Involver - Online video marketing platform using JRuby-on-Rails on GlassFish
Involver.com is an online video marketing platform that allows brands to
build, promote, manage, and track video campaigns on social networks
for targeted audiences. The heart of this platform is a
Ruby-on-Rails application using JRuby 1.1.6 served by GlassFish v2 UR2.
They found "pack of mongrels" as inefficient use of human and machine resources. After deciding on WAR-based packaging and looking at alternatives, GlassFish was chosen because of "well-defined public roadmap and release cycle" and "high degree of community overlap between JRuby and GlassFish projects". The admin console greatly reduced the setup cost which was another key factor for choosing GlassFish.
They use JMS queues to deal with "long running" tasks in
single-threaded Rails environments. They are very impressed with the
performance and big fans of the web-based admin console.
The detailed GlassFish questionnaire provide additional details on all of the above.
Posted at 06:00AM Mar 05, 2009 by Arun Gupta in OnlineServices | Comments[3]
SFR - Developer APIs, GlassFish-powered
If you're a Vodafone customer and have traveled to France, you've been using the SFR cellular network, the second largest in the country with 19 Million subscribers (almost 5 million 3G subscribers) and number one European non-historical telecom operator.
Project RED (Rich Enabler Distribution), the code name of the "SFR Developer Zone" Initiative (devzone.ateliersfr.fr), offers developer APIs to access the SFR core network features such as sending SMS, MMS, geo-localizing mobile devices, ... and has chosen to deploy on GlassFish in clustered mode and MySQL. The services have been live since last November (2008) with good feedback from the developers community.
This experience started with a prototype developed on Tomcat which was then industrialized on top of GlassFish. The clustering feature of the application server has been a crucial point to scale to the demand of the developers. OpenMQ is also part of the technical solution. Read all the details in this questionnaire.
Posted at 09:00AM Feb 12, 2009 by Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine in Telecommunications |
Wotif.com, a strong OpenMQ reference
Australia's Wotif.com is a successful business that has grown quite a bit in the past year and a half, becoming the number one hotel website in both Australia and New Zealand. Each month, Wotif.com attracts over 3.2 million visitors and processes more than 200,000 bookings for 11,000 hotel partners around the world as explained in this detailed story.
Beyond Wotif.com's extensive use of GlassFish, this story also mentions who they migrated from Apache Active MQ 3 to Open Message Queue 4.0. Architect Greg Luck calls "Open Message Queue to be faster than Active MQ and rock solid in production”. You'll find more details on this slide deck and this set of videos.
Posted at 05:00AM Aug 22, 2008 by Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine in eCommerce | Comments[1]
SNCF, another customer getting on the GlassFish train
Yet another "Travel" story for GlassFish. This time, it's the French railways company, SNCF. Their GlassFish-powered monitoring application produces alerts, a real-time graphical representation of key system variables as well as PDF reports.
If you've ever traveled to France you know about SNCF, the railways company and its high speed train the TGV. The company is now using GlassFish in production to monitor the complete (and somewhat complex) system, from the web to the IBM mainframe, including their links to partners such as Amadeus, Sabre, and Galileo or other European railways systems.
From a technical point of view, SNCF uses JMS (OpenMQ), JSF, JavaDB/Derby with connection pooling, security realms, and Hibernate's JPA implementation. JasperReports is used for PDF generation while quicktime and JavaSwf is used for Flash content. The administration console and full Java EE 5 compliance are clearly stated by Franck Leprêtre, Software Architect at SNCF, as key GlassFish features.
Make sure you read the full questionnaire to learn how and when they first found out about GlassFish, how this Java EE 5 product helped them improve their code, among other tidbits.
Posted at 11:18PM May 27, 2008 by Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine in Travel | Comments[0]