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ISV & OEMs Webinar Replay: GlassFish- and MySQL-Backed Applications with Netbeans and JRuby-on-Rails

I presented a webinar for ISV and OEMs on "Developing GlassFish- and MySQL-Backed Applications with NetBeans and JRuby-on-Rails" last week.



The slides and a complete recording of the webinar are now available here.

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GlassFish at Silicon Valley Rails Meetup

Want to know how NetBeans and GlassFish provide a better Rails experience ? I'll be speaking at Silicon Valley Rails Meetup on Mar 31st (tomorrow), 7pm, more details here. It will also be a brief preview of my upcoming Rails Conf talk.

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GlassFish Interview with Ian Skerrett at EclipseCon 2009

I had an opportunity to be interviewed by Ian Skerrett at EclipseCon 2009, see the recording below (originally published):


And here is a snapshot:



And then you can always read about Day 3 and Day 2 summary of Eclipse Con. Check out the GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse or screencast #28 if you already have an Eclipse installation.

Also read about GlassFish/Eclipse bundle at InfoQ.

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EclipseCon 2009 Day 3 Summary

Attended the keynote session Building Applications for the Cloud with Amazon at EclipseCon 2009, Day 3 (day 2 here). Here are some brag points about Amazon Web Services gathered from the session:

• 88 million customers, operated in 7 countries, data centers all around the world, core competency externalized for customers, pay-as-you-go model.
• AWS Elastic Compute Cloud has 2 components:
• Compute EC2: Rent by the hour, spin up/dial down based upon the need.
• Storage S3: Access from anywhere with fairly low latency
• Some simple primitives like SimpleDB (database), Simple Queue Service (messaging), Cloud Front (content delivery), Flexible Payments Service (payments), Mechanical Turk (on-demand workforce) on top of Compute & Storage.
• 1/2 millon registered developers on AWS
• 40 billion objects stories in S3 (4 times growth in last year)
• Animoto case study:  Growth from 40 to 5000 instance after launching facebook application
• AWS Principles: Reliable, Scalable, Low-latency, Flexible, Easy-to-use, Inexpensive
• AWS Usage: Web site/Application hosting, Media distribution, Storage, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Financial apps, High-performance computing, Software development/testing
  

• Millions of photos/day
• BIG photos, upto 24MB, 48mpix
• 40+ terapixels processed/day
• Peaky traffic on holidays/weekend (elastic)
• Full HD processing: 1920 x 1080p
• No capital costs, Elastic, Better taxes: No depreciation & amortization
• Totally autonomous, make a decision (roughly once a minute) to turn on/off a worker, takes into consideration approx 50+ inputs such as historical data, type of job, queue status, recent activity
  

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EclipseCon 2009 Day 2 in Pictures

Here are some pictures I took at EclipseCon earlier today:

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GlassFish Beanie, Open Solaris CD, Cool shirts, 2 GB SD Card - Goodies at Sun booth in #eclipsecon

Meet us at the Sun booths in EclipseCon and learn all the goodness about GlassFish, GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse, Open Solaris, and Java FX!

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GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse now available

EclipseCon started earlier today and we are announcing the availbility of GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse.

Eclipse and GlassFish in one single download bundle, available here. Here are simple steps to get you started ...

1. Download the binary for Mac OSX, Windows, and Linux (Open Solaris coming) and install ...
   
   
   
2. Start up the GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse ...
   
   
   
3. GlassFish v2.1 and v3 Prelude are pre-bundled and pre-configured ...
   
   
   
4. Right-click on v2.1 and view the server log in the Console ...
   
   
   
5. Integrated web-based Amin Console, Update Center, View Log File, and many other features ...
   
   
   

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Customers frustrated with Oracle's maintenance and support prices - GlassFish & MySQL can offer relief

Here are some quotes from a recent article talking about Oracle's maintenance and support fees:

Before Oracle acquired BEA earlier this year, the company charged 18% to 20% for support and maintenance. Oracle increased those fees to meet its own structure and also raised list prices on most BEA products.

