Latest News from Scott Quint

WebSphere App Server Feature Pack Open Beta Is Here

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:15:00 EST

IBM WebSphere started its Open Beta (Managed Betas are so 'last-year') for the WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for OSGi Applications and JPA 2.0 today. The Open Beta site is HERE. I'll list some of the highlights from the Beta site as a teaser. The implementations in this feature pack are based on the Apache Project offerings of OpenJPA (JPA 2.0) and Aries (OSGi) and demonstrate how IBM is committed to supporting open source software, the open source community, and open standards.

Java vs C++? Really?

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:00:00 EST

Every industry has head to head comparisons between popular products and they make great headlines but is the question really being explored? I say no. In fact, I think these comparisons are meant to throw meat to one side or the other and to stir the pot of controversy for one purpose: to sell copy (or get readers for free publications). I will spend some time exploring the question of selecting or using Java vs. C/C++.

Getting Started with OpenJPA

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:30:00 EST

If you have not been actively working with J2EE containers, open source or free databases, and obscure Java tools, then getting started with OpenJPA may prove to be more challenging than just learning the API. I am going to work through this from scratch and take you with me. OpenJPA is the open source implementation of the Java Persistence API (JPA).

External Cloud Providers Must Be More Than Hardware Pool Providers

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:15:00 EDT

Cloud computing provides more than scaling. It provides elasticity. That means it can expand needed enterprise software resources and contract those resources that are not needed and It can do all this on demand. On the surface, this looks like a great opportunity for new cloud services businesses to emerge. These providers would basically sell capacity to other businesses that would otherwise have to maintain enough IT to accommodate infrequent but significant spikes in usage traffic. These cloud computing vendors would be providing what is called an external cloud.