Applications for Java

Will the SUN Set on the Hitachi Data Systems OEM Relationship? | SYS-CON MEDIA

On January 26th just prior to the official announcement of Oracles takeover of SUN Microsystems, I confidently predicted in my article SUNs Oracle Merger with regards to SUNs storage portfolio that One certainty is that the OEM partnership with HDS enterprise arrays will continue. Perhaps its time to eat some humble pie. If current indications are anything to go by, its more than likely that the SUN agreement of reselling HDS Enterprise Storage may be coming to an abrupt end.

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Oracle clearly have a different business approach to their customers than SUN Microsystems did, and that includes dealing with Hitachi Data Systems. Admittedly Ive never been a great fan of SUNs storage systems, often finding them to be the epitome of a server company that builds storage i.e. a box with lots of disks and sparse in-built intelligence. But with the recent launch of the 7000 series (which still may come under scrutiny by NetApp considering its more than coincidental similarities) and the intelligent storage systems built by Larry Ellisons other plaything Pillar Data Systems, their modular market is now pretty well covered. How Oracle/SUN could plan to cover the gap that will be left from a potential removal of the USPV / USPVM (ST9990V /ST9985V) could lie with the approach shown with the recent Exadata V2. Oracle databases that are directly attached to boxes chocked full of flash drives may well be the answer Oracle/ SUN will be offering to get themselves free from the entanglement of Enterprise storage vendors.

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midrange.com -- JAVA400-L -- Re: Unable to create Java Virtual Machine/QP2TERM Failures

Some information about verifying the installation for things like JAVA_HOME and the .properties is in 3.3.1 of:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247353.pdf

The last part of the quoted message shows an internal system failure, an abnormal failure for which presumably only a preventive PTF [or possibly some corrective action; e.g. reinstall of something] is required. The failure should be documented with a symptom string with some keywords something like the following:

msgMCH3203 T/QP2SYS stmt/0119 vl02001720 CALL QP2TERM

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New (very) rough drafts available for both Java and Lisp editions of "Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications"

While I have been following Semantic Web technologies for over 8 years, I find the slow adoption to be frustrating. I am trying to do my part to promote the Semantic Web by writing two editions of "Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications." One edition has examples in Java/Clojure/Scala/Jruby and the other has examples written in Common Lisp. There is a lot of common material in both editions so I expect people to only read the edition that covers their favorite programming language.

I will sell physical print books via lulu.com and there will always be free PDF versions on my Open Content web page. I hope to have the Java/Clojure/Scala/Jruby edition finished by early April and the Common Lisp edition finished sometime in early summer.

I just posted PDFs for both editions. That said, these are very rough cuts, with large sections still to be written.

There are a lot of very good Semantic Web tools and frameworks - both open source and commercial. I am using the commercial AllegroGraph product for both books (the free edition is very capable and sufficient for many applications). Additionally, all of the examples in the Java/Clojure/Scala/Jruby edition also work with the open source Sesame library (even the geolocation and text search examples because I layered this functionality on top of Sesame).

Labels: Clojure, Java, JRuby, Lisp, Scala, semantic web

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Confio Software Igniter Suite Tunes Database Performance Across Enterprises With Support for 85% of the Database Market

Confio Software, the leader in Wait-Time application performance management tools, sees momentum for its suite of database performance management tools across the entire enterprise. The comprehensive Confio Igniter Suite now includes specific versions of its database performance tuning tool for Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2 and Java. The Confio Igniter Suite empowers IT management and database administrators (DBAs) to monitor, analyze and optimize their enterprise databases and applications in an effort to improve service levels and reduce costs.

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"Since we developed our first database performance monitoring tool, Ignite for Oracle, we knew that there was the opportunity to help companies throughout their enterprise with a suite of tools," said Don Bergal, chief operating officer, Conf 5a8 io Software. "Working with our customers, we have developed a comprehensive suite to provide greater visibility into the causes of performance problems across the majority of databases used in large enterprises. This includes enterprises with a single database flavor or more commonly a mix of Oracle, Microsoft, IBM databases and Java J2EE applications."

Illustrated in a recent research report from Gartner. Inc. on Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS), Confio is well positioned to support a majority of databases. In the June 2007 report, "Market Share: Relational Database Management Systems by Operating System, Worldwide, 2006", Oracle has a 47.1 % worldwide market share, IBM has 21.1% worldwide market share and Microsoft has 17.4% worldwide market share based on total software revenue for 2006. Combined, the three vendors account for an estimated 85.6% of RDBMS. Source: Gartner Dataquest (June 2007)

The Confio Igniter Suite can be used across a mix of Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 and Java databases to speed the process of finding and resolving performance issues. For DBAs, Ignite identifies the exact modules and screens that affect database performance and the responsible source. Ignite also shows exactly where the problem resides and who should own the problem to ensure the best path to resolution.

"In the first month we used Ignite for SQL Server, it eliminated a hidden locking problem. We were having database waits of an average of 8-10 hours a day, and on some of our worst days, we even had up to 120-hour waits,"

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Identify Performance Bottlenecks in your BizTalk Environment – Part I Performance, Scalability and Architecture – Java and .NET Application Performance Management (dynaTrace Blog)

Identify Performance Bottlenecks in your BizTalk Environment – Part I

by Andreas Grabner, Feb 25, 10

Microsoft BizTalk enables companies to integrate and automate their business process(BPM). In a BizTalk environment messages are picked up by adapters and put through a robust message infrastructure where an orchestration engineallows you to implement your business processes. Along the way – a message takes – there are several points where performance of the overall message processing can be negatively impacted and therefore impacts your business.