That didn't sit well.

and


One Java-centric VAR, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said some of his BEA WebLogic customers are moving to alternative application servers just to get away from Oracle.

and

"What company comes in this climate and not only jacks up prices but support prices as well?" asked one frustrated BEA customer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

and

"Many SAP and Oracle customers intend to push back their maintenance fees," he said. "Customers seek an option to just pay for tax and compliance updates without paying for future innovation. They are willing to pay for future modules when that time comes. If they can't access such options, they would prefer third party options like Rimini Street for Oracle [E-Business Suite] and SAP's applications."

Have you been bitten by Oracle's price raise ?

Interested in an industry-grade, highly performant, feature-rich, and open source alternative ?

GlassFish and MySQL together provide an excellent choice - give it a try!

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Developing GlassFish- and MySQL-Backed Applications with Netbeans and JRuby-on-Rails - Free Webinar on Mar 26

This is a re-run of an earlier webinar.

Would you like to know how JRuby,NetBeans, GlassFish, and MySQL can power your Rails applications ?



This informative technical webinar explains the fundamentals of JRuby and how the NetBeans IDE makes developing/debugging/deploying Rails applications on GlassFish quick, fun and cost-effective.

The webinar starts 10am PT on Mar 31st, 2009 and can be accessed from a browser.

Register here.

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GlassFish Workshop @ Milwaukee Trip Report - Met famous Santoor player

Peter and I presented on GlassFish at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee last week. The slides were already made available to the attendees. And since the workshop offered for a charge, the slides will not be shared here :) Let us know if you'd like to conduct a similar workshop in your location.

The workshop ran from 8:30am until 4:00pm. Peter did a wonderful job of demonstrating GlassFish integration in NetBeans and Eclipse, an extensive GlassFish Enterprise Manager demo, Dynamic Languages slides, and multiple other things!

One of the interesting sessions was right after lunch when all the attendees candidly shared experience of their deployment environments and their reason for attending the workshop. The room had 40% NetBeans users and 70% Eclipse users. I've observed a continuous upsurge in the number of NetBeans users in the past few conferences. And it was certainly exciting to know that approx 50% are aware of GlassFish and 1/2 of them are already using for development. Most of them were attending to gain better understanding of GlassFish capabilities and then use it in their production environment. And then there were some who wanted to understand how GlassFish is a superior offering than others.

And guess what - even couple of attendees were already using it in production. Their main reasons for migrating from Tomcat to GlassFish:

• NetBeans integration
• Web-based Admin Console backed by a powerful "asadmin" CLI

We had an extremely embarrassing moment when we approached him asking "Are you Ustaad Zakir Hussein ?". He said "I'm not but he'll be performing on the stage tomorrow". For a moment we thought he was just tricking us but felt terrible when realized that we tagged him as the wrong person. Pandit ji has gained all the reputation one can fathom in the world of music and kept talking to us in a very polite manner. I always wonder there is so much to learn from these luminaries, but we certainly felt awful afterwards and apologized as well.

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TOTD # 76: JRuby 1.2, Rails 2.3, GlassFish Gem 0.9.3, ActiveRecord JDBC Adapter 0.9.1 - can they work together ?

Oh, what a week for the JRuby, Rails, and GlassFish enthusiasts!

JRuby 1.2, Rails 2.3, GlassFish Gem 0.9.3, and ActiveRecord JDBC Adapater 0.9.1 - all released earlier this week. This is an opportune moment to run the integration tests to ensure the latest JRuby and GlassFish versions work nicely with each other.

First, lets see whats there to get exicted in each release.

JRuby 1.2 introduces a new versioning scheme by jumping from 1.1.6 -> 1.2. JRUBY-3649 is an important fix for the Windows users. Improved Ruby 1.9 support, 3-6x faster parsing, and preliminary android support are some other highlights. 1052 revisions and 256 bugfixes since 1.1.6 (89 days ago) means close to 12 revisions / day and 3 bugfixes/day!

