It’s been a while since my last blog. I’ve obviously been busy with different things including my main job. After some more questions regarding the right choice for application servers cross my way it is the right time to pick this topic up again and share my thoughts. One of the most read post on this blog is the post ...

It is this time of the year again. Christmas holidays are approaching fast and the Java Advent Calender is filling up constantly. Today it’s on me to write my surprise post. I’m Markus, also known as @myfear and I’ve been working with and around Java EE and a bunch of related servers since many years. Beside the daily work I ...

We’ve all heard it coming probably. Yesterday the official roadmap update for JavaEE and GlassFish was updated and published. And beginning with the title the whole post was basically about one thing: GlassFish Server as we know it today is deprecated from a full blown product to a toy product. The Long Road from Sun to Oracle GlassFish was something to ...

I’m back since a few days already and needed to catch up with all the things which had been on hold for the last couple of days. It was the busiest time of the year for me. A complete week of JavaOne and OpenWorld in San Francisco. A very brief travel report. Annual ACED Briefing Many of you know that ...

I have many hobbyhorses. Coming all the way from the early Java EE specifications and having done the “cloud” excursion with Java EE 7 I was curious to see what newly announced CapeDwarf project has in stock to bring Google’s Platform as a Service offering “Google App Engine” on premise. The Story so Far I did play around with App ...

It has been a while since we last heard of this fancy little thing called Mission Control. It came all the way from JRockit and was renamed to Java Mission Control. This is one of the parts which literally survived the convergence strategy between HotSpot and JRockit. With today’s Java SE 7 Update 40 you can actually use it again. ...

Back in May Oracle awarded a Compatibility Testing Scholarship to the Eclipse Foundation. This got some attention in media during the last days and I just wanted to make sure that I shine some light on the whole process and the action in detail. What does look like a simple and honest gift on first sight actually has more aspects ...

Yesterday was CPU day. Oracle released the Java SE update 25 with the June Java Critical Patch Update. After the last major update in April this is the last one which does not fit into the Oracle Critical Patch Update schedule along with all other Oracle products. Starting in October 2013, Java security fixes will follow the four annual security ...

Java EE 7 is a couple of days old already. We all have had a chance to either watch the live launch events or the available replays. The last MR releases finished pushing their stuff to the JCP and it basically is a wrap. Time to reflect on what happened and what I think about it. Community Participation within the ...