It’s been a hectic week. It’s closer to project roll-out now and only now I’ve realized the complexity of it. Still, I’m in no position to complain, I’m not the one in-charge. It’s a welcomed change from when I had to do pretty much of everything. At least now there’s a person above me that has to worry about it 
It’s real fun though. I’m finally playing with EJBs and application servers. Granted it’s still pre-EJB3, but fun nonetheless. Recently had to dig up concerns related to programming pitfals when it comes to clustering. Managed to find quite a number of articles; they’re all tagges in my del.icio.us bookmarks if anyone is interested. Using BEA Weblogic as our application server, so that is another area to brush up on. I might be able to handle servlet containers such as Tomcat but this is a different beast altogether. It’s really an impressive piece of software - and I’ve barely scratched the surface.
Another tough hurdle to overcome is Oracle. Overall, it’s not that tough to use, with the proper tools of course. But I imagine setting it up and optimizing it is a much tougher job than merely using it. That’s probably why these past few weeks there has been a consultant working with the team to tune it. I’m pretty amazed at what the guy can do. Even more amazing is the rate at which on of my seniors is absorbing the know-how.
It seems to me that being involved with this project is a real blessing, technical-wise. Hopefully in a few month’s time, I’ll know more of Oracle and Weblogic plus hands-on experience in J2EE coding.