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Friday, November 28, 2003

g'day.

So this is what a BLOG looks like from the inside huh ....

I'm sitting here in my office in the little old city of Adelaide, South Australia, mucking around with my new Dell GX270. I just installed Red Hat Enterprise Server 3.0 on it, and I can honestly say it was a sheer delight. The GX270 has the latest Intel video card on it, so getting earlier versions of RH, and even the beta of RH ES 3.0 to work was somewhat of a nightmare. After a few rounds of experimentation (and now what seems like days of work) I was finally able to get a screen res of a whopping 640x480 with 16 colors.

But I was stoked to find that RH ES 3.0 just picked up my graphics card, my spanking cool 18" flat screen monitor and configured a screen res of 1280x1024 with 24bit color RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX!. Just the ticket and makes the upgrade certainly worth the effort, as little as it was.

But why I hear you asking, why are you installing RH ES 3.0?

Well the news my friends, is that the production release of the product I work on, Oracle Application Server (9.0.4) will be certified on RH ES 3.0 when it is released. So I thought I'd take it for a spin and kick the tires so to speak.

After pulling down our close to final shiphome area, I ran the installer and layed down the J2EE + Web Cache installation type. Now I know that this might surprise some of you out there in radio land -- much like I was so pleasantly surprised by my RH ES 3.0 experience -- but the install just went in and worked .... well I had to apply a few extra RPMs, and tweak one of our config file files to alter a misconfigured pre-check setting (which I logged as a bug) but Bingo!Bango! it is all installed and running.

And running pretty swiftly I must say, the page loads for the management console (now called "Application Server Control") are like night and day versus night compared to the previous release. It's now usable. My distribution of fancy has always been the oc4j_extended.zip, since it was trivial to install and is quite easy to configure and deploy applications to, via manual modifications of config files. From what I've seen so far of the 904 release, I will certainly be using more of the OracleAS J2EE + Web Cache install. The management via the browser GUI is no longer a burden, and is actually very productive.

Some of the local blokes I share the office have been going full bore with the product since I've been giving them access to some builds from our dev servers. We have our own little cluster setup in the office here on whatever laptops we could scrounge up and get installed with Linux. Our cluster and network has adopted somewhat of a Seinfeld personality at the moment -- we have a cast of nodes in our cluster which include a jerry, george, kramer, elaine, newman, banya, etc.

I'll post some more details of what we've been able to do with our Seinfeld crew next time I feel a blog coming along.

As those champions of Australian comedy, HG Nelson and Rampaging Roy Slaven like to say --

Bye Now!


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3/16/2004 Ant deployment to OC4J
3/15/2004 Getting OC4J Admin Console to work in OC4J 9.0.4
2/27/2004 Simple JSR88 Java Client Example
2/27/2004 JSR88 Client Example
2/18/2004 An Adventure with Adventure Builder and getParameterMap
2/16/2004 Running OC4J with MX4J
2/12/2004 JMX Support in OC4J 10.0.3
2/12/2004 Configuring MBeans with OC4J

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