A challenging solution needed

Some years ago I was presented to a project that needed a solution. No news at this point, that is the reality of any IT professional on daily basis. But then they started talking about the requirements… well, let me show them: They had a web-based system running in that classical way: a new company pay … Read more

Using Docker to deal with a TomEE missing feature

When I and Bruno Souza were writing the article “Step-by-Step High Availability with Docker and Java EE” we faced a little issue with an Apache TomEE cluster feature: the “hot” deployment thru the cluster nodes isn’t still available, although the configuration at the server.xml is already defined: <Deployer className=”org.apache.catalina.ha.deploy.FarmWarDeployer” deployDir=”/tmp/war-deploy/” tempDir=”/tmp/war-temp/” watchDir=”/tmp/war-listen/” watchEnabled=”true”/> The point is: if you deploy a new version … Read more