If you are a web application developer and have never heard of HtmlUnit , it is time to give it a look.
It is a simple API that allows you to write a Java program that can simulate a user traveling through a website. It doesn’t just read the URL into an input stream; it can parse the HTML and allows you to simulate clicking on buttons, clicking on links, firing JavaScript functions, and more.
Read More »Whether or not you choose to spread your application stack across server instances, I highly recommend you put no more than one application per cloud server unless you have special circumstances in play. For example, if you value performance far more than scalability, you might want to collocate applications that communicate frequently to avoid network overhead. In most cases, you’ll be better off splitting them up.
Read More »Open source application audits using source code scanning tools are a critical part of a corporate open source software policy management and governance process; there literally is no way around it these days. Without the use of a scanning tool, organizations may rely on homegrown tools, manual inspection and inventory of source code repositories, and developer interviews to implement the governance process. In our experience, even with full disclosure of open source usage from very honest and open development teams, things slip through the cracks. And, lets face it, manual inspection of source code is painfully slow. Homegrown tools might be a realistic approach for larger companies, but they require the allocation of internal resources, not only to use the tools but also to also maintain and update them regularly.
Most open source auditing engagements are completed in the context of scanning a code base of a product line to confirm that a company has appropriately separated their intellectual property from the third party components. When third party components are used and distributed all licenses for these components need to be identified and there needs to be confirmation that appropriate license compliance steps have been taken. OpenLogic’s Application Audit and Certification of Compliance services are one solution to consider when outsourcing to a team of experts as these are a full report of all materials, licenses, and a re-verification of compliance steps being completed.
Read More »In the first two weeks of April, I attended four distinct open source related events in three different cities and two countries. It will take months to ponder, absorb, and follow-up on all of the thought-provoking presentations, conversations, and feedback I participated in or received. In spite of the range of topics and agendas being covered along the way, there were a couple themes that reverberated.
One theme involved the idea that open source license compliance is not a legal problem, but an engineering and software problem.
Read More »What an exciting time it is for the open source software community!
Cloud technology is evolving faster than we can read about it. Marketplaces are now part of our common vernacular. The ever changing world that we live in, and these advancements in technology, are providing the open source software community with infinite opportunities to showcase creativity to the world.
I have highlighted 3 of the more recognizable, and recently launched marketplaces, that speak to this opportunistic time for open source software contributors and users.
Read More »JBoss, Tomcat & Apache are 3 of the most popular open source packages being used in the enterprise and have been for quite a while. Enterprises tend to have a high level of comfort using them in their development and other non-production environments. But as soon as you bring up the idea of open source software in production a funny thing happens. You can hear brakes squealing, sirens going off, and see panic set in with business leaders in your company. Then the questions start. What if it breaks? Who is on the hook at 2 am? Is it secure? Is it as good as commercial software? What about indemnification?
Read More »Seth Godin blogged the other day about how wants can turn into needs when people have all their basic needs met, and it got me to thinking about how different organizations with similar open source usage models can have very different perceptions about the necessity of open source support. Why do some companies approach open source support as a luxury — nice to have, but not worth prioritizing until a problem occurs — while others place it firmly in the need column?
Read More »The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) standard is getting some love lately and this is good news for open source license compliance. Which is, in turn, good for open source in general. If you are involved in software license compliance activities you need to include SPDX in your plans for the future. It will allow you to manage the risks of software licensing in a more efficient and predictable way than ever before.
SPDX defines a standard way to represent the contents and licensing of software packages. This standard representation provides a shared vocabulary for tools involved in managing license compliance. The SPDX standard is being developed under the auspices of The Linux Foundation as a way to ease complying with the licenses of open source software. The model provided by SPDX is fully compatible with proprietary software licensing also. This means that SPDX provides a uniform way to represent the licensing of any software package. Being able to treat both open source and commercial software the same way allows license compliance processes and tools to be simplified and streamlined.
Read More »BROOMFIELD, Colo. April 20th 2012—OpenLogic, Inc., provider of enterprise open source solutions for the data center and the cloud, today announced that its open platform as a service, CloudSwing, is now available on AWS Marketplace. OpenLogic CloudSwing is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that provides complete choice around infrastructure, components and programming languages. In addition, CloudSwing provides easy configuration, cost tracking, application monitoring and enhanced enterprise grade security for public or private clouds.
Read More »Pin It Open Source Management: Dealing with New OSS Releases The first quarter of this year has be a busy time in open source management. JBoss has had two releases in the 7.1 series, the Apache web server has had two releases in the 2.4 series and Ruby on Rails has had two releases in [...]
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