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{Feb 19, 2002, Rich Katz, Java Skyline} "If I had just one wish," Steve Martin once said, "I would wish that all the children of the world would get together and hold hands in peace." Then he went on to add a wish for a million dollars and the "hold hands in peace" and then three and so on.
Somewhere high on my list would be that Gemstone and JBoss would get together. And they have.
Gemstone has always made outstanding products. Their products combine high security - and we need things like that these days, with high performance, and features that can be important in rigid requirement settings like object trackability. JBoss is a great world wide effort. JBoss is a modular JMX-based server that combines EJB, a JSP/Servlet platform (Tomcat or Jetty), and easily provides realtime services - such as Gemstone.
Both companies "think different" to re-coin a Steve Jobsism. Both have had a strong focus on system management and combinging services. Combining JBoss with Gemstone is a natural.
Gemstone is very experienced at server technology. Gemstone began making servers long before there were EJBs - in fact before there was Java. In the Java world, a credit to their ingenuity, Gemstone quckly established itself as a leading server vendor with a solid reputation and a number of major clients. As the market headed into the into the J2EE era Gemstone was purchased by Brokat. Brokat then spun Gemstone back off as a separate company. Gemstone then evolved their product again an application server into the premier transactional Object Relational Mapping and distributed caching tool that Facets is today.
The JBoss project took Sun's JMX concept a few steps further than Sun had envisioned, using it to construct JBoss as a highly modular server. Using JMX, JBoss readily combines and accomodate add-on features, so adding in a product like Gemstone Facets can be achieved relatively easily. Note that in a separate announcement JBoss has additionally integrated ObjectFrontier's FrontierSuite as well.
To download, just go to Gemstone's JBoss page and click on download. You'll need a copy of JBoss of course also - version 2.4.3 which you can get from JBoss.org. Be sure and take a close look at the Gemstone installation instructions.
Gemstone Downloads
. Gemstone Facets 1.1 for JBoss
- 26 Meg ZIP
. QuickStart for Gemstone Facets (PDF)
. Gemstone
Installation Guide for Windows NT (PDF)
. Gemstone
Programming Guide (PDF)
JBoss Downloads
. JBoss 2.4.3
Announcements
Feb 19 GemStone and JBoss partner to provide performance boost to leading open source application server (PR Newswire/Yahoo)
Feb 19 JBoss offers distributed caching mechanism with integration of FrontierSuite from ObjectFrontier (JIC)