I plan a series of blog entries on how to Identify Bottlenecks in BizTalk. I will give you background information on the BizTalk Environment – links to other interesting posts and MSDN articles and I will show you how you can follow a single message through your BizTalk system and identify where and what the problems are in case you have a problem. Lets get started:

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GITEX: SUN Microsystems | Gitex Dubai (Gitex Technology Week) | AMEinfo.com

SUN Miscrosystems' aggressive regional strategy will see it challenge several IT incumbents, including Microsoft and Dell, as SUN moves both into software and services. SUN forecasts 15%-20% growth in the Middle East for 2004, and even more if markets in Iran, Iraq and Libya open up.

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Sun Cites Java Gains In Wireless - 1970-01-01 00:00:00 | TWICE

CUPERTINO, CALIF. -- Sun Microsystems claimed gains in its efforts to encourage wireless phone and two-way pager makers to adopt its J2ME (Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition) platform.

The technology would add computing applications to wireless devices and applications that could potentially exchange data with client-server applications residing on corporate servers or on content-provider servers. These applications could be downloaded wirelessly to the portable devices from the server.

In addition, phone- resident contact lists and calendars could be updated wirelessly by an executive assistant through a J2ME-equipped enterprise server. Wireless multiplayer gaming is another potential application.

Recent gains for J2ME include Nokia's plans in 2001 to join Motorola in adding J2ME to select Web-browsing phones, said Bob Tennant, group manager for Sun's J2ME platform. Motorola's first J2ME phone, operating on U.S. iDEN networks, will be available in the fall.

In addition, Ericsson plans a hybrid PDA/phone incorporating the technology, and two-way pager maker Research In Motion told TWICE through a spokeswoman that it "expects to be shipping Java-enabled handhelds broadly in the fall time frame."

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NT/e Ltd releases CloudTran

NT/e Ltd has announced CloudTran, a middleware product that brings the Cloud into the mainstream as an application platform for Java. CloudTran provides a simple Java view of data, mission-critical transactions and automatic distribution in the Cloud. <br><br>The product builds on the GigaSpaces XAP platform, providing cloud transactions to SQL and NoSQL data stores, according to Nati Shalom, CTO and Founder of GigaSpaces.<br><br>CloudTran is said to manage transactions across many thousands of machines without losing data, even during outages. CloudTran is said to take pain and effort out of implementing Java in clouds. It lets developers focus on the application without having to worry about making it work in a distributed environment. <br><br>&#034;There are big hurdles to building scalable enterprise applications for cloud deployment - the need to cope with distributed programming, use both new and legacy data stores, according to Peter Varhol, Principal, Technology Strategy Research deliver high-speed and reliable transactions, and to deploy to both test and production environments. CloudTran provides an out-of-the-box Java solution to all these problems, allowing mainstream developers to reduce their risks, costs and timescales for building cloud applications.&#034;<br><br><br>Web site : www.cloudtran.com<br>Blog <a href=&#034;http://cloudslave.blogspot.com/&#034; target=&#034;_blank&#034;>http://cloudslave.blogspot.com/</a>").substring(0,300); return _diggURL ; } NT/e Ltd has announced CloudTran, a middleware product that brings the Cloud into the mainstream as an application platform for Java. CloudTran provides a simple Java view of data, mission-critical transactions and automatic distribution in the Cloud.

The product builds on the GigaSpaces XAP platform, providing cloud transactions to SQL and NoSQL data stores, according to Nati Shalom, CTO and Founder of GigaSpaces.

CloudTran is said to manage transactions across many thousands of machines without losing data, even during outages. CloudTran is said to take pain and effort out of implementing Java in clouds. It lets developers focus on the application without having to worry about making it work in a distributed environment.

"There are big hurdles to building scalable enterprise applications for cloud deployment - the need to cope with distributed programming, use both new and legacy data stores, according to Peter Varhol, Principal, Technology Strategy Research deliver high-speed and reliable transactions, and to deploy to both test and production environments. CloudTran provides an out-of-the-box Java solution to all these problems, allowing mainstream developers to reduce their risks, costs and timescales for building cloud applications."

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Compiling Java applications to native code | JavaWorld's Daily Brew

I could suggest another approach (compiling to native code through C) and a tool for it - JCGO (www.ivmaisoft.com/jcgo/). The tool translates a whole Java application (all its classes and the required classes of Java runtime library) at once (employing a number of optimizations) and produces highly-portable C code (one .c and one .h file for each class) which could be compiled (by some C/C++ compiler like GCC or Microsoft VC++) into an executable file for the target platform (e.g., Windows, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD or WinCE).

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Developing a Master-Detail View

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for creating a Web application that uses the Java Persistence API (JPA) version 2.0 with Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Release 1, Spring, EclipseLink, JavaServer Faces (JSF), and Oracle Database, Express Edition. You will develop this application using Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g Release 1, Patchset 1 (11.1.1.3). During the process of creating this application, you'll also get a sneak peek at planned enhancements to the Eclipse Web Tools Platform.

Application Description

The Web application you will develop in this tutorial is designed for a company that sells a variety of products. The application will maintain a list of products for sale as well as a list of customers who placed orders.

In this tutorial, you will develop modules for the Web application. The Add Customer module will add a customer to the database. The View Orders module will display a list of customers who have placed orders, as well as an overview of each order.

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