April 20th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in java, oracle
Oracle is probably the biggest user of the java applet technology. Oracle Forms runs as an Applet in the browser. Now, Oracle Forms isn’t the hippest tool ever, people have been expecting it to die for a couple of years. But it’s still around. Mainly because Oracle still uses Forms in their Oracle E-Business Suite.
Recently, [...]
April 20th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in java, oracle, oss
So Oracle just bought Sun. At first look it might seem like closed source versus open source. Most of Oracle’s well known products are closed source, whereas most of Sun’s products are open source. But that’s not the full story. Oracle is also involved in Open Source. It just takes a different approach.
There are a [...]
April 20th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, soa
I just uploaded the slides of our JSpring presentation to slideshare: “REST, het internet als database“.
Like most of my presentations, there’s not much text on the slides, so i’ll summarize here:
We start with one slide of JAX-RS code, just to mention that we’re not going to talk about code.
Next, we mention Stefan Tilkovs summary of [...]
April 8th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in java
Google just announced that their AppEngine will support Java. The good new: AppEngine is going to use a fairly regular JVM, with some functionality disabled like sockets and file writing. It should support other languages that compile to bytecode, like Scala or JRuby. No mention of Groovy, but i hope that’ll work soon too. Update: [...]
April 6th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, soa
Just read Web 2.0 Expo: the end of the online search driven era?. The article argues that LinkedData, aka the Semantic Web, aka Web 3.0, might be a threat to Googles dominating position.
I was actually thinking the opposite. To me, Web 2.0 and SOA seem a bigger issue for Google. Web 2.0 interfaces are mostly [...]
April 6th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in oracle, oss, software development
Interesting discussion on friendfeeds new database usage: How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data. It’s basically a key-value database implemented on top of mysql, to get around schema-change and index performance problems in mysql.
There is a lot of activity around non-RDBMS databases recently. Although it’s always interesting to see new development and innovation, [...]
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