Rails 2.3 has a bunch of highlights ranging from Rack integration, nested forms, attributes, and transactions, reconnecting lost MySQL connections, Application controller renamed (make sure to "rake rails:update:action_controller" to update from an older version), faster boot time in dev mode using lazy loading, and many others. The Release Notes provide all the detailed information.

The GlassFish Gem with features like running as daemon,  rake-style configuration of JVM options, ability to "sudo install" gem and run as normal user and multi-level logging are all gearing towards adding more production-quality features. My favorite here is running as daemon since that brings the Gem one step closer to the Rails community.

Lets get back to running our tests #1, #2, #3, #4, and #5 for these released versions.

First, lets unzip JRuby 1.2 and install Rails 2.3, GlassFish Gem 0.9.3, and other gems as:

1. Uncomment the following line from "config/initializers/session_initializers.rb":
   
   

   ActionController::Base.session_store = :active_record_store

2. Do "jruby -S warble config" to generate the template "config/warble.rb", edit it and add the following line:
   
   

   config.webxml.jruby.session_store = 'db'

3. In "config/environment.rb", add the following code:
   
   

   if defined?(JRUBY_VERSION)  # hack to fix jruby-rack's incompatibility with rails edge  module ActionController    module Session      class JavaServletStore        def initialize(app, options={}); end        def call(env); end      end    end  end end

   
   just above the line "Rails::Initializer.run do |config|".
   

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TOTD #75: Getting Started with Grails using GlassFish v3 Embedded

For a change, this blog entry is talking about something that exists for a while now :)

Basically, I wanted to setup a demo environment for Grails and GlassFish v3 Prelude on my machine and so decided to dcument the steps along the process. More detailed steps with explanation are available on GlassFish/Grails Getting Started Wiki.

1. Download and unzip GlassFish v3 Prelude.
2. Run GlassFish Update Center to install the Grails module as shown:
   
   

   ~/demos/glassfishv3-prelude >./bin/updatetool The software needed for this command (updatetool) is not installed. If you choose to install Update Tool, your system will be automatically configured to periodically check for software updates. If you would like to configure the tool to not check for updates, you can override the default behavior via the tool's Preferences facility. When this tool interacts with package repositories, some system information such as your system's IP address and operating system type and version is sent to the repository server. For more information please see: http://wiki.updatecenter.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=UsageMetricsUC2 Once installation is complete you may re-run this command. Would you like to install Update Tool now (y/n): y Install image: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/bin/.. Installing pkg packages. Installing: [pkg:/pkg@1.0.7,0-15.1269:20081008T212532Z, pkg:/python2.4-minimal@2.4.5.0,0-15.1269:20081008T212544Z] Installing updatetool packages. Installing: [pkg:/updatetool@2.0.0,0-15.1269:20081008T212613Z, pkg:/wxpython2.8-minimal@2.8.8,0-15.1269:20081008T212630Z] Registering notifier: Already registered. Initialization complete. Software successfully installed. You may now re-run this command (updatetool).

3. Now run the Update Center again to see a screen as shown below:
   
   

Select "GlassFish support for Grails Framework" and click on "Install" to install the module locally. This creates a new directory "grails" in your GlassFish v3 Prelude directory and install Grails 1.0.4 there.

4. Set environment variables as:
   
   

   ~/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails >export GRAILS_HOME=~/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails ~/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails >export PATH=$GRAILS_HOME/bin:$PATH

   
   
5. Create a template application as:
   
   

