“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.” — Buddha Too often it’s easy to spend hours days weeks far too long reading blogs and wilfing doing research. Looking for that perfect tool. Looking for a wonderful library. Looking for a new technique. Looking, looking, looking. Almost like Hans Guck-in-die-Luft, …
Monthly Archive: August 2009
Aug 25
Using jnp as a JBoss heartbeat
jnp is a JBoss protocol which exposes jndi. It is, by default, bound to port 1099. I’d been using that port as a heartbeat, but “cheating” — I would open a socket and then close it immediately. However, this caused problems. jnp is chatty. And it got upset at my not letting it say ‘hi’ …