HP lays off 14,500
Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in General on 19/07/2005
Beside financial analysts, people are rarely happy to learn that a company decides to reduce its work force. Even when this company is a competitor. I am thinking about all these people that are or will be soon fired, how they will announce that to their family, how they will live for the next months and how important it is for them to start a new carreer. All my sympathy is for them, and I hope some smart people will be able to find their way to Sun.
Building Glassfish : a hardware performance comparison
Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in Java on 19/07/2005
Like I said in a previous entry, I started yesterday to build glassfish on some machines I have at my disposal :
- An Apple Powerbook G4, 1.25 Ghz, 512 Mb RAM with Mac OS 10.4.2
- An Intel based laptop, 1.8 Ghz and 2 Gb RAM with Solaris 10
- An Apple PowerMac G5, 2x 2.7 Ghz, 2.5 Gb RAM with Mac OS 10.4.2
The time difference to fetch the sources and building them is amazing. Without surprise, the PowerMac G5 left all the others behind.
Here is a summary :
| PowerBook G4 | Intel Laptop | PowerMac G5 | |
| checkout | 16 min | 15 min | 14 min |
| bootstrap | 32 secs | 24 secs | 21 secs |
| build | 71 min | 53 min | 31 min |
Building Glassfish on Mac OS X
Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in Java on 18/07/2005
I easily managed to build Glassfish on my Powerbook G4 !
This was really a piece of cake, I just followed the build instructions… and a couple of minutes later I had my own App Server 9 up and running, ready to discover Java Enterprise Edition 5.
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 71 minutes 28 seconds
Finished at: Mon Jul 18 16:14:39 CEST 2005
That’s just the compilation, the source checkout took some time too… 🙂
Most modules are shipped as Netbeans project, making it easy to modify them and recompile within Netbeans. Very detailed instructions are available on Netbeans web site
When you build Glassfish on Mac OS X, be sure of the following :
- Install Apple’s provided Java 5 (available only for Tiger)
- Install Maven 1.0.2 (version 1.1 beta does not work, sigh 🙁 )
- use “Darwin” as a value for
glassfish.os.nameinproject.properties
I will continue to test drive some Java EE 5 features… and will post any relevant info to this blog.
Enjoy !
LAMP revisited, the Sun way …
Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in General on 18/07/2005
The most popular open-source and end-to-end web platform today is certainly LAMP, named after the first letter of the softwares used :
- Linux, the operating environment
- Apache, the web server
- MySQL, the database
- PHP, Perl or Phyton, the programing languages
The openess, the low price tag and the qualities of this platform made it very popular amongst open-source developers and ISPs.
Is Sun able to challenge this ? Let’s see our open-source software stack :
- Obviously, we have an operating environment : OpenSolaris
- we have an enterprise class application server : GlassFish
- we have web single sign-on technology : OpenSSO
- and we have the best development and deployment platforms : Java Standard Edition and Java Enterprise Edition
All, but the Java platforms, are open-sourced under the terms of the OSI approved CDDL license.
What are the missing pieces ?
- Most importantly, a database. For sure, Sun will not compete with the Oracle of this world anytime soon, but this interview indicates we might add an open-source database to our software portfolio
- An OSI approved open-source license for the Java platform is definitively something asked for by the community. My opinion is that Java is already built very openly : Mustang source code is available, everyone can submit a patch to correct or improve it and the bug database is fully open as well.
We think that interoperability is of greater value for the Java community. We therefore enforce compatibility for all implementations, something we would not be able guarantee with a 100% open-source Java platform
This list is pretty short, isn’t it ? We indeed are soon in a position to offer a full open-source stack of softwares for web applications. With the additional benefit of being in a position to offer enterprise-level support and services to deploy it and integrate it in an existing IT infrastructure.
The end of LAMP ? I don’t think so, LAMP is vastly used, cheap and offer a excellent quality. But watch out the industry moves, maybe the next LAMP is JOGx (Java, OpenSolaris, Glasfish and … a database)
Sharing is good ! You will end up with more choice.
More information on Access Manager vs OpenSSO
Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in Java on 15/07/2005
Information keeps coming and we recently learned that OpenSSO will contain a subset of modules integrated into our Access Manager, mainly :
- Authentication
- Single domain web SSO
- J2EE Agent for our Application Server and Web Agent for our Web Server
Multi-domain SSO and our Liberty implementation are not part of this initial announce.
Sun plans to open-source Access Manager
Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in Java on 14/07/2005
JavaONE is just over the corner and the announces continue flowing in … After our Application Server (project Glassfish), after OpenSolaris, it is now the turn of our Access Manager to become an open-source project : named openSSO.
I am particularly excited about this, Access Manager is a great product and at the heart of many secure Portal I have been involved with. This is a great technology for Authentication, Single Sign-On and Liberty-enable your existing (and future) web applications.
US Gov. keeps control over the internet
Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in Java on 02/07/2005
JavaONE 2005 close up & pictures
Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in Java on 30/06/2005
JavaONE 2005 is over – what a great edition it was ! Java is 10 years old now and the celebrations were great. This year’s focus was clearly on Service Oriented Architecture and Desktop Development ( SwingX, AJAX , Creator 2 ea, Netbeans, Matisse, …).
Don’t forget to check an additional set of pictures just posted.
We have a great year ahead ! Take care & Have fun
Netbeans has good press [UPDATED]
Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in Java on 30/06/2005
Just found an excellent review of Netbeans 4.1.
Worth a reading.
[Updated 30 June] OK, I have to admit we can find very pessimistic views over Netbeans as well. Needless to say, I disagree with David’s conclusion :-). But he is right on one point : Eclipse has more market share and more market recognition. IMHO, this is due to the fact that we did not improve Netbeans as fast as the market was expecting during the last 4 years, leaving the room open for new comers. These days are gone. Netbeans is back on track, with a solid foundation, many great features, great performance and excellent usability. We know we are behind but we now have all the qualities to significantly progress. Try Netbeans today !
Sun will please 4.985.000 developers !
Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in Java on 30/06/2005
We got the official announcement this morning during the General Session : all presentations will be freely available (slides and video) by the end of August.
Well, Sun is saying there is 4.5m Java developers.
We were 15,000 attending JavaONE this year.
This is a chance for the other 4,985,000 developers to grap the exceptional content of the 200+ technical sessions adn 160+ BOFs delivered this year.
Content will be available on the Sun Developer Connection (free registration is required)