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http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/date/20090626 Friday June 26, 2009

Digital TV-based Banking using GlassFish, NetBeans and MySQL - Ginga community in Brazil


Learn how GlassFish and NetBeans helped Ginga community to build a TV Banking application in Brazil. See a live demo of the product, it's really exciting!

Why GlassFish ? - They love how NetBeans tooling completely hides the complexity of what's happening underneath and the ease-of-use with GlassFish.


Thanks Hugo Lavalle for the interview and good luck with your product!

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Porto Alegre - I shoot you, you shoot me


The picture was taken at FISL 10, Porto Alegre, Brazil.



Any guess who's behind the camera ?

Similar blog entries are here.

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supercrud.com in Brazil picked GlassFish - Find out why!


Vinicius Senger, founder of Globalcode - a Java training/consulting company in Brazil, is running supercrud.com on GlassFish.

He is a Java EE architect, consultant, trainer, and do Java EE related research as well. He is a JSF 2 Expert Group member, find NetBeans and GlassFish integration amazing and feels its getting better all the time. He runs supercrud.com on GlassFish. The reasons to pick GlassFish:

  • Much easier to install
  • Easy to manage (data sources, EJBs, redeployments) using web-based administration console
  • Don't use clustering today but know it's another good feature
He is seeing lot of Brazilian companies and developers moving to GlassFish because it's
  • Faster
  • More modular
  • Faster redeployment
  • Better integration with NetBeans/Eclipse
Hear the short interview recorded at FISL earlier this week:



A formal production story will be published soon as well. Thanks Vinicius for the interview!

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FISL Day 2 in Pictures & Videos


Continuing from FISL Day 1 ...


Here is a video of the ever excited Brazilian community for soccer balls in the pavilion:


If you didn't get a soccer ball, come by at the Sun booth tomorrow and make sure to practice like the folks below:


The day ended with a nice soccer match between Internacional and LDU Quito from Ecuador at Beira Rio stadium. Feel the enthusiasm in the video below:


We kept waiting for Internacional to score but guess it was not there day and they lost 1-0 :(

On to Day 3 in couple of hours ....

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