   ~/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples >grails create-app bookstore Welcome to Grails 1.0.4 - http://grails.org/ Licensed under Apache Standard License 2.0 Grails home is set to: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails Base Directory: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples Note: No plugin scripts found Running script /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/scripts/CreateApp.groovy Environment set to development     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/src     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/src/java     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/src/groovy     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/grails-app     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/grails-app/controllers     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/grails-app/services     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/grails-app/domain     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/grails-app/taglib     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/grails-app/utils     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/grails-app/views     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/grails-app/views/layouts     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/grails-app/i18n     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/grails-app/conf     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/test     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/test/unit     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/test/integration     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/scripts     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/web-app     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/web-app/js     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/web-app/css     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/web-app/images     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/web-app/META-INF     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/lib     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/grails-app/conf/spring     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/grails-app/conf/hibernate [propertyfile] Creating new property file: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/application.properties      [copy] Copying 2 files to /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore      [copy] Copied 1 empty directory to 1 empty directory under /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore      [copy] Copying 2 files to /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/web-app/WEB-INF      [copy] Copying 5 files to /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/web-app/WEB-INF/tld      [copy] Copying 28 files to /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/web-app      [copy] Copying 18 files to /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/grails-app      [copy] Copying 1 file to /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore      [copy] Copying 1 file to /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore      [copy] Copying 1 file to /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore      [copy] Copying 1 file to /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore [propertyfile] Updating property file: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/application.properties Created Grails Application at /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore

   
   
6. Create a domain specific class as:
   
   

   ~/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore >grails create-domain-class book Welcome to Grails 1.0.4 - http://grails.org/ Licensed under Apache Standard License 2.0 Grails home is set to: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails Base Directory: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore Note: No plugin scripts found Running script /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/scripts/CreateDomainClass.groovy Environment set to development      [copy] Copying 1 file to /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/grails-app/domain Created Domain Class for Book      [copy] Copying 1 file to /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/test/integration Created Tests for Book

   
   
7. Add attributes to the domain class by editing "grails-app/domain/Book.groovy" such that it looks like:
   
   

   class Book {   String title   String author }

   
   
8. Create a new controller as:
   
   

   ~/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore >grails create-controller Book Welcome to Grails 1.0.4 - http://grails.org/ Licensed under Apache Standard License 2.0 Grails home is set to: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails Base Directory: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore Note: No plugin scripts found Running script /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/scripts/CreateController.groovy Environment set to development      [copy] Copying 1 file to /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/grails-app/controllers Created Controller for Book     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/grails-app/views/book      [copy] Copying 1 file to /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/test/integration Created ControllerTests for Book

9. Edit the generated controller in "grails-app/controller/BookController.groovy" to specify scaffold for the domain class. It looks like:
   
   

   class BookController {     def scaffold = Book }

10. Run the app as shown below:
    
    

