Maiden Flight with a Hornet

after ActiveMQ let us down the third time (rant to follow), it was time for alternatives. as i am a strong believer in OSS and the budget is tight these days, i´d love to stay in that ballpark instead of just buying SonicMQ. so looking for alternatives i came across the recent announcement of HornetQ [...]

“Faster” Serialization

as i´m gonna be involved in building a System that has some significantly complex aggregated Data Objects to serialize frequently, i came across http://jboss.org/serialization/. this one actually promises some kind of performance gain over plain java serialization … Recently we discovered that most of the problems in JavaSerialization are related to static synchronized caching, what [...]