Drools is an enhanced Rules Engine implementation based on the ReteOO algorithm, an algorithm adapted from the one originally devised by Charles Forgy. Drools has become quite popular due to performance characteristics and it’s natural language semantic
Stripes is a presentation framework for building web applications using the latest Java technologies. The main driver behind Stripes is that web application development in Java is just too much work! It seems like every existing framework requires gobs of
This is a simple example of how to use messaging, implemented in JMS [JMS]. It shows how to implement Request-Reply, where a requestor application sends a request, a replier application receives the request and returns a reply, and the requestor receives
Apache ActiveMQ is a fast open source JMS 1.1 Message Fabric which supports clustering, peer networks, discovery, TCP, SSL, multicast, persistence, XA and integrates seamlessly into J2EE 1.4 containers, light weight containers and any Java Virtual Machine
With all the recent hubbub about GlassFish, I decided to do a quick performance test this morning. I downloaded all the most recent versions of the various open source application servers, deployed AppFuse 1.9.3 (Struts version) on them, and ran "ant test