Tag Archives: Java

Turbulent Java times

Posted on 2010-12-13 by janhoy

Times have been turbulent in the Java camp since Oracle took over Sun, trying to make Java a less open specification. Well, now the Apache Software Foundation has made real their promise to leave the JCP EC if Oracle continued … Continue reading →

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Can Oracle stop Java from opening up?

Posted on 2010-11-11 by janhoy

There is an exciting war going on about the future openness of the Java platform. Oracle is trying to capitalize on its ownership/stewardship of Java, by starting to charge for their enterprise version of the JVM, as well as stopping … Continue reading →

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Cominvent pioneers Solr Training in Scandinavia

Posted on 2010-01-20 by janhoy

Cominvent is the first company in Scandinavia to offer professional classroom training for the Open Source search engine Apache Solr. Last week we conducted a training in Denmark, and we plan for a regular schedule in Oslo and on-demand elsewhere … Continue reading →

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Test-driving Apache SOLR (part 1)

Posted on 2008-05-02 by janhoy

Some of you read my previous posts The state of open source search. I will in this post go through the process of downloading, installing, configuring and using Apache SOLR to index some sample XML data and search it. This … Continue reading →

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Norweigan search portal Sesam.no releases middleware as GPL

Posted on 2008-03-16 by janhoy

In this blog post, Sesam annonces that their middleware architecture, Sesam Search Application Toolkit (SESAT) is released as open source software. This is the piece of software (written in Java) which sits between the portal (such as sesam.no) and the … Continue reading →

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