Jboss

What and why I am always sad seeing all the potential damage done to your local system, just to set up your development environment. Every time you do almost the same thing, every time you mess your system up in almost the same way. It really doesn’t matter in which language you’re wrtiting and what frameworks you use but Java (and Maven) is a pretty good, uhm, example. A development environment is not only about IDE and JDK, in almost all cases we need to have an application server too. We set it up; our application works great on it, but when we deploy it to production we experience deployment issues. Some things changed: we have different JDK, different network interfaces and so on. Everything can affect your application. ...

In my previous blog post I introduced Docker and its Fedora integration. Now it’s time to do some serious (read: useful) stuff. A few years ago I started a project called CirrAS. It’s dead now, but the main idea behind it was to form a cluster of JBoss AS servers in the cloud, without any unnecessary steps. You just launched the instances, they found and connected to each other and the result was a working cluster. Additionally every cluster node registered itself in a front-end instance which worked as a load balancer and monitoring/management (we used RHQ) node. ...

I haven’t been giving talks lately. There were various reasons for it; but the most important is that I was busy with the Fedora/JBoss AS stuff for quite some time. The good (?) news is that I’m back to real programming. Since a couple of months I’m helping with TorqueBox, expecially in the messaging space. This is a great opportunity to share this cool stuff with people. I’ve decided to submit my first ever talk to GeeCON and it was accepted, yay! I know the conference pretty well and I enjoy it every time I’m attending. This is also true to the OpenSpaces co-event which is held the day after the main conference (this year it’s 18th May). For more information about the conference please reach out to the conference page. ...