fnokd!

Just a reminder, in case anyone didn’t make the jump..
My Ruby/Rails/JBoss blogging is going on over at Odd Thesis these days.
That includes this announcement about the 1.0.0-Beta-2 release that just popped.

Just when I’ve trained my boss to read this blog to keep up with my status, I go and launch another blog, specifically for my workstuff.  In addition to blogs about JBoss things, it’ll include other documentation for building, installing and using the related projects.  The projects are grouped into constellations based around theses.  Hence [...]

On my path towards clustering a Rails app on JBoss on EC2, I stumbled across Bryan Kearney and the other Thincrust guys. With their help, I now have a JBoss AS5 + jboss-rails “appliance” ready to roll.
Grab the raw image or the VMWare image, and play along at home.
Fire up the image in your favorite [...]

JBoss on Rails will indeed cluster!
After modifying and dropping my jboss-rails.deployer into an ‘all’ configured server of JBoss AS 5, and firing up 3 instances on my localhost (non-trivial on OSX…):

10:43:28,409 INFO [RPCManagerImpl] Received new cluster view: [127.0.0.10:63740|2] [127.0.0.10:63740, 127.0.0.11:63747, 127.0.0.12:63749]
10:43:28,435 INFO [RPCManagerImpl] Cache local address is 127.0.0.12:63749
10:43:28,469 INFO [ComponentRegistry] JBoss Cache [...]

Since JBoss AS 5 is built on top of Microcontainer, it’s effectively a network of beans just doing their respective jobs.  You have already probably noticed that it ships with 3 included configurations: minimal, default, and all.
Unfortunately, they’re awefully far apart along the spectrum of configuration options.  The minimal configuration barely gets the container running, [...]

Tomorrow is my first real status update call with my boss, Sacha Labourey.  I’ve been anxious to deliver something, to prove I hadn’t gone completely pudding-brained during my tenure as management.
This morning, it all finally came together in a pleasing fashion, causing me to hoot and holler loud enough to scare the cats and probably [...]