Glen

JMX + JBoss + Commons Modeler = Baby!

Ok. I’m extremely pumped. I’ve just used commons modeler to deploy an MBean to JBoss and it’s actually working! Commons Modeler makes JMX so incredibly simple compared to doing this stuff by hand, that I had to see the thing running before I believed it. Now, JBoss has its own way of deploying MBeans via a declaritive XML mechanism, which is cool, but I’m after something that I...

Glen

(P)Reviewing Jakarta Commons in Action

I’m doing a review of a new Manning Book called “Jakarta Commons in Action” and it is one sensational piece of work. This is the ultimate missing manual to the Commons suite, and there is stacks to learn here, even if you’ve used a few of the commons suite in your projects. What I *love* about this book is not just the content but also the writing style. All of the examples...

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ehcache is one funky cache

I’ve started exploring some of the available cache software out there, and kicked things off with ehcache. I’ve gotta say that first experiences have been excellent! It’s been very easy to learn, (create a CacheManager, create a Cache, add the Cache to the CacheManager, presto!), and it’s a very tight implementations (50Kb). Persists itself to disk. Handles expiry of elements...

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Supressing XDoclet tags in Javadoc (from Ant)

If your project uses XDoclet and you’re sick of seeing those warnings like: warning - @web.servlet is an unknown tag. then what you’re after is the new Ant 1.6 <tag> element of the <javadoc> task. You can use this bad boy by embedding something like: <tag name="web.servlet" scope="all" enabled="false"/> in your source. Be warned, though, if you’re trying to...

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Commercial-friendly Embedded Db Options

For our little spam filter app, we’ve been evaluating embedded storage options. For commercial apps, the options are surprisingly few. HSQL and McKoi are nice but neither sports a commercial-friendly license. Axion shows a lot more promise (but it’s dependent on an older version of commons-collection). Of the commercial options, you’ve got Daffodil and ObjectDb which both look very...