dimanche mai 04, 2008
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GlassFish unconference - TODAY, SUNDAY
The unconference is today, Sunday 4th May @ 3pm in the Moscone center
Now, this isn't a final set of topics, whoever comes (you can still sign up or just show up) will decide on the final agenda.
Quick GlassFish unconference update I've had people tell me the GlassFish unconference sounds like for core community members only. If you look at the registration page we indeed have a full house of GlassFish engineers (thanks all for signing up!), but clearly if you use GlassFish or intend to in any way, you should get something out of the discussions there. The content will be driven by the people that show up and this is not a death-by-powepoint gathering. Sun people are there to listen, share, and discuss, not present. Remember, NO SLIDES (very short demos are acceptable)! v3, scripting, Rest, ESB, real-life experiences, and migration seem to be the hotest topics so far. ( avr. 23 2008, 09:43:57 AM CEST ) Permalink Comments [1]GlassFish unconference planning Wiki page now open to all Ok, so I've created a Wiki page on wikis.sun.com to plan the attendance and content of our May 4th Moscone GlassFish unconference. It should be editable by all (not just me or Sun employees), so please add yourself if you're interested in participating: http://wikis.sun.com/display/GFunconfSF08/GlassFish+unconference+planning ( avr. 17 2008, 06:18:59 PM CEST ) Permalink Comments [0]Let's see, does that say anything about me?
Well GlassFish un-conference on May 4th 2008 (Pre-JavaOne)
Hi all,
I'd love to get your feedback on our current thinking:
Some technical details/constraints :
If there's enough interest, we could also try to have a "GlassFish porting fest" with people working/hacking on GlassFish and their application throughout the event in a dedicated part of the room PS: I hear talks about a party at the end of that day (Sunday), but this may just be rumors ;) ( avr. 11 2008, 04:43:09 PM CEST ) Permalink Comments [1]GlassFish progress in Europe in 12 months This is built on the usage of the GlassFish admin console use between Feb. 2007 and Feb. 2008. Some people don't use it (tools integration, CLI), others will not get the "live" page (proxy not set, firewall, no connectivity, ...). What matters is order of magnitude and relative progress.
Total hits (27x) :
Sun AppServer (GlassFish) / MySQL bundle now available
The full distro is less than 150 MB (double that once installed on disk). It includes the open source GlassFish v2ur1 app server (Sun App Server 9.1ur1), MySQL Community Server 5.0 and of course the MySQL JDBC driver (version 5.1.16). You can get the bits off of
The database default "SMALL" install option corresponds to a system using 64 MB memory or less (typically a developer platform).
Once installed (interactive and silent installs available), the application server can be started using this simple command (or simply during the install process) :
Creating a connection pool to the MySQL DB using the web console is pretty simple (command-line equivalent is Support for Sun Application Server/GlassFish starts at $4500 for 4 sockets while unlimited supports calls for MySQL Enterprise starts at $1999 per server. Access to patches (sustaining branch) is included in both support plans. I have very regular discussions with GlassFish clients, system integrators, ISVs, and OEMs and the most common question (a fairly valid one too) I've been getting is this - "Great product experience and great roadmap, but how serious are you about this Open Source model?". Needless to say that I haven't heard the question since the MySQL acquisition. ( mars 27 2008, 09:42:00 AM CET ) Permalink Comments [4]GlassFish and Metro Web Services now available to Microsoft Technology Centers
I'm happy to report now that the GlassFish application server, its Metro Web Services technology, and its NetBeans tooling are all now available in the Paris Microsoft Technology Center. Microsoft customers interested in Web Services interoperability now can kick the tyres of a .Net/WCF + Java EE/GlassFish combinaison with WS-Addressing, MTOM/XOP, WS-Policy, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Security, WS-Trust, and WS-SecrureConversation (full list) before they use it in their architectures. Thanks to Stéphane for his support (and the Tango photograph!). Let's hope the word spreads to more MTC's around the world. ( mars 27 2008, 12:08:09 AM CET ) Permalink Comments [0]
Wotif.com, a good GlassFish experience (available as audio podcast)