    ~/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore >grails run-app Welcome to Grails 1.0.4 - http://grails.org/ Licensed under Apache Standard License 2.0 Grails home is set to: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails Base Directory: /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore Note: No plugin scripts found Running script /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/scripts/RunApp.groovy Environment set to development Starting GlassFish embedded server...    [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/.grails/1.0.4/projects/bookstore/classes   [groovyc] Compiling 8 source files to /Users/arungupta/.grails/1.0.4/projects/bookstore/classes     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/arungupta/.grails/1.0.4/projects/bookstore/resources/grails-app/i18n [native2ascii] Converting 11 files from /Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/grails-app/i18n to /Users/arungupta/.grails/1.0.4/projects/bookstore/resources/grails-app/i18n      [copy] Copying 1 file to /Users/arungupta/.grails/1.0.4/projects/bookstore/classes      [copy] Copying 1 file to /Users/arungupta/.grails/1.0.4/projects/bookstore/resources      [copy] Copying 1 file to /Users/arungupta/.grails/1.0.4/projects/bookstore Running Grails application.. Application name : bookstore Web App Root :/Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/web-app web.xml:/Users/arungupta/.grails/1.0.4/projects/bookstore/resources/web.xml Mar 18, 2009 10:19:09 PM CommonClassLoaderManager Skipping creation of CommonClassLoader as there are no libraries available INFO: urls = [] no resource bundle found for version, using default GlassFish version Mar 18, 2009 10:19:09 PM AppServerStartup run INFO: [Thread[GlassFish Kernel Main Thread,5,main]] started Mar 18, 2009 10:19:09 PM com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.GrizzlyProxy start INFO: Listening on port 8080 Mar 18, 2009 10:19:10 PM org.glassfish.admin.mbeanserver.ConnectorStartupService$ConnectorsStarterThread startConnector INFO: Started JMXConnector, JMXService URL = service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://192.168.1.145:8686/jmxrmi Mar 18, 2009 10:19:10 PM com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.adapter.AdminEndpointDecider setGuiContextRoot INFO: Admin Console Adapter: context root: /admin Mar 18, 2009 10:19:10 PM com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.AppServerStartup run INFO: GlassFish v3 Prelude startup time : Embedded(418ms) startup services(887ms) total(1305ms) Mar 18, 2009 10:19:10 PM com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer createHttpListener INFO: Created HTTP listener http-listener-1 on port 8080 Mar 18, 2009 10:19:10 PM com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer createHosts INFO: Created virtual server server Mar 18, 2009 10:19:11 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappLoader setClassPath INFO: Unknown loader org.glassfish.grails.MaskingClassLoader@3b948e75 class org.glassfish.grails.MaskingClassLoader Mar 18, 2009 10:19:12 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappLoader setClassPath INFO: Unknown loader org.glassfish.internal.api.DelegatingClassLoader@191fa2af class org.glassfish.internal.api.DelegatingClassLoader Mar 18, 2009 10:19:12 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO: PWC1412: WebModule[/bookstore] ServletContext.log():Set web app root system property: 'bookstore-development-0.1' = [/Users/arungupta/demos/glassfishv3-prelude/glassfish/grails/samples/bookstore/web-app/] Mar 18, 2009 10:19:12 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO: PWC1412: WebModule[/bookstore] ServletContext.log():Initializing log4j from [file:/Users/arungupta/.grails/1.0.4/projects/bookstore/resources/log4j.properties] Mar 18, 2009 10:19:12 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO: PWC1412: WebModule[/bookstore] ServletContext.log():Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext [0] spring.GrailsWebApplicationContext Refreshing org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.spring.GrailsWebApplicationContext@430b4506: display name [org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.spring.GrailsWebApplicationContext@430b4506]; startup date [Wed Mar 18 22:19:14 PDT 2009]; parent: org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext@6ceb51a8 [0] spring.GrailsWebApplicationContext Bean factory for application context [org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.spring.GrailsWebApplicationContext@430b4506]: org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@1f43243e Mar 18, 2009 10:19:17 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO: PWC1412: WebModule[/bookstore] ServletContext.log():Initializing Spring FrameworkServlet 'grails' Mar 18, 2009 10:19:17 PM com.sun.enterprise.web.WebApplication start INFO: Loading application bookstore at /bookstore Server running. Browse to http://localhost:8080/bookstore

    
    Notice, here GlassFish v3 Embedded Server is used for running the application. It is now accessible at "http://localhost:8080/bookstore" and looks like:
    
    
    
    
11. Clicking on the "BookController" shows:
    
    
    
12. Click on "New Book" to add a new book as:
    
    
13. Each entry can be updated/deleted after clicking on "Create" ...
    
    
    
    or "Book List" as shown below:
    
    
    
    

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TOTD # 74: JRuby and GlassFish Integration Test #5: JRuby 1.2.0 RC2 + Rails 2.x.x + GlassFish + Redmine

TOTD #70, #71, #72, #73 shows four integration tests that can ensure that the latest JRuby and GlassFish versions work nicely with each other.

#70 showed how to create a trivial Rails application and run it using GlassFish Gem. #71 showed how the same application can be deployed on GlassFish v3 Prelude. #72 showed how to deploy the same application on GlassFish v3. #73 showed how to deploy a Rails application as WAR file and use the JDBC connection pooling framework available in GlassFish.

The next set of tests ensure that some commonly used open source Rails applications can be easily run using this setup. The first one is Redmine - 0.8 is the stable release now. Redmine was first tried on GlassFish a few months ago. The steps have simplified since then :)

Lets begin integration test #5.

