Tech Per

Today I was battling an issue for some of my colleagues. They were getting this exception from JBoss/Mysql ConnectorJ driver:

java.sql.SQLException: Ping failed: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: object is not an instance of declaring class

in the JBoss console.
A look at the stacktrace told me, that it was coming from inside the method com.mysql.jdbc.integration.jboss.MysqlValidConnectionChecker.isValidConnection, so naturally, I dived into the [...]

Hmm, it seems today was the day of big acquisitions.
Oracle Buys BEA
I can see the benefit in this one, at least for Oracle. They are getting a seriously good Java application server (WebLogic), something they have been missing always. It isn’t that Oracle has not tried. I seem to recollect that they once built one [...]