A while ago I ordered some beautiful engineered hardwood flooring for my condo. They said it would arrive in two weeks. I was a bit late ordering and mis-scheduled the installation a few days too early. Luckily the installer's current job was late to start (because of the other tradesmen), so he was happy to start later.

On the day the flooring materials were supposed to arrive, I received a phone call informing me that it will be another week! The installer said rescheduling for the following week is OK because his current job was taking longer than originally planned (very hard wood broke his air hammer). That was a relief.

Another week passed, and my flooring was supposed to arrive today. It didn't arrive, and this time the flooring company said the shipper won't move their trucks until they have full loads because of gas prices!! Obviously I wasn't happy, especially since I have no idea when the truck will have a full load. A few hours later the flooring company phoned to let me know it will arrive sometime on Monday. It better arrive this time!! I've got the installer scheduled to come in Monday morning to remove my carpet, level any un-level concrete and glue down the under padding. He'll pick up the flooring the following morning and let it acclimatize in my condo for a few days before installing.

I really hope it is finished next week because I have been living with only a mattress on the floor and a computer desk for over three months. I sold all of my furniture when I moved and ordered new stuff which is supposed to be ready any day now. It can't be delivered until after the flooring is installed.

Now I've got to see if there's any more junk in my condo I can get rid of before the floor installers come. Last week I retired an old computer that used to run my website and moved the site onto a newer box running OpenSolaris and GlassFish V2. I must say that I really love the SMF feature in OpenSolaris which works kind of like Windows services -- dependencies and all. GlassFish's asadmin tool has a create-service command that configures SMF to start/stop/restart it. Now they need to make the create-service command support Windows services too so admins don't need to use the command line tool that I wrote.

Just days after the official release of GlassFish V2 in September 2007, we migrated one of our production applications from JBoss 4 to GlassFish V2. I had been playing with GlassFish V1 and later V2 for many months and -really- liked the command line and web based admin console. Earlier I had been given the opportunity to make major changes to our application to port it over to Java EE 5 using features such as JSF, JPA, JAX-WS and EJB 3. I had also converted our proprietary JBoss JMX MBean service to a standard JCA resource adapter. The rollout of GlassFish V2 and the new version of our application went smoothly, and we lived happily ever after. Well, not quite. A few weeks later we experienced our first lockup.