Monday, April 16, 2012

My brand new blog on Java.net

As you might have guessed from the title, I've got a new blog on java.net. I asked them for a little space and they decided to host me on their portal! I'm so glad to be a member of this community. That doesn't mean I' m going to leave this blog. I'll keep on posting here so stay tuned....

Monday, April 9, 2012

Genesis of a "How to"

In my career I often dealt with RMI issues. To me RMI, Corba, and IIOP look much like "vintage" technology. There are more efficient technologies like RESTFul Web Services nevertheless Java EE still relies on such protocols. In many cases portability and interoperability between containers of different vendors it's just a glorified dream. Years ago I tried to set up a IIOP call in a network between two instances of GlassFish and it was a nightmare! I couldn't find any good book or tutorial or how to on this subject so I decided to write one. I'm going to post soon further details....

Friday, April 6, 2012

Open Source Community

Yesterday I read this post on Markus Eisele's blog and I found it very interesting. I completely agree with what he says: writing tutorials is the way I started getting involved in GlassFish community. To me is the opportunity to share ideas with people technically far stronger than me, I'm improving my skills and I'm helping an open source community!

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Alexis's new job

In this post Alexis confirmed my suspicions. Now he works for Google and I'm so happy for him. I don't like large companies, they have only one main goal: they want to rule the world. But, while other companies merely buy profitable patents, Google chose innovation as a key driver of business success and that's a huge difference....

Monday, April 2, 2012

A vibrant java Community

When I was getting my Oracle Certification, I often visited this forum. Coderanch is a must-go for whoever is getting a java professional certification and whoever need (right) answers. There I shared ideas and comments with users who gave me really good advices.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

JEE vs. Spring

Yesterday I found here an interesting article. I agree with most of the things Arun writes. It is impossible to generalize but, as a rule of thumb,  If today I had to choose between Spring (which is a container anyway) and a jee container, I'd go with the latter....

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Bye Alexis

Some days ago I read this post. I wrote to Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine saying I'm sorry for his resignation.This is a great loss for Oracle and Glassfish but I assume he's done the sensible thing. I can only imagine his reasons but I think that multinational companies sometimes kill spirit of enterprise.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Detailed SQL logging output with GlassFish and Hibernate

A few days ago I decided to join GlassFish community and I published a brief tutorial: "Detailed SQL logging output with GlassFish and Hibernate". You can take a look here.
The sample code is available for download here.

Monday, March 12, 2012

My first post

Hi everybody,
my name is Alessandro Gentile and I'm an information technology enthusiast. I love hardware overclocking and tweaking but lately I focused on software: Java Enterprise Edition. In this blog I'm going to share some news and reviews about software technologies from the open source world.