If you are like me and have seen a ton of languages out there provide web services with a few simple instructions (Perl / PHP / Python), you may have the impression that it should be pretty easy in Java? Couple of lines of code and voila a server. A few more lines and voila a client that consumes said service. Unfortunately that does not seem to be the case in my experience. WDSL setup this…wimport that (but only with JDK’s greater than 1.6_05..).
Here is a dead simple way to setup clients and services in a few steps.
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I had small issue recently in that the Netbeans 6.7 database explorer was timing out just trying to connect to my production database. Apparently the Mysql server needs to respond back within a few mili-seconds and there are no configuration settings in Netbeans to increase this timeout. Our production database has an initial lag time when you first connect, but it is pretty zippy thereafter (I suspect my cheap home based switches or my Windows computer).
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Great article from a great blog today:
Oracle’s purchase of Sun went on hold while the DoJ continues its review. Last Friday, Daniel Wall, a lawyer at Latham & Watkin representing Oracle, said that “we were almost able to resolve everything before the Second Request deadline. All that’s left is one narrow issue about the way rights to Java are licensed that is never going to get in the way of the deal.” So, what does Oracle owning Java mean to technology companies? The answer depends on if your perspective.theCTO, The CTO’s blog, Jul 2009
There are a lot of questions that I’m sure developers world-wide are asking:
What happens to MySQL?
What happens to GlassFish?
What happens to Netbeans?
