Recently, Blitz has been getting some commercial interest which has kept me busy especially when one of my customers hit a deadlock. I’ve written that same customer a remote bootstrapping application that allows them to remotely load their entire JINI application and get it up and running. The real killer is that each downloader can be given a different profile as required by the system admin - this has many uses including testing new builds, value add for specific customers etc.
In between that work, I’ve been developing a JavaSpaces/JINI application rather than an implementation. It makes a nice change to work above the JavaSpaces API rather than under the covers. It allows me to spend time looking at Blitz from a users’ perspective and tweaking things accordingly. Of course, I’m rather an advanced user so it’s only so useful. Thus far, it’s meant a couple of additional configuration variables and a few fixes for the experimental nio transport.
So what is the application? Sorry, it’s remaining cloaked for now. What I will say is that it’s not going to be a pure JavaSpaces/JINI play - you can certainly access it that way but it’s likely going to have a REST-based web interface as well. There’s lots of things you could do with it but I have some specific ideas which will shape it’s direction for a while (no, I’m not telling). At least initially, it won’t be opensource which is something of a departure from the norm, instead it’ll be provided via Lone Crusader in some manner. I’ve already developed a couple of new patterns, not sure how to/if I should make those public. Bit of an experiment, should be interesting……
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