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Developer TV What's a GlassFish Anyway?
Host: Kuldip Oberoi
Guest: Karen Tegan Padir
Running Time: 7:14
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It’s transparent, and it’s teeming. Sun brings open source to the enterprise.
Last edition you heard all about the emerging Java market for mobile and embedded applications. Today we'll look at the other end of the spectrum--the enterprise market--where there’s another healthy Java ecosystem. Java truly is everywhere, from the handheld to the data center.
On this episode of SDNtv, Kuldip talks with Sun’s Karen Tegan Padir about GlassFish, an open source community around Sun’s application server.
The GlassFish ecosystem is growing fast. The latest version of the code includes all the enterprise features that data centers need--clustering, failover, and other high-end capabilities. As for the community itself, there are now over 1600 members, and there have been 2.6 million downloads of the code in less than a year. Check out The Aquarium to catch up on all the GlassFish happenings.
GlassFish also made news at JavaOne last month when Ericsson donated its SIP Servlet container to the project. The new project is called Sailfin, and this is leading-edge stuff for the telco market.
I understand that some folks have gotten confused by exactly what GlassFish is and how it compares to the Sun Java System Application Server, so it was good to hear Padir's explanation. Now I get it.
I can’t sign off without mentioning the amazing “gadget” the Geek Gadget Guru found for us this episode--an unmanned helicopter from Perrone Robotics. It’s about the size of a bobsled, and it’s used for extremely accurate, sub-inch topographical surveys. And just to reiterate that Java is everywhere--even in the air--it runs an on-board Java real-time system to integrate the data it collects.
Be sure to come back next week and learn about one of the biggest market opportunities for Java developers.
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- Project GlassFish - free, open source, production-quality, enterprise software
- Project SailFin - learn about the SIP Servlets technology contributed by Ericsson
- Perrone Robotics - providers of Software for Robotics & Automation
- Blu-ray Disc Association - the next generation format for high-def entertainment
- Blu-ray Format Licensing (BD Spec)
- MX Production.- digital entertainment technology
- High-Definition DVD HandbooK - by Mark Johnson, Charles Crawford and Chris Armbrust
- mSpot - mobile entertainment delivered
- HD Cookbook
- OpenJDK and NetBeans IDE - find out how these projects work together
- Kaffee.org - clean room implementation of the Java virtual machine
- JavaFX - reach more customers on more devices
- JavaFX and NetBeans - plug-ins are already available
- JavaOne Keynote - Announcing JavaFX
- The Latest Innovation: Java FX! - feature story by Leslie T. O'Neill
JavaOne Online General and Technical Sessions
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Blogs and Wikis
- The Aquarium - get the latest news on GlassFish and related technologies
- Mobile and Embedded Community Blogs
- JavaFX - First Steps - O'reilly on Java.com, the Independent Source for Enterprise Java
- Chris Oliver's Weblog - all about JavaFX
- Planet JFX - open source documentation wiki for the new JavaFX scripting platform
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