dimanche mars 30, 2008

SDPY - BEA, Oracle, Java EE 5, Matisse, and GlassFish

• A year ago, BEA was joining the Java EE 5 parade.
• Interesting one-year-old read given the BEA acquisition by Oracle (and thus the future of Oracle's appserver) and the progress GlassFish has made in 12 months compared to others.
• I've only been using GlassFish for about 2 years (in its current incarnation). Seems longer than that.
• Three years ago, I was hinting at what NetBeans Matisse could look like. It turned out to be a killer feature.

samedi octobre 13, 2007

Is Oracle's middleware *that* bad?

Just like everyone else, I've been following the ORCL/BEAS announcement and comments here and there. Whether this goes through now, later or not, I obviously believe this creates extra opportunities for GlassFish which I believe is the right product at the right time. But what amazes me the most are the very negative reactions strongly criticizing (to say the least) the Oracle middleware products.

vendredi mars 30, 2007

While Oracle contemplates IBM going after JBoss, GlassFish delivers (and the winner is the developer)

Oracle's Omar Tazi has this blog today about the IBM announcement about JBoss users now being able to use a migration tool to move to Apache's Geronimo. So granted, migration is a cost than can be lowered using such a toolbox (although I'm not sure how much it helps), but the real question is why would you use your freedom to leave? Any worthwhile innovation, technical merits? The final part of Omar's post has a pretty gratuitous comment on GlassFish, stating it's never "... part of these battles" and "no one seems to take it seriously.".

First, Sun Application Server 8.x (GlassFish's ancestor) has enjoyed quite a bit of mission critical enterprise deployments. Some public ones are here, there and there.

Second, GlassFish has had a migration tool for a while, but a tool can only do so much and that's really not the point. For new projects or existing deployments to consider an alternate application server, that product needs to innovate and deliver on standards. I think GlassFish does extremely well in both cases and it's the reason we have people deploying high-volume applications on GlassFish today including wotif.com, one of the largest Australian eCommerce site.

So why are we not "part of these battles"? Probably because the GlassFish community is busy deploying applications, working with other communities, and making the product even better.