Thomas Smits has a degree in business administration and economics with a focus on business informationtechnology. His first contact with Java was 8 years ago. Since then, he's been eating, sleeping, and drinking Java. He did development projects for German Rail (Die Bahn), Brenntag, and other companies. Thomas authored a course on Java Web technology for Sun Microsystems and has done a lot of customer-specific training on Java. Since 2002 he is a development architect in the SAP NetWeaver team.
Developers using Java on clients or in small projects may not believe that
there is a fundamental problem with Java's robustness. People working with
huge applications and application servers written in Java know about the
problem but may doubt that it's possible to build something like an
unbreakable Java architecture. Some may even remember the White Star Line
promising that their ocean liner Titanic was unsinkable; an iceberg in the
North Atlantic proved them wrong and demonstrated that there is no such thing
as an unsinkable ship. Is it really possible to build a Java application
server that never goes down?
It's All About Isolation
The key to understanding robust Java is isolation, isolation, and isolation.
Robust applications, especially robust application servers,... (more)
Thomas Smits has a degree in business administration and economics with a focus on business informationtechnology. His first contact with Java was 8 years ago. Since then, he's been eating, sleeping, and drinking Java. He did development projects for German Rail (Die Bahn), Brenntag, and other companies. Thomas authored a course on Java Web technology for Sun Microsystems and has done a lot of customer-specific training on Java. Since 2002 he is a development architect in the SAP NetWeaver team.
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