A New Version of Java
On the day that Sun release Java 5.0 the project I am working on moves to Java 1.4.2_5 and Iona Orbix 6.1.
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On the day that Sun release Java 5.0 the project I am working on moves to Java 1.4.2_5 and Iona Orbix 6.1.
I'm code complete for the three Java CORBA servers I've re-architected over the last three months. I now just need to re-run the last performance tests, and fine tune the JVM options. Since I'm forced to run on the Solaris JVM 1.3.1_09 I initially started using this AWK script (later migrating to Perl) to take the -verbose:gc output and graph the results in Excel. JVM options currently being used:
Late last week I was asked to look at BerkleyDB for possible use within one of our servers (JBossCache also make used of BerkeyDB). Certain team members thought that BerkleyDB might be a better fit that using Oracle. I've never used Berkley DB, but having done a few google searchs , and reading this article, BerkeyDB could be an interesting replacement for Oracle in our servers that needs a high performance transactional storage engine.
After weeks of waiting, my machine has been setup for ClearCase, and I've got access to the projects ClearCase VOB (ClearCase version 4.2). I've never used ClearCase before, so checking in the last 2 months worth of work was interesting and slightly different to CVS. Supposedly if you can afford ClearCase, it is the best source control system available.
I never remember how to check out the execution plans on Oracle, so this time I thought I'd blog the answer. Basically, you run the following: