Elastic Grid

A lot of work has been put into the JiBX plugin for IntelliJ 8.x: This plugin now uses IntelliJ facets and automatically detects JiBX bindings. The navigation from the binding to the Java code has been improved. Error reporting is improved with hooks to precise locations of the errors in your bindings.

The OW2 Quarterly Meeting happened yesterday morning. We did our official introduction of Elastic Grid to the Technical Council and we can now announce Elastic Grid being part of the OW2 Community. We had been already working with some of its members and some of the OW2 projects for a while, like XWiki and eXo Portal, so this [...]

The slides of the BoF on Elastic Grid and EC2 are finally available! Thanks for all of you who could come. We had some interesting discussions and feedback after the talk. This is the first time I had a chance to go to JavaZone and I must say it’s been quite interesting. A few friends and I [...]

I have added a lot of code into the SVN repository in order to provide some experimental support for Amazon FPS. The current version (revision 186) supports most of the operations you need when you manipulate: single use tokens, recurring ... [More] tokens, post paid tokens, edit tokens. Basically the current API allow you to generate URL for the CBUI  pipelines, extract information [...] [Less]

I will be doing a talk like the one we did for JavaOne 08, except this time the demo will a bit shorten compared to the one we did at JavaOne. I will also demonstrate the Amazon FPS webapp we’ve been working on (more about this to come soon on this blog). Our talk How Can Amazon [...]

We are pleased to announce that Rio 4.0 M1 has been released and is available for download at http://www.rio-project.org and also on https://rio.dev.java.net This milestone release is significant, and provides important enhancements and bug fixes. ... [More] An overview of some of the enhancements follow: External Service executionThe Rio execution framework provides the ability to encapsulate the control and monitoring of [...] [Less]

Rio currently uses deployment descriptor files written in XML, which indicates the services you’d like to deploy, which cybernodes your service could run into, how you’d like to scale or relocate your services, etc. That XML format, although quite ... [More] extensible is also quite verbose, so a Domain Specific Language (DSL for short), means a lot of [...] [Less]

Most of the applications/frameworks/application servers usually rely on multicast in order to the discovery of other service instances. Unfortunately multicast does not work on Amazon EC2. For Elastic Grid, we decided to face this issue from the ... [More] beginning because we believe discovery of services is a key point in order to ease usage of Amazon EC2. [...] [Less]

Last friday I presented Elastic Grid to the local Java Open Source developers group called OSSGTP. The audience of this group usually is made of skilled Java developers working on many famous Java projects, such as Spring, Hibernate, XWiki, eXo ... [More] Portal, Restlet, jGuard, JCapthcha, etc (sorry, I probably forgot to cite many of them…). This talk [...] [Less]

The JiBX plugin for IntelliJ IDEA has been updated for both IDEA 7.x and the latest EAP release (future 8.x release). This update upgrades the embedded JiBX distribution to the latest release, that is version 1.1.6a.