
For a long time Matthew and I had a dilemma about changing the non-standard access log format used by GlassFish v2 and v3, to the commonly used common or combined format used by Apache.GlassFish does allow one to specify the access log format, but how ...
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Even though Atlassian considers GlassFish to be an unsupported servlet container for Confluence, it is quite easy to use Confluence with GlassFish v2.1. In fact that's the container that I've been using for a long time during my Confluence and Confluen...
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Yesterday I tried to find a regression bug in Grizzly that was preventing grizzly-sendfile from using blocking IO. I knew that the bug was not present in grizzly 1.9.15, but somewhere between that release and the current head someone introduced a chang...
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After a chat with JFA about grizzly-sendfile's future, I'm pleased to announce today that grizzly-sendfile 0.4 will be the first version of grizzly-sendfile released as an official module of grizzly. This is a huge news for grizzly-sendfile and I belie...
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After a few months of late night hacking, grizzly-sendfile 0.3 is finally ready for prime time!New features include:grizzly 1.9.15 compatibilityglassfish v3b48 compatibility (via an OSGi bundle)kick-ass performance and scalabilitygrizzly-sendfile-serve...
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From the very early beginnings of my work on grizzly-sendfile (intro) I was curious to compare blocking and non-blocking IO side to side. Since I didn't have any practical experience to understand which one would be more suitable when, I designed grizz...
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A few weeks ago wikis.sun.com powered by Confluence "Enterprise" Wiki grew beyond yet another invisible line that triggered intermittent instabilities. Oh boy, how I love these moments. This time the issue was that Confluence just kept on running out o...
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It's my pleasure to finally announce grizzly-sendfile v0.2 - the first stable version of a project that I started after I got one of those "Sudden Burst of Ideas" last summer.For people who follow the grizzly development or mediacast.sun.com, this is n...
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Last night, while working on a project I found a really neat use of Rails Components, but I also noticed that this part of Rails is deprecated, among other reasons because it's slow.Well, how slow? During my quest to find out, I collected some interest...
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Tags: JRuby, rails, ruby, Software Engineering
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A few days ago I got a new MacBook Pro. While waiting for it to be delivered, I started thinking about how I want to layout the installation of the OS. For a long long time I wanted to try to use ZFS file system on Mac and this looked like a wonderful ...
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