Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
… Heroku finally got around to supporting Java. But they couldn’t do it without first piling on some hate. Why then, if Java is such a miserable platform to develop on would Heroku bother ? Here are a couple of thoughts : 1. Huge Developer Base 2. Massive Adoption 3. Large, Active Ecosystem Only Java [...]
JBoss AS 7 has been out for a week – probably not enough time for opinions to be formed You probably didn’t see Red Hat’s press release as those things are typically only read by the press so I wanted to draw to you attention a few JBoss Application Server 7 represents a major milestone in the evolution of Java application servers from complex and monolithic to more lightweight, modular and agile. This release will enable developers to re-think how they develop and deploy enterprise Java applications.
Mike Gualtieri at Forrester has a rather sensationalist post with a rather sensationalist title “Stop Wasting Money On WebLogic, WebSphere, And JBoss Application Servers”. I agree with some of what Mike says and have been giving the same advice to developers, customer and users for at least the last decade. Specifically – choose the run-time [...]
Posted in java on Jan 5th, 2011
So after a fast sprint JBoss AS 6 was released at the end of the year and it passes the Java EE 6 (Web Profile) TCK. It’s great to see the culmination of efforts from fellow Red Hatters that went into this release. But Red Hat’s involvement in the future of Enteprise Java goes way [...]
Posted in Enterprise, java, Red Hat on Jan 3rd, 2011
Hey, 3 days into the New Year and my second blog post ! Another day, another survey – this one from Tools Vendor ZeroTurnaround. From what I can tell survey participants were self-selected – but the results underline what has been a solid trend over the last several years and I’ve seen the same in [...]
Posted in java on Nov 23rd, 2010
I tried to add a comment to the Forrester blog but I received a “Validation Error” – here’s my comment to Mike Gualtieri’s blog post : “Java Is a Dead-End for Enterprise App Development” Mike makes some valid points but to claim that Java is a dead-end is a bit sensationalist. By Forrester’s own data [...]
Posted in Business, Enterprise, java, open source, Red Hat on Nov 21st, 2010
There was a fairly innocuous post on the interwebs at the end of last week which Oracle employees have jumped all over in an effort to discredit JBoss. I’ll rise above the petty mud-slinging and instead use this post to explain the relationship between upstream projects that JBoss uses and the downstream platforms that JBoss [...]
These are encouraging signs that Oracle will continue to invest in OpenJDK and that it won’t follow the same fate as some other Sun Open Source projects like Open Solaris. I’ve long believed that OpenJDK has the opportunity to become the Linux Kernel for Enterprise developers. Kurian discussed the roadmap for JDK 7 and JDK [...]
Posted in Enterprise, java, Red Hat, Technology, Web on Jun 10th, 2010
I’ll be speaking at JBoss World / Red Hat Summit again this year. I’m part of 3 sessions focussed on JBoss : JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Roadmap, Wednesday 2pm I’ll be sharing our 3-year roadmap and will touch on Java EE 6, HornetQ, Infinispan, support next-Gen (aka Cloud) infrastructure. I’ll also go through some of [...]
Posted in Enterprise, java on Jun 2nd, 2010
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then they produce lame marketing videos, then you win.” – with apologies to the late Mahatma Gandhi. Actually, I’d say if your competitors are producing videos at the rate that the Websphere marketing team are producing them about JBoss I think you [...]