At The Server Labs, we often run into a need that comes naturally with the on-demand nature of Cloud Computing. Namely, we’d like to keep our team’s AWS bill in check by ensuring that we can safely turn off our Amazon EC2 instances when not in use. In fact, we’d like to take this practice [...]
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HTML5 Websocket vs Flex Messaging
Nearly 18 months ago, I wrote an article on this blog which showed how to develop a simple flex web application using ActiveMQ as a JMS server. It has proved a popular article so there must be a fair amount of interest in this topic.
With all the hype surrounding HTML5 at the moment, I [...]
Dynamically changing log level with Weblogic, log4j, JMX and WLST
Logging is an uninteresting but nevertheless fundamental part of application development. It is useful not just when you are coding an application but in diagnosing problems of any nature once an application passes into production.
Unfortunately, it is not that clear how to do logging well when developing JEE applications that are to be deployed [...]
Getting started with JBI4Corba and Apache Servicemix
I’ve recently been investigating the use of the JBI4Corba JBI Binding Component with the Apache ServiceMix Enterprise Service Bus. JBI4Corba permits a JBI compliant ESB to call corba code running outside of the bus (the consumer scenario) and to external code to call endpoints published on the bus via corba (the provider scenario).
Why is [...]
Eating our own Dog Food! - The Server Labs moves its Lab to the Cloud!
After all these years dealing with servers, switches, routers and virtualisation technologies we think it´s time to move our lab into the next phase, the Cloud, specifically the Amazon EC2 Cloud.
We are actively working in the Cloud now for different projects, as you´ve seen in previous blog posts. We believe and feel this step is [...]
