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Connecting to a Remote database from a JWS/Tomcat application on OpenShift

Guna Vijayaratnam

One of the common requirements for Java based applications on OpenShift is to have these workloads connect back out to an enterprise database that resides outside of the OpenShift infrastructure. While OpenShift natively supports a variety of relational databases (including Postgres and MySQL) as Docker based deployments within the platform, connecting to an existing enterprise database infrastructure is preferred in many large organizations for a variety of reasons including: Inherent confidence in traditional databases due to in house experience around...

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Externalize HTTP Session Data to the JBoss Data Grid

Guna Vijayaratnam

Introduction This article aims to provide a step by step guide for setting up a remote Red Hat JBoss Data Grid (JDG) cluster as an HTTP session store for your state-full web applications running on Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP). I had recently explored this setup for another customer and figured it would be helpful to put together a set of detailed instructions for replicating this. This feature was recently released with the GA of JDG 6.5. Benefits...