Waking up from hibernation

admin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:01:41 +0000

After years of Systems Administration I have completely forgotten how much I used to like developing in Java. My current employer gave me that opportunity recently. So I took ownership and responsibility to de-hibernate myself (my Java knowledge became a bit rusty) and to start working on a project which separates the website’s business logic layer from the database layer. That becomes necessary as we want to re-design our infrastructure in a way that enables us to be as platform independent and as scalable as possible.

On the one hand, we are not even entirely sure if we’ll stick to MySQL or switch to any other DB server type, hence we must not use SQL dialect specific code within the application. On the other hand, we want to provide a SOAP endpoint internally, which allows us to access data from all sorts of applications and clearly separates the business logic of all sorts of clients from our actual data store.

In addition, caching of object structures which are mapped against data structures (or tables) would be very neat. Consequently, I suggested and started using Java with Hibernate and JAX-WS on a Glassfish Java Application Server. We might integrate an additional caching layer later. Terracotta is one of the candidates, which integrates seamlessly and can increase speed by factor 2 to 10.

After one week of researching, developing proofs of concept and presenting a first prototype, I am sooo excited about all that. I always loved Java, and again I remember why.

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