Cameron Purdy is Vice President of Development at Oracle. He has over 16 years of experience growing software companies and leading product development efforts. Formerly he was Co-Founder & President of Tangosol, a startup company that specialized in enterprise Java component development software. A software visionary and an active member of the software community, he is a contributor to the Java and XML specifications, is co-author of a component-based development patent with Dr. Gleyzer.
When it comes to promoting an opinion, an open source project, a software
product or even a company, what constitutes crossing the line? Recently, on
other message boards, JBoss Inc. employees were shown to have used multiple
fake online personas to not only simulate community support for JBoss, but to
denigrate competitors and even to attack individuals that criticized JBoss in
public. The JDJ Readers' Choice Awards has become an annual ballot-stuffing
initiative for many of the industry's leading vendors. On JRoller and other
Java blogs, anonymous posters and fake personas push hidden agendas and hurl
insults against competing interests with impunity. The line between what
constitutes conventional marketing and market manipulation has been blurred,
and the loser in all of this is you.
This is not professional or ethical behavior. It hurts the industry's
credibili... (more)
WebSphere provides a number of out-of-the-box session management options,
including a new in-memory replication option in WebSphere 5. Successful use
of session management requires some engineering foresight, and optimal use of
session management requires an understanding of the options that WebSphere
provides.
On the engineering side, the rules for successful session management are
simple: Make sure that all attributes that are put into a session are
serializable. This allows you to later use distributed sessions if necessary
for scalability or failover reasons. If you get a mu... (more)
Cameron Purdy is Vice President of Development at Oracle. He has over 16 years of experience growing software companies and leading product development efforts. Formerly he was Co-Founder & President of Tangosol, a startup company that specialized in enterprise Java component development software. A software visionary and an active member of the software community, he is a contributor to the Java and XML specifications, is co-author of a component-based development patent with Dr. Gleyzer.
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