Archive for 2008

HOWTO: Running Weblogic Server 9.2 on Mac OS X

December 11, 2008 11:43 AM

Being the Apple-lovin Mac user that I am, I prefer to run everything that I can natively on a Mac, as it is always faster and usually has a smaller memory footprint than running it in a Windows VM. This is espeically critical for software development as being able to work efficiently is import to finishing on time and not getting frustrated. To this end I have quested for the ability to run Weblogic 9.2 on the Mac and have it integrated with Eclipse WTP. In my search, I found many tidbits that helped me along the way, but not a full tutorial on how to do it.

posted by Matt Campbell

Refactoring with Spring - Spring Security

November 20, 2008 9:13 AM

I have been doing a lot of thinking about Spring lately, and given that Rod is back in my good graces, I wanted to do a few posts on ways spring has made my life easier. In this first post, I’m going to talk about Spring Security, specifically using it to bring a consistent security model to a legacy web app with “home grown” security.

posted by Matt Campbell

Reaction to the Spring Source Maintenance Policy

November 6, 2008 10:17 AM

I love Spring Framework and I use it in almost every java application I write, big or small. However, my mirth over spring was greatly dampened when they announced their new maintenance policy a few weeks ago. I was horrified that they would stop maintenance on the current community version of spring after 3 months! As a consultant, this was going to have the potential to spell the end of my use of spring in many of my client projects as I doubt I was going to get them to shell out the cash for support from another vendor. Plus in most cases, spring doesn’t provide direct visible benefit to my clients. The benefit of using spring is enablement of testable code through dependency injection and not have to reinvent the wheel on all that boiler plate code for JNDI, JMS, Hibernate, JDBC, Web Services, the list goes on and on.

posted by Matt Campbell

Content Modeling VS. Relational Modeling

October 2, 2008 4:36 PM

I just finished a WCM project for a client using Day Software’s Communique. This project was relatively small, but large enough to get the full design experience which has sparked a lot of thought about the differences between Entity-Relationship modeling (such as with a traditional RDBMS) and Content modeling (such as with JCR or a WCMS such as Communique).

posted by Matt Campbell

SpringSource, JBoss and the Modular Application Server

July 25, 2008 2:50 AM

I read Rod Johnson’s post on Oracle raising the price of Weblogic a few weeks ago and have been thinking a lot about his recent comments about the SpringSource Application Platform and his predictions for the future of JEE. The impression I have gotten is that Rod thinks the JEE Application Server is dying. Perhaps I am naive in disagreeing, but I just don’t see it. I would agree that the Spring + Hibernate + Tomcat + Web Framework of the Month stack that is very popular meets the need in many cases, but there are instances where a full container is going to fit the bill much better.

posted by Matt Campbell

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