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I have heard and read at lot of places about Elasticity and Scalability of the cloud. In a discussion the point came across that what actually is the difference between Elasticity and the Scalability, when it comes to cloud. I myself could not find the demarcation, so I searched around the web. But to my surprise lot of people on the articles conviniently use Elasticity and Scalability interchangeably in relation the cloud. After reading around I could not find the answer, so I though to put my own thoughts since I dont agrre that both is same and let people decide if my understanding is right or not. What means by Elasticity in relation to cloud is that it could scale up or down the infrastructure to meet the requirement. Elasticity is about instantly bringing you the necessary resource when you need it and instantly decommission them when you don't need it. Elasticity is an important feature of the cloud offering as you are charged only during the time when you are using it. Sc

While installing the subversion plugin Subclipse in the Eclipse IDE I came across a problem. Subclipse uses "JavaHL (JNI)" to interface with subversion by default. Initially I was getting the following error message when accessing Windows->Preferences->Team->SVN->SVN Interface dropdown: JavaHL (JNI) Not Available When attempting to view a repository via the "SVN Repository Exploring" perspective I got a different error message: Unable to load default SVN client So I installed the below package sudo apt-get install libsvn-java Still the problem continued and I realized that I need to provide the liberary to Eclipse (3.6 Helios) I choose to set the path to the JavaHL libraries via a command line argument. I accomplished this by setting my Launcher icon for Eclipse to use the command /path/to/eclipse -vmargs -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni Another option is to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to point to the /usr/lib/jni in your .profile file.

I know the article is too late. We are done with all type of definitions and I am now talking about it. I planned to write a five second explanation is because I keep bumping into this question and believe me there are numerous definitions poured on the person asking this question and he is looked upon as if he does not know what internet is but finally in the end of the discussion the person asking the question still does not have the answer. Even I came to know the answer pretty late and after some drilling on internet for the definition. Here's my take on it: Although the term Web 2.0 suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to new technology but rather to cumulative changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the Web World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee clarifies, "I think Web 2.0 is, of course, a piece of jargon; nobody even knows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is 'people to people.' But that