vendredi mai 02, 2008 
vendredi mai 02, 2008 VirtualBox 1.6 with Solaris and Mac love
VirtualBox 1.6 is out. Check out this blog for the details.
Clearly the Solaris Guest Additions and the MacOS support are big additions.
I also need to check the new Web Services support will JAX-WS/Metro.
jeudi mai 01, 2008
FYI, this coming Sunday morning, a bunch of Europeans are going for a "Bike the Bridge" tour right before the GlassFish un-conference.
I wasn't sure I emailed everyone so this is a reminder to a broader audience.
Meeting is at 9:30am at Fisherman's Wharf. Send me an email or leave a message if you'd like to join.
Oh, and if you're a local, you can join too, some people just felt it was too much of a tourist thing to do ;)
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mercredi avril 02, 2008 EMEA TechTalk on GlassFish et NetBeans
Starting now.
Update: about 100 attendees and something like 120 questions. Thanks to everyone who showed up! Transcript to follow.
mardi février 12, 2008 Sun to acquire VirtualBox creator Innotek
This really sounds like a late Christmas! I am very excited about mySQL but this new VirtualBox/InnoTek acquisition is also very nice as I've been a happy user for a little while to run recent Solaris SXDE builds on various guest OS's.
More on Steve Wilson's blog.
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lundi janvier 21, 2008 Grenoble Software Event Report
I'm back from our Grenoble Sun & Partner Software Event. The attendance was fairly high with 190 (initial goal was 100) from 20 European countries. Attendees seemed to enjoy the presentations, the interactions with the speakers and the overal networking (of course, having this event in the heart of the French Alps was enjoyed by many). Kudos to Dominique for driving the effort for the overall event!
A lot of people (mainly partners) realized how much progress GlassFish has made and how competitive it's become wrt commercial products (in addition to Open Source competitors). My presentation slides are available here.
During the GlassFish breakout session we had some interesting discussion about whether Tomcat was competition to GlassFish or not (I think it is). One partner even questioned the future of Tomcat given what he considers as its lack of corporate backing. Others had more advanced questions related to their use of GlassFish in production (connection pools' ability to cope with failing database, ability to update default web apps deployed at the root web context) as well as some naming suggestions ;)
Of course, we also discussed the BEA acquisition by Oracle as well as the MySQL announcement. The overall impression was that both were very good news for Sun. Weblogic is a great product but the acquisition has Gartner's Pezzini suggesting postponing investment in BEA (FR_fr) for the moment. MySQL is seen as an ideal complement to GlassFish although the price paid, and previous investments to PostgreSQL or JavaDB were expressed as concerns. Jonathan's latest "Vortex" and Josh Berkus' blogs explain how this is only a validation of the Open Source Database previous investments. I don't believe databases can be compared to application servers anyhow and mySQL/JavaDB/postgreSQL sounds like a perfect combinaison to cover the full spectrum. Finally, while I like the "Oracle is buying the past while Sun is investing in the future", that too is over simplified.
There was also GlassFish-related content from Roman, Jason, and others (identity).
Paul Sandoz being local he obviously presented on REST/JAX-RS/Jersey and looking at the surveys, he was *very* successful in getting interest from the majority of participants. His presentation was a nice combination of REST concepts, JAX-WS introduction and Jersey demos.
I had a very nice diner with Paul and Roman Strobl with local Fondue. Roman failed to join OpenDS's Ludovic Poitou and myself on the next day for skying but his fellow Czech citizen Kamil (a GlassFish and NetBeans happy camper) didn't. Best snow and weather in a long time!
Overal, a great experience for what really seemed to be a Sun & Friends Software User Group event.
(event photos courtesy of Ludo)
lundi janvier 07, 2008 Grenoble Software Event is next week
The Grenoble Software Event at the Sun R&D facility is next week and there are a few places left (mainly for days 3&4). The event is for Sun engineers and CSI's. Attendance is free. Registration by simply sending a mail to gec-event-AT-sun.com.
Anyone up for skying on the Saturday after the event?
jeudi novembre 29, 2007 docs.sun.com now has a blog on blogs.sun.com. Not a support website, but certainly a place for comments and suggestions to make it a better service (it's come a loooong way already).
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lundi octobre 08, 2007 Sun TechDays Italy presentations are online
...here.
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mercredi septembre 19, 2007 Two code bases is one two many
Ok, so reading this post, it really seems to me like it's hard for IBM to maintain two products (WebSphere and Geronimo) in this competitive market and probably hard to explain which one is right for the customers.
If BEA was to join some existing effort, GlassFish would be a more natural choice because customers do not want to lose features (clustering) or performance and because of their recent commitment to the GlassFish JAX-WS stack.
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lundi septembre 10, 2007 Via Simon, IBM has joined the OpenOffice.org community
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vendredi août 24, 2007 Ok, so like everyone else I guess I need to comment on the SUNW to JAVA move. I imagine every Java developer will find this a bizarre idea and that was my first reaction. But frankly we're not the target audience and seeing how everyone and their mother feels they need to comment on this topic, I'm thinking this is turning out to be a very good communication strategy. Oh, and this is just a ticker name.
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mardi juin 19, 2007 Now powered by Apache Roller 4.0
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blogs.sun.com, the website with 3325+ weblogs, 3681+ users, 70416+ posts and 66976+ comments is now running on Roller 4.0 which now requires Java 5 and is built on Struts 2 and a JPA back-end. It all happened as you would expect for any SaaS. Transparently.
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mercredi juin 06, 2007 http://openid.sun.com/alexismp
lundi mai 14, 2007
Open source is not about "good enough" clones
This JavaOne was certainly big on client technologies which probably made my friend Romain very happy. Just looking at three announcements it may sound as if these are simply clones to existing technologies: JavaFX is compared to Flash, WorldWind Java to Google Earth and Project Wonderland (and derived MPK20) to SecondLife.
They all have Java in common but that's not the point. I would argue that community work and openness is what makes plausible the promise of taking existing concepts to a new level. Open source JavaFX runs everywhere, not just in most browsers, but on all platforms. WorldWind Java is not extensible via plugins, it *is* a plugin. Project Wonderland is bringing business collaboration to what today is essentially anonymous gaming.
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vendredi avril 27, 2007 Blogs.Sun.Com (BSC) is three years old today. Thanks P@ for showing me the ropes and bugging until I started Bistro!. Tim Bray has also been the inspiration and I certainly recommend his Ten Reasons Why Blogging is Good For Your Career for those who've never read it.
I'm only a month and a half behind the BSC launch and this has been and still is a great adventure with 512 entries (less than 1% of the total BSC blogs) and 653 comments (just a little over 1%). This is not counting my recent contributions to TheAquarium and Stories blogs.
Thanks for all the fish!
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