semantics to the Java bytecode. JRuby was designed to bring the richness of the Ruby language to the Java platform. How to choose?[Read More]
In the technical session titled "The NetBeans Ruby IDE: You Thought Rails Development Was Fun Before," Sun Principal Engineer Tor Norbye and Sun senior engineer Brian Leonard, both NetBeans experts, used the NetBeans IDE to quickly build a Ruby on Rails application. In the process, they demonstrated many of the features in the IDE that make it an attractive tool for Rails development.[Read More]
Wednesday May 07, 2008
Single sign-on and federation across enterprises made easy.[Read More]
This year's technical general session hosted by Sun Distinguished Engineer and chief technology officer for software, Bob Brewin, highlighted what's new in the Java EE and Java SE platforms. It was also spiced up by a variety of cool JavaFX-driven demos.
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With the shift to open source and open standards, people's expectations
have changed. There is no going back to the old proprietary model.
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Tuesday May 06, 2008
If you were frustrated with applets in the past, or completely given up
on them, it's time to take another look at the new Java Plug-In
technology. Now you can reap the following advantages from the
rewritten support . . .[Read More]
Monday May 05, 2008
Ludovic Poitou, community lead for OpenDS; and Jim Yang, project lead for Penrose, a Java technology-based directory server, presented at CommunityOne on the topic, "Getting Started on OpenDS.” This recap summarizes the goals, status, installation, and extensibility of OpenDS, also the infrastructure of Penrose, whose default provider is OpenDS.
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