OpenShift Express — The Future Of RedHat PaaS

Last couple of days I was at JUDCon India conference held in Bangalore where I gave a session on OpenShift. The JUDCon India was the biggest JUDCon conference ever with more than 800 attendees. Sessions were mainly on topics — Infinispan, JBoss AS7 , OpenShift, CDI, Rules Engine, and other JBoss tools. I was mainly interested in hearing [...]

MongoDB Replica Set on OpenShift Flex

As I am preparing for my JUDCon session on OpenShift one topic that I will be covering is setting up MongoDB Replica Set on OpenShift Flex. There are various reasons to setup MongoDB replication. The primary reason for replication is to ensure data survive single or multiple machine failures. The more replicas you have, the [...]

Using Hibernate SafeHtml Validator In Application Running On OpenShift Express

I use Spring Roo to create sample applications for me. Spring Roo uses JSR 303 (Bean Validation) to validate the entities for invalid values. Today I created a very simple application — a simple PasteBin clone where you can anonymously create post or share text snippets. I wanted to validate that field post should not [...]

Running Spring Java MongoDB Apps on OpenShift Express Using Spring Roo OpenShift Express Addon

Last couple of years Spring Roo has been one of my favorite tool to rapidly build Spring applications for demo, POC, and learning new technologies. With Spring Roo Cloud Foundry integration you can not only build applications rapidly but deploy to Cloud Foundry public cloud with a couple of commands. In case you are not [...]

Deploying a Spring Hibernate MySQL Application on OpenShift Flex (RedHat PaaS Solution)

Last XKE me and Sameer started a sandpit to evaluate the capabilities of OpenShift and see how easy or difficult will be to deploy an existing or new Java applications on OpenShift . OpenShift is a multi-language(PHP, Ruby, Python, Java), multi-framework Platform as a Service provided by RedHat with the goal to help developers build [...]