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Orbitz Open Sources Tools To Manage Large Distributed Applications

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the playing-nice dept.

mjasay writes "CNET is reporting that on Monday Orbitz will announce the creation and release of two open-source projects, Extremely Reusable Monitoring API (ERMA) and Graphite, both 'part of a Complex Event Processing system designed to monitor large distributed applications, analyze the data that is gathered and display that data in real-time graphs.' Though there were hints of these projects at JavaOne earlier this year, Monday's announcement adds significant context to the work Orbitz has done to create two highly compelling open-source projects, whose applicability extends far beyond the travel industry. In particular, it highlights Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst's vision that enterprise IT needs to open up and collaborate. However, as Orbitz's development team notes, it's easier said than done to participate in open source, especially when creating projects rather than simply contributing to existing projects."

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  1. are you guys still on jdk 1.4? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So when Orbitz is going to accept progress and move away from soon to be sunseted jdk 1.4

    1. Re:are you guys still on jdk 1.4? by afidel · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Lots of stuff runs on jdk 1.4.7 since it was the stable and supported version for so long, especially when 1.5 was in flux. I have a ton of tools that ask for it and I know most of the Oracle stuff in 10g r2 uses it (and fails to include the TZ updates so every time we install a new client we have to TZ patch it). Basically Enterprise IT is often much slower moving than other areas of IT because we get bit by bleeding edge often enough to know it's often just not worth it if there's an alternative that has the same functionality and is more stable wrt change.

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    2. Re:are you guys still on jdk 1.4? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      There is no excuse for using 1.4.2 .. don't give me the stability excuse 1.5 is far better and 1.6 is way better stability and performance..

  2. i thought java didn't matter by trybywrench · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A large company using Java for enterprise applications? wow and here Taco had me thinking Java Only Matters to Sell Books(tm).

    Thanks Orbitz for open sourcing your apps. The ERMA things looks really cool.

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