Amazon announced three new features today that are mentioned below:
1. Elastic Load Balancing: Serves as a load balancer for distributing incoming traffic across EC2 instances and additionally increases the capacity (i.e. adds new instances) in response to incoming traffic. The load balancing of incoming traffic is done across EC2 instances in a single availability zone [...]
SpringSource, maker of the popular Spring framework, acquired Hyperic today. With this acquisition SpringSource completes the “Manage” phase in a typical application life cycle.
The Build Phase
SpringSource offers Spring framework that is widely used in building enterprise Java/JEE applications.
The Run Phase
SpringSource also contributes most of the bug fixes to Apache Tomcat meaning, it has a major [...]
Oracle announced today of acquiring Sun Microsystems for a total price of $7.4 billion. This transaction has long lasting and possibly game changing impact on several market segments in the IT industry. My analysis per market segment is listed below.
Open Source segment focusing on Java and MySql Database
By acquiring Sun, Oracle is probably the largest [...]
Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun’s cash and debt.
“We expect this acquisition to be accretive [...]
Embarcadero Technologies, the maker of popular database modeling toolset and Integrated Development Environments such as JBuilder, J Optimizer and ERStudio among others, offers many of its products online called All-Access. A complete list of products offered in All-Access is listed below:
A. Design and Architecture
1. ER/Studio - A Data modeling tool for designing and understanding your [...]
Writing applications using Java on Google App Engine provides portability than when developed using Python. While Google App Engine (GAE) uses Google’s magic infrastructure, however, limits the portability if the application uses the Bigtable data store. In Java this tight coupling to the Bigtable data store can be alleviated by making your application use JDO [...]
1. Cannot write to the filesystem. Must use Data Store for persistence.
2. Cannot open a socket or access another host directly.
3. Cannot spawn a sub-process or thread.
4. Cannot make other kinds of system calls.
5. Cannot create a new java.lang.ThreadGroup nor a new java.lang.Thread. However, operations against the current thread, such as Thread.currentThread().dumpStack() is allowed.
6. The [...]