1. Download Redmine 0.8 ...
   
   

   /samples/jruby/redmine >svn co http://redmine.rubyforge.org/svn/branches/0.8-stable redmine-0.8 A    redmine-0.8/test A    redmine-0.8/test/unit A    redmine-0.8/test/unit/document_test.rb A    redmine-0.8/test/unit/token_test.rb . . . A    redmine-0.8/public/stylesheets/scm.css A    redmine-0.8/public/stylesheets/application.css A    redmine-0.8/public/favicon.ico  U   redmine-0.8 Checked out revision 2580.

2. Copy "config/database.yml.example" to "config/database.yml" and then generate/migrate the database:
   
   

   ~/samples/jruby/redmine/redmine-0.8 >../jruby-1.2.0RC2/bin/jruby -S rake db:create (in /Users/arungupta/samples/jruby/redmine/redmine-0.8) ~/samples/jruby/redmine/redmine-0.8 >../jruby-1.2.0RC2/bin/jruby -S rake db:migrate (in /Users/arungupta/samples/jruby/redmine/redmine-0.8) == 1 Setup: migrating ========================================================= -- create_table("attachments", {:force=>true})    -> 0.0880s -- create_table("auth_sources", {:force=>true})    -> 0.1430s . . . == 100 AddChangesetsUserId: migrating ========================================= -- add_column(:changesets, :user_id, :integer, {:default=>nil})    -> 0.0980s == 100 AddChangesetsUserId: migrated (0.0990s) ================================ == 101 PopulateChangesetsUserId: migrating ==================================== == 101 PopulateChangesetsUserId: migrated (0.0030s) ===========================

   
   
3. Redmine is a Rails 2.1.x application so install Rails 2.1.x using JRuby 1.2 and run the application as:
   
   

   ~/samples/jruby/redmine/redmine-0.8 >../jruby-1.2.0RC2/bin/jruby -S glassfish Mar 13, 2009 11:14:59 AM com.sun.enterprise.glassfish.bootstrap.ASMainStatic findDerbyClient INFO: Cannot find javadb client jar file, jdbc driver not available Mar 13, 2009 11:14:59 AM APIClassLoaderService createAPIClassLoader INFO: APIClassLoader = java.net.URLClassLoader@59fb8de1 . . . Mar 13, 2009 11:15:10 AM com.sun.grizzly.pool.DynamicPool$1 run INFO: New instance created in 10,175 milliseconds Mar 13, 2009 11:15:10 AM com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.AppServerStartup run INFO: GlassFish v3  startup time : Static(356ms) startup services(11456ms) total(11812ms)

   
   Very simple and seamless!
   

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JRuby, Rails, and GlassFish - "Easiest Rails stack in the world"!!!

@grantmichaels is one happy JRuby/Rails/GlassFish user. Here are some of his comments ...

http://twitpic.com/22b5o - the easiest rails stack in the world, jruby 1.2rc, rails 2.3rc, glassfish v3 - (tweeted here)

and

@arungupta had wiped/restated one of my linodes to refront w/ nginx instead of passenger and it took only 1-2 mins to setup jruby/glassfish -  (tweeted here)

and

@arungupta can only have praise for how simple it is to get a working, deployable jruby/rack/glassfish stack for sinatra/rails/ramaze etc - (tweeted here)

and

too easy to run jruby/rack/glassfish behind nginx - going to bed a happy camper tonight ... (tweeted here)

We are very happy to know that users find JRuby and GlassFish easy-to-use for running their Rails applications!

Want to know who else is using GlassFish and Rails together ? Read here.

Did you know that you even deploy your Merb and Grails applications on GlassFish ? glassfish-scripting.dev.java.net provides all the details.

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GlassFish Workshop at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee - Mar 20, 2009

If you are in the neighborhood of University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee then you have an opportunity to get a jump start in GlassFish.



Peter Williams and I will be there on Mar 20 and cover the following topics:

• GlassFish Overview
• Getting Started with GlassFish (Installation, Administration, NetBeans and Eclipse integration)
• Web Services: SOAP and REST
• High Availability, Clustering, and Load Balancing
• Dynamic Languages and Web Frameworks
• Possibly some more

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