Besides Postgres, NeverBlock now also supports MySQL through the new MySQLPlus adapter. InfoQ talked to two of the developers of MySQLPlus and discussed NeverBlock and non-blocking database adapters with developers of Ruby's Oracle and SQLite interfaces.

The development team at CohesiveFT has kickstarted a free Django community portal for developers who want to include the 1.0 version of the framework in their apps, test and deploy production-reader servers to the cloud in real-time. Check it out.

Thousands of Threads and Blocking I/O: The Old Way to Write Java Servers Is New Again (and Way Better)

I recently had reason to write a REST server in PHP, which was very interesting. There aren't a whole lot of resources on this topic around so I thought I'd write an outline of what I did. There is quite a lot to it so I'm publishing in multiple sections - this is part 1, which covers the central functionality and handling the incoming request.

The recurring question was: how big is the jar needed for compiling / unit test of the EJB 3 pojos? The preview of EJB 3.1 distributed with Glassfish prelude v3 (javax.ejb-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar) is: 42.2 KB (not MB).

How to use XStream for marshalling including annotations and custom converters.

If your application is still running on the 1.4 or even 1.5, a compelling argument to upgrade to Java 6 is just over the eastern horizon. That reason is the Garbage First Garbage Collector otherwise known as G1. After I explain how it works, I’ll explain why I think this collector is about to change the face of GC.

Is the JCP doing its work? Sometimes I sincerely doubt it

This is text no. 8 in a tutorial series on Java Reflection. This text discusses Java Reflection's dynamic proxies. Dynamic proxies is another term for runtime interface implementation. Implementing interfaces at runtime via dynamic proxies is often used in frameworks as a way to achieve either connection and transaction management, AOP-like method interception, dynamic mock objects for unit testing, or when adapting a DI container to your custom factory interface, to avoid dependencies on the container.

JBoss Cache 2.2.0 is the recommended release for all 2.x users, as it contains a number of internal enhancements and performance improvements (particularly in replication). It also contains a number of important bug fixes, and a few new features including an Amazon S3 cache loader implementation contributed by Elias Ross.

In the past couple of years, I have talked with colleagues and read articles about the complexity of WebSphere and the resources it uses. There are alternatives to WebSphere when you need a Servlet or JSP container. Apache Tomcat is probably one of the better known competitors to WebSphere. However, I would like to introduce you to another one that is smaller, easier to manage, and just plain works: Jetty.

Choosing blogging software can be a scary process, especially if you are new to blogging. There are many different types of blog software and content management systems (CMS) that could be used. Picking the software that you’ll need is not an easy task, given the wide variety and types on the Web today.

Ruby 1.9's Fibers and non-blocking I/O are getting more attention - we talked to Mohammad A. Ali of the NeverBlock (Async PostgreSQL and MySQL drivers using Ruby Fibers) project and Tony Arcieri of the Revactor (Erlang-style Actors) project.

Red5 now sends an MP3's ID3 data in the onMetaData event, so break out your player projects and give it a whirl.

Discover Jaxer, the first true Asynchronous JavaScript + XML server. Jaxer makes it possible to execute JavaScript code, Document Object Model, and HTML on the server side as well as giving you the ability to access server-side functions asynchronously from the client side. This article describes the features of Jaxer and shows the great potential that Jaxer has to offer.

Introducing integrated S3 statistics for your buckets. Look at who's accessing files in your buckets, traffic patterns, and other details. Super simple to setup and just a single click away.

I'll show you in this article how to setup the CMS Joomla on Glassfish. We won't need Apache for this one. There are few ways to do PHP on a J2EE server. I'll describe what I think the easiest way. First we will need to download and install PHP using PHP/JavaBridge.

Hello, my name is Sam Ceccola, I have been involved with use of Java technologies in the industry and the government communities since 1998. For me this started with Bluestone software (later purchased by HP), then with BEA and now I have the privilege of joining Azul Systems (this is my first blog entry for them). At Azul we have been working with an increasing number of military customers, which in-and-of itself is a testament to what we see as growing use of Java within the defense community. One point to add to this discussion is in terms of overall infrastructure that is available – that’s where we see a significant gap between Ada and Java. A couple examples that highlight this are the availability of programmers over time, and the number of COTS solutions available to fine-tune Java applications. Over time we see the pool of well-trained developers shrinking for Ada, versus continued growth for Java. This is matched by the vendor and tool base situation – in 2003 Venture Development Corporation (VDC) estimated that the market would be flat for Ada at $49M/year, as opposed to Java’s growth from $1B/year in 2003 to over $1.5B in 2007.

In the last days I tried to install and configure a Glassfish and a Liferay cluster for a client. From what I see in Internet is a lot of "old" documentation for Glassfish / Liferay clustering and nothing related to latest versions of Glasfish / Liferay (glassfish v2ur2 and Liferay 5.1.1), and I know this documentation also will become old in some months :) . So I intend to write (as best as I can) a very simple documentation about how I manage this to work and what problems I found trying to do this.

The story of how a stolen laptop and a careless employee got me banned from my favorite pawn shop.

Latency is bad, mmmkay. But just how bad is it? And what can you do about it? It's very bad, and there's quite a bit you can do to alleviate its badness.

My home office has just about everything needed for a productive development environment. Its stocked with the essentials (test server, quality monitor, good lighting), a few "nice-to-haves" (Wacom tablet, comfy chair) and a some fluf (sound system, Betamax and VCR). It has at least one item I would rather do without (phone). When Data Robotics announced the new Firewire800 Drobo, the time was right to fill a home office void: reliable versioning and backups.

Article on things NOT to do, when building scalable software

It covers integrating RichFaces into the previous sample application, deploying a RichFaces portlet, and several features and capabilities of RichFaces.

Sun Microsystems is challenging database partner Oracle with a middleware offer to woo customers of its newly acquired BEA Systems business. Sun has capitalized on Oracle jacking up licensing of the BEA middleware products with an offer for its own open-source suite complete with a 12-month price lock in. The offer expires on the day before Halloween, October 30, 2008.