Greg Luck, Wotif.com's Chief Architect has a GlassFish case-study available as the latest GlassFish Podcast episode. A gentleman at the end asks a question about whether this was truly a successful GlassFish experience for Wotif.com given the issues faced before going into production. Having been in sales for the past 7 years and still pretty involved, I think that this certainly qualifies as a good experience but you probably need to listen to the podcast and to Greg's answer to this question. If you haven't heard of Wotif.com, they're the largest hotel booking site in Australia, and growing. ( mars 09 2008, 12:01:05 PM CET ) Permalink Comments [0]Wrap-up of GlassFish Day in Sydney The GlassFish Day in Sydney is now over and I believe it was a great success with very good presenters. Several people came to thank me for the overall level of the presentations. Greg Luck from Wotif.com gave a presentation (which I'll soon try to put out as a GlassFish Podcast) on their experience of using GlassFish in production (based on v1 but still a very interesting story). Chris Fleischmann covered the various techniques for monitoring GlassFish (using JMX, AMX, CallFlow, and Glassbox), a topic often requested once users get closer to production. This pretty much shows how much work has gone into making GlassFish a production product. There were questions about SNMP support which should be available in one of the next releases (before v3). Dave Whitla, yet another Wotif.com employee and apparently the person that brought GlassFish into the account (thanks Dave!), had a presentation on OpenMQ which the company uses since migrating off of ActiveMQ. Michael Czapski gave the OpenESB talk which highlighted the basis of the upcoming Java CAPS product, showed the value of JBI, GlassFish, and how slick the NetBeans 6 tooling is for OpenESB. My presentations (v2/v3, community, practical GlassFish) were also well received I believe. Of all the presentations, Dave's MQ session got the most number of questions and all were pretty interactive. All presentation slides are now available from the wiki page for the event.
GlassFish Day Sydney - Last Call
This is also the last call for GlassFish Day this Thursday. It seems Arun and the Hyderabad attendees put the bar pretty high up, so make sure you don't make me look bad and register ;-) See you there! ( mars 03 2008, 12:16:48 PM CET ) Permalink Comments [0] Migrating Java EE Applications? Here's a good blog to keep an eye on. If you ask me, I think there's lots of room for GlassFish for new development and applications. If you ask my customers, they're keen on being able to migrate existing applications to GlassFish. For those people, the AVK and the GlassFish Migration tool are great assets. What make the tools even better is sample code and experience fixing what took can (yet) migration automatically. Sekhar has one such example where he goes through the variations on library (facelets), JNDI naming, persistence provider configuration, and packaging of an existing application on its way to GlassFish. Most of the changes seem to be resulting from the AVK triggering warnings or errors. Note the AVK is available also straight from NetBeans. Wether you're looking to migrate to GlassFish or simply interested in what it takes to write portable applications, Sekhar's blog is a great one to follow. ( févr. 12 2008, 06:07:00 AM CET ) Permalink Comments [1]Woodstock from the GlassFish Update Center Woodstock is a GlassFish sub-project providing a set of nice JSF components used throughout Sun web admin consoles (like the GlassFish Web Console). It's easily available from the NetBeans JSF palette. Some components are AJAX-enabled and all components are theme-able.
To get a feel for what's available from your local GlassFish v2 install, simply go to the update center ( Three months after the release of GlassFish v2, here comes GlassFish v2 Update Release 1 (UR1).
• get GlassFish v2ur1 bits HERE (the official build is "b09b-fcs")
Among the things you'll quickly notice:
Also new with this release:
Enjoy! ( déc. 19 2007, 07:24:53 PM CET ) PermalinkSoftware in Grenoble in January
Registration is happening now by sending a mail to gec-event@sun.com. You do not have to attend all 4 days. Days 1 & 2 are focused on Sun Secure Global Desktop, Sun Ray and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, while days 3 & 4 are a bit broader in scope - OpenSolaris, Glassfish, NetBeans, OpenDS, OpenESB , xVM, OpenJDK, OpenDMK, Identity Management, Federation Management, Java CAPS ...
Everything else about the event:
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