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JAXLondon 2013 Impressions
This was my third year in a row speaking at JAXLondon. As the conference is in London my diary normally fills up with meetings during the conference and I have to dive in and out for my talk and miss...
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WebLogic 12c Does WebSockets - Getting Started
With the release of WebLogic 12.1.2 websocket support has come to WebLogic. In this blog post we'll show you how to write a simple websockets echo example just to get you started.Unfortunately the api...
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London GlassFish User Group - 'Code-driven Introduction to Java EE7' with...
The second London GlassFish User Group event, organised by C2B2 together with JaxLondon 2013 was a part of the conference Community Night – ‘a beer, wine and code fuelled ‘taster’ of the main...
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Oracle Dropping Commercial Support of GlassFish : My View
Oracle have just announced that commercial support for GlassFish 4 will not be available from Oracle. In light of this announcement I thought I would put together some thoughts about how I see this...
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MIDDLEWARE INSIGHT - C2B2 Newsletter Issue 12
MIDDLEWARE INSIGHTat the Hub of the Middleware Industrydelivered to you by C2B2 Consulting - The Leading Independent Middleware ExpertsDear Middleware User,Welcome to another issue of Middleware...
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SearchSOA Video Interviews With Jaromir Hamala
SearchSOASOA strategies for handling big data, beating latencyIncreased demand for big data management capabilities are spurring advances in Java middleware and middleware in general, according to...
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How to control *all* JTA properties in JBoss AS 7 / EAP 6
JBoss AS 7 and therefore EAP 6 comes with a great simplification of its configuration. Depending on your setup you can use either standalone.xml or domain.xml to configure everything! One file to rule...
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Poison Null Byte and the importance of security updates
Let's start with a small quiz. Can we trust that this code snippet will open files with the .jpg extension only? As the saying goes: Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the...
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C2B2 at DOAG German Oracle User Group Conference 2013
Mike Croft, Matt Brasier and Steve Millidge were speaking at DOAG - German Oracle User Group Conference in Nuremberg last week (19-21 November). See below for the details of their talks and...
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UK Oracle User Group Tech13 Conference Impressions
I had the honor of presenting at the UK Oracle User Group's Tech13 conference last week in Manchester. This year the UKOUG decided to do something slightly different, and rather than one conference...
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MIDDLEWARE INSIGHT - C2B2 Newsletter Issue 13
MIDDLEWARE INSIGHTAt the Hub of the Middleware IndustryWelcome to the December issue of Middleware Insight - a newsletter that brings you only the most recent, most important and most interesting news...
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Java Middleware 2014 Predictions - Steve Millidge for The Server Side (by...
It's around this time of year that people ask you to make predictions for what'll happen in the middleware market in the New Year. There's something about Christmas time that makes you throw away your...
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5 Reasons to use a Java Data Grid in your application
In this post we explore 5 reasons to use a Java Data Grid for caching Java objects in-memory in your applications. In a later post we will explore some of the other data grid capabilities, beyond data...
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Who’s pulling the strings when it comes to provisioning IT systems, Puppet or...
As IT systems become larger, and require more frequent updates to leverage new business opportunities and maintain a competitive edge; the time to deploy and outage caused by these updates needs to be...
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Connecting JBoss WildFly 7 to ActiveMQ 5.9
We recently had the same question from a number of customers - how could they create a bridge between the HornetQ JMS implementation running in JBoss WildFly 7, and a stand-alone ActiveMQ server....
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MIDDLEWARE INSIGHT - C2B2 Newsletter Issue 14
MIDDLEWARE INSIGHTAt the Hub of the Middleware Industry Featured News 5 Reasons to use a Java Data Grid in your application - read moreJanuary Oracle Fusion Middleware Patches...
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An Introduction to Connection Pools in Glassfish
IntroductionIn this blog post I will be taking an introductory look at connection pools. To begin with I will look at answering some basic questions:What is a connection pool?Why are they needed?How do...
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Apache httpd 2.2 and not so sticky sessions
While I was troubleshooting a misbehaving application for one of our customer I found out the session stickiness was not working as expected on the Apache acting as a load balancer. I consider Apache...
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Hazelcast & Websockets
Over the past few years we have written many blogs demonstrating how Data Grid eventing frameworks can be hooked up to Websocket clients to deliver updates in real-time. One Data Grid product we...
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Wildfly 8.0.0.Final is Released
On Tuesday JBoss announced the release of WildFly 8.0.0.Final with full certification for the Java EE7 Web and Full profiles which makes JBoss the first of the "big" vendors to distribute a certified...
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