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The Server Labs @ the Cloud Computing Expo Europe 09

We are glad to announce that we are going to publish a paper and give a talk at the Cloud Computing Expo Europe Paper Title: Cloud Science: Astrometric Processing in Amazon EC2/S3 Paper Abstract: With the maturing of cloud computing, it is now feasible to run scientific applications in the cloud. Data storage and high [...]

JBoss Remoting + JBoss Serialization kills JavaRMI and Spring Remoting

We have found recently this powerful libray provided by JBoss. The performance we have gain in terms of speed is that JBossRemoting + JBossSerlization is 8.72 times faster than JavaRMI + JavaSerialization (JDK 6 update 11) In our real scenario, basically we are sending a list of around 100000 user defined objects from clients to [...]

Sorry about the XML

We’ve recently noticed that XML in the blog posts has been displayed incorrectly. Specifically this has happened when the XML element contained a hyphon e.g. . In the recent Flex/Blaze post, the web.xml was rendered like this: <!– Http Flex Session attribute and binding listener support –> <listener> </listener><listener -class>flex.messaging.HttpFlexSession</listener>   <!– MessageBroker Servlet –> [...]

Flex with JMS using BlazeDS, Jetty and ActiveMQ

I recently had to develop a small web-based client that exposed results from a JMS Topic to a user. I’ve used Flex in the past and liked it so I thought I’d develop the client in Flex instead of using a standard Java Webapp. A Flex client cannot talk to a JMS topic or queue [...]

Automated integration testing with Selenium, Maven and Jetty

Here at The Server Labs we place a high value on automated unit and integration tests and believe that they are fundamental whether you are using an agile methodology or not. We use Maven on the vast majority of our projects and we often use Jetty as a web container in plain Java web projects [...]