Would you like to know how JRuby, NetBeans, GlassFish, and MySQL can power your Rails applications ?
This informative technical webinar explains the
fundamentals of JRuby and how the NetBeans IDE makes
developing/debugging/deploying Rails applications on GlassFish
quick, fun and cost-effective.
The webinar starts 10am PT on Jan 27th, 2009 and can be accessed
from a browser.
Register here.
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Jan
27
2009
Jan
20
2009
In the last few months Sun has expanded significantly our online outreach efforts and we currently have (at least :-)) three Webinar series that cover the GlassFish products. Going through them:
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The MySQL webinars are polished presentations that are broadcasted in high-quality and targeted at specific busines needs. Future presentations include Binod on MySQL and SailFin and Arun on … |
Jan
14
2009
Microsoft released Windows 7 Beta 1 - the next major version of
Vista, download here. There are tons of improvments mostly centered around making
the content easily & intuitively accessible. But hey, Mac OSX
already serves that purpose well for quite some time ;-)
But I still want to make sure that our Rails stack (NetBeans,
GlassFish, and MySQL) work fine on it. And it very well do,
without any issues, as you'll realize at the end of this blog
:)
Lets first get started with installing Windows 7 Beta as a
Virtual Box
image. Few points to note here:
- Only IE can be used for downloading …
Jan
13
2009
Here is a blog entry that was sitting in my Drafts folder for a
long time (just because I didn't realize :). Anyway, it shows how
to install Open
Solaris 2008/11 on Virtual Box. The original install was done using
Virtual Box 2.0.6. I installed Virtual Box 2.1 this morning and
the image was easily recognized by the updated Virtual Box.
Here are the basic steps.
Create a new VM ...
As part of the previous step, create a new Virtual Disk mapping
to the downloaded Open Solaris image ...
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Dec
01
2008
A compilation of news of interest:
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JSF 2.0 went into Public Review Draft and Jim has posted more entries in his series showing how to take advantage of the new functionality. In the first one, he describes how to write an AJAX-aware Editable Text Component - sources are here. The second is a SwitchList - sources for … |
Sep
30
2008
A compilation of today's news of interest:
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From Ruby-land, Zargony is warming up to JRbuy and explains Why I'm starting to like JRuby even though I dislike Java. And Arun writes a short list of the Advantages of JRuby over MRI. We have been sending notifications to GAP (the GlassFish Awards Program) for a while but on MOnday we had a … |
Sep
16
2008
Last week Kenai went beta, with the usual services in a development hub site plus an additional "connected" angle. Our GF CORBA project is already using its Hg repository but another very interesting angle is the technology mix.
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Kenai acheived development agility with reliability by using a combination of our scripting (JRuby/Rails) and enterprise (GlassFish v2, MySQL, OpenSolaris) technologies. These combinations are beginning to pop all over and are one of the key targets of … |
Sep
09
2008
TOTD #9 explained how to configure JDBC
connection pooling for Rails application deployed on GlassFish v2. There are several
benefits of using using the JDBC connection pools:
- No need to create a new database connection for each Rails instance.
- No need to specify your password in database.yml or create a hack to hide it.
- No garbage collection of connection after each use.
And because of the above mentioned (and other reasons) an
improved application performance, scalability and
efficiency.
The only way to deploy a Rails application on GlassFish v2
is to create a WAR file using …
Sep
06
2008
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The vast majority of Tomcat applications ran fin on GlassFish. Jan tell us that now even the ones using the Tomcat-style valves will run unmodified. Of at The ServerSide Pawan explains How to use OpenMQ with Mule ESB by configuring the Mule JMS connector. Added (by pelegri) - I've heard of a number of requests for this, please let us know if you use the combination so we can track OpenMQ adoption. … |
Sep
03
2008
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Dick has a detailed post on "LAMP stack on GlassFish" which really focused on Caucho's Quercus PHP runtime inside GlassFish to execute Wordpress (with MySQL as the back-end obviously). The post provides database setup details and prefers standalone WAR files (carying along Quercus). Sébastien focuses on Joomla on GlassFish but prefers the PHP/JavaBridge … |