Johannes Schlüter

So, this website moved. It isn't the citizen of a Linux box anymore but is running inside a zone on an OpenSolaris host. The only non-default software powering this server I compiled myself is a current svn snapshot of PHP 5.3.2-dev. Let's see if I can keep this system clean or whether it becomes such a mess as the old Linux box. For now I'm happy about the isolation using zones, snapshots with ZFS before playing around and DTrace in case something goes wrong

I recently wrote a few postings about great Sun stuff. The reason for that? - Well since joining Sun I get all the information about the things Sun does and there are tons of cool things, I enjoy OpenSolaris, especially DTrace and zfs (zfs snapshots!) - these are great pieces of technology. Ok, you can feel that OpenSolaris isn't finished yet, but it's a good step from a classic Unix to a quite usable system.

Now Sun is famous for another product family: Java. For me Java has always been a synonym for ugly and annoying applets and over-engineered "enterprise" applications which are close to being unusable. Being Sun I learned about a new technology for fighting the RIA wars against Microsoft's Silverlight and Adobe's Flex: JavaFX. After browsing a while over the different sites I found out that key part of JavaFX is a declarative scripting language for creating user-interfaces. That sounds quite cool - no annoying and over-verbose XML and no procedural coding for describing a GUI, but a syntax which looks quite sane for that. So I wanted to give it a shot. And that's where the trouble began ...