Well it seems the children of the web/spam are exercising their toys against the Oracle blog site. There were some pretty sick trackback links people were trying to post and I cana??t keep up with deleting them one by one. I really had no choice but to just disable trackbacks for a while. Maybe at some point in the future I can re-enable the feature. Hopefully the current batch of children have a short attention span.
Be a good netizen!
I used to spend lots of time looking over the specs published at http://www.sharkeyextreme.com for gaming PCs to dream about my desired workstation. Over time I got busy and that effort fell by the wayside. Now it seems that I am dreaming about a new server. It seems I am always exceeding the capabilities of my laptop and need some extra horsepower. Fortunately I can build a pretty powerful box for a relatively modest sum of money. (Well, modest to what I see vendors selling servers for!) I thought I would share with others what I would do today if I were building a server.
My server needs are pretty intense as I want to be able to host a complete enterprise POC environment. That means I need to run a database, several application servers, security and identity management, web servers, and of course a source code control system. I will also occasionally need to run applications like Siebel CRM to test out integration. Running all this is really not practical on a single piece of hardware. Buying multiple boxes is an option but it takes more space and can be a bit of a pain. So I am going to take advantage of virtual machine technology. I want to use Oracle VM but I cana??t ignore how many people run VMWare. Since this is *my* box, my choice of VM technology is still undecided.
Fortunately the components to build a dual quad core system are fairly available to purchase. In fact, I was able to get all of the components for this build from http://www.newegg.com. They are a great company to buy from although you can shop around for better prices on some components. Their great customer service though is hard to replace.
Below you will find a list of the components I would use to build a server today. Comments and suggestions are welcome and part of why I posted this in the first place!
Just wanted to post a note about using Eclipse 3.2.2 for a IDE platform with the Oracle Workshop for Weblogic 10.3 and Adobe Flex Builder 3 plug-ins installed. Long story short, it seems to work just fine.
I have been doing a bit of WebLogic work lately to keep up with the Oracle SOA roadmap. Part of that work includes some code development. Long term this work will be done in JDeveloper, but for now must be done in workbench. Workbench for WebLogic 10.3 runs on the Eclipse platform either as a simple install or via a plug-in to an existing Eclipse install.
I decided to use the Eclipse plug-in installation since it would allow me to also have my Adobe Flex Builder 3 run in the same eclipse instance. This is a real nice capability for me. I use the Flex Builder plug-in to build by RIA application and then elements of the workbench plug-in to write the data side of the application. Lately on the data side I have been using WebLogic web services to provide data to Flex remote objects via BlazeDS. I am trying to decide if I want to use remote objects for all of Flex data sources or just for the "data pusha?? parts. Currently I am not sure if that is easier than using direct web service calls where the biggest pain is getting the namespaces handled correctly.
From the workbench plug-in perspective the install was only slightly painful. I used the network installer with a freshly installed Eclipse 3.2.2 IDE for Java EE Developers. When I tried the install I ran into a bunch of pre-requisites that I did not see in the installation documentation. All of those pre-requisites stem from requiring the WTP 2.0.3 feature to be installed in Eclipse. Fortunately the web page for the WTP 2.0.3 release has details and links for everything you need.
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