Unfortunate events surrounding the DDoS attack against BitBucket kicked-off heated discussions about the nature of this vulnerability. Where Amazon officially acknowledged this to be a single isolated incident, many others started asking questions why did it happen in first place?
– Was BitBucket’s security group configuration set to block UDP traffic?
– How come they [...]
If you play with fire, you’ll get burned. Exactly same happened to me in the post Cloud Perspectives, in which I had wandered off my usual comfort zones and with proper amount of clumsiness stumbled upon the topic I haven’t been able to describe properly. As it was too late to delete it, I am [...]
In his latest blog post, Roman Stanek contemplated about the disruptive effect of cloud computing. We already experienced its power in relation to the boom of social networking and as he notes it is undoubtedly going to disrupt the business model behind commercial software. Now, Roman asks how it will affect the open source movement?
For me the [...]
Yesterday afternoon, while relaxing in the garden I’ve suddenly realized why – in my mind – there was always a bit of hesitation to brand some of the emerging offerings as a true Cloud Computing. Amazon EC2 has always ticked the box. Why not the other providers? I knew the answer is going to be [...]
Following the rocket like boom of the cloud computing by the end of 2007, countless questions have been asked about security aspect of such a solutions. For many businesses this concern may overshadow other benefits – like agility, cost effectivity or scalability. This post is my reflection on true considerations one should take into account [...]
With the JBoss JAX-RS implementation RESTEasy reaching version 1.0.1.GA I have finally managed to switch over from Jersey. Because my latest project has got all internal services and framework components represented as a JBossMC beans I needed a simple way how to export them directly as Restful resources without requiring any unnecessary boiler plate [...]
Building the services using JBoss Microcontainer isn’t complicated at all; create necessary classes and wire them together using XML descriptor or couple of annotations. But unless you’re building just a very simple components, you might want to be able to hide the implementation and expose only the special interface (public) beans to the outside [...]
UPDATE 28-05-2009 – Release of JBoss AS 5.1 has made this blog post obsolete and because I don’t longer feel any urgency nor think that is appropriate to comment on RedHat release or quality control process I’ve decided to retract the text.
Having spent some time this week resolving problems with Subversion repository due to poor network performance I’d like to intensify my efforts towards Mercurial (Hg). In this blog post not just the application itself, but rather introduce hosting capabilities and one of the projects from it’s biosphere.
No matter how decentralized version system might be, hosting [...]
JBoss Seam provides excellent support for mapping of the managed entities back and forth between the select items and the actual entities. Tag s:convertEntity supplies JSF converter which renders option values and consequently translate them back, using Entity Loader (either Hibernate Session or EntityManager), to the appropriate entity. Whole process relies on the provision of [...]
