Arjan Tijms' Weblog

In a previous blog post I wrote about JEUS, a Java EE 7 certified application server that is popular in Korea but pretty much unknown elsewhere. In this follow up I'll report about the latest findings and take a look at how to deploy an application to JEUS and do some debugging. The previous installment was quite a story, but there's more. The us domain that was previously just gone briefly flickered into existence again, and it indeed offered the much sought after JEUS 7 download link; jeus70_linux_x86.bin . In order to get this I once again had to register a new account, and this time the signup process limited my password to 12 characters and did not allow capitals and non-alphanumerics (the 4 other signup processes that I went through did allow this). Unfortunately after a few hours the site suddenly featured completely different content. It's now largely, but not entirely, identical to the main corporate site , and doesn't feature the JEUS 7 download link anym...

For some time now I'm keeping a page at ZEEF.com about Java EE 7 . The page covers pretty much all Java EE 7 technologies, so the amount of clicks on the links of this page may give some indication of what parts of Java EE 7 are most popular with users. At the moment of writing the top 20 list for the last 8 weeks looks as follows: Position Link Category 1 Beginning Java EE 7 by Antonio Goncalves Java EE 7 overal 2 The Java EE 7 Tutorial Java EE 7 overal 3 Java EE 7 Essentials by Arun Gupta Java EE 7 overal 4 Java EE 7 code samples Java EE 7 overal 5 What's New in JAX-RS 2.0? (2) JAX-RS 2.0 6 Java EE 7: And Then What? Java EE 7 overal 7 JSF 2.2 new features in context [slides] JSF 2.2 8 CDI 1.1 available :-) CDI 1.1 9 Java EE 7 support in Eclipse 4.3 Java EE 7 overal 10 JSF 2.2: HTML5 friendly markup JSF 2.2 11 A closer look at the JSF 2.2 View Actio...

There are quite a number of Java EE implementations. At the open source front JBoss, GlassFish and increasingly TomEE are very well known. On the commercial side there's WebLogic, WebSphere and increasingly Liberty that are rather well known as well. A couple of implementations are somewhat less known such as Resin and Geronimo/WASCE, but you'd expect many advanced Java EE developers to have heard of those. Yet another implementation is JOnAS, which arguably is much less known. Then however, there are also the truly obscure (in the sense of not widely known) ones such as TMax JEUS, Fujitsu Interstage Application Server, Hitachi uCosminexus Application Server and NEC WebOTX Application Server. These seem to be virtually unknown among general Java EE users. The only way I found out that these servers even existed was because of them being mentioned on Oracle's Java EE compatibility page . The most famous of these unknown servers is JEUS; every ~3 years it makes it in...

In a previous article about JASPIC we saw that not all servers behaved the same. In fact there were rather large differences between implementations with respect to JASPIC. From time to time new servers come out, e.g. since the last article JBoss has released JBoss EAP 6.1, Oracle has released GlassFish 4 and WebLogic 12.1.2 and even Geronimo has released a new version of its server; Geronimo 3.0.1. I previously tested via a series of handcrafted web applications that I would deploy manually, do some tests with it and then observe its behavior. This initially worked fine, but it's a bit laborious and perhaps even brittle to retest again some time later. It also makes it harder for others to verify the tests. So automation was the key, but how to automatically deploy several wars to a variety of application servers? There are a couple of options for starting & stopping a Java EE application server, plus deploying and undeploying an archive (web, ear, ...) to it: JSR-88 ...

Java EE 7 has been recently released and is a truly great release. While for most vendors the job to implement Java EE 7 has just started or may even still has to start ideas for the next version, Java EE 8, may already be shaping. If history is anything to go by; last time Java EE 6 was released Dec 10, 2009 and we saw the first real Java EE 7 events about a year later , so we may have some time till Java EE 8 is really kicking off. Around the Java EE 7 kickoff time, Antonio Goncalves, presented a very interesting wish list of things that should be in Java EE 7. Interestingly 2 of his 4 items (flows and batch) indeed made it in Java EE 7, while a 3rd item (caching) would have been included but was dropped at the very last moment. It's a bit early days, but in this article I'd like to present my wish list for Java EE 8: CDI everywhere More thorough Pruning & Deprecating A standardized caching API In-app alternatives for all "administrative objects...