Aug 6

Java System App Server first look   Posted by sharps, tagged with j2ee java

Where did the week go ?

By now I was hoping to have spent a fair amount of time kicking the tires of our next major rev. of our J2EE 1.4 application server - Sun Java System Application Server 2004Q4; as it is, all I managed to do was install it and create a cluster - which only took about 10 minutes. Most of that time was waiting for the installer; creating the cluster was click, click, done (more on the ease-of-use later).

So in the absence of anything informative and useful here's a screenshot of the web based admin console (click to get a bigger picture):

If you are familiar with 8 PE you can see the navigation tree on the left hand side has been changed to include clusters, node agents and configurations. I'll spend some time investigating these (and blogging) later. But basically they are an attempt to make management easier by separating physical deployment (machines) from logical configuration (cluster and instance definitions, etc.)

In general we have enhanced the UI across the board compared to previous versions and the look and feel will be consistent with other Java ES products.

The other thing that you might notice is that the admin console uses https - this is the default out of the box setting - part of our push to make things secure by default.

Note : this blog entry refers to a future product therefore the usual caveats apply - everything could change significantly between now and when it is released.