Sun has a great article on their Sun Developer Network site showing how to develop a WebService using annotations on the Glassfish EE5.0 server, and then use the JMX facilities to monitor the performance.
Using GoogleMaps API with JSP Tags
Google have developed a Javascript based API that allows you to build websites using the Google Maps functionality. In case you don’t want to mess around with Javascript, then here is some info about an open source project providing a library of JSP Custom Tags to offer the same integration with the GoogleMaps API.
WD Raptor X 150GB drive review – RegHardware
RegHardware.co.uk have a great review of the Western Digital Raptor X 150GB drive. If you’ve been following the hard drive market for the last year or so, you’ll already know about WD’s 10,000rpm drives, that up until this point only came in relatively small capacities of 36 and 72Gb.
Until now. Now you can get a 150Gb drive with the same outrageous 10,000rpm spin spead and 15Mb cache – this is a drive that you’ll be hard pushed to match. Only a RAID 0 with 2 decent 7200rpm drives will come close to the performance of this drive.
Of course 150GB is still small compared to the 500GB drives currently on the market, but if you’re looking for speed, then this is the drive to go for.
Sun readies rentable CPU farm
Sun has been working on this one for some time now, but news is that a massive grid computing site (with more to follow) is almost ready for customers. The site offers 5,000 dual-core CPUs, and if the pricing plan annouced in September 2004 still stands then customers will be able to rent processing power by the CPU, $1 per CPU on a pay-as-you-go scheme.