mercredi septembre 19, 2007

GlassFish Update Center - what's available (Jersey, Roller, JRubyOnRails, Phobos)

No, GlassFish is not an IDE, but yes GlassFish v2 has an update center (start it using the binary in GLASSFISH/updatecenter/bin). While it only had a few updates to GlassFish and additional documentation for a while, with the release of GlassFish v2, we're starting to see a whole set of additional features available through this delivery mechanism: •  Jersey (JAX-RS implementation) •  JRubyOnRails (using Goldspike) •  Phobos for server-side scripting with Rhino 1.6R7 (includes E4X) •  The Roller Blogging Server (the software powering blogs.sun.com). Try this page (short slideshow of screen captures) to get a feel for how easy the process has become, from install to first blog post. Update: Dave has some additional remarks. Make sure you also check out how to setup your own update center and write your own updates.

( sept. 19 2007, 03:34:20 PM CEST ) Permalink

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.