Miles to go ...
Arun Gupta is a GlassFish Evangelist focusing on Web Tier at Sun. He was the spec lead for APIs in the Java platform, committer in multiple Open Source projects, participated in standard bodies and contributed to Java EE and SE releases.
Tuesday June 30, 2009
FISL 2009 wrapped up over the weekend. Even though the
conference officially ended on Saturday but the connections made there
will certainly allow us to continue all the great momentum. The
conference celebrates open source and it was certainly great to see
Federal Government and Banks with their booths in the exhibitor halls.
The visit by Brazilian President Lula certainly highlights the
importance of this conference to the local community. There were booths
from Debian, Firefox, Ubuntu and other major open source softwares.
Some commercial vendors had a booth as well and of course Sun
Microsystems had a big presence with GlassFish,
Open Solaris, NetBeans, MySQL and other offerings.
I delivered 3 talks and participated in 1 talk show:
- Java EE 6 (slides) & Enterprise Features of GlassFish (slides)
- Creating powerful web applications using GlassFish, MySQL and NetBeans/Eclipse slides
- Continuous Integration using Hudson (slides)
- Simon Phipps Talk Show
Click on the collage to see a larger version. The complete photo album is available at:
Sunday June 28, 2009
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 ?
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Saturday June 27, 2009
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 ?
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FISL 2009 Day 3 in Pictures & Videos
Continuing from Day
1 and 2
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I participated in Simon
Phipps Talk Show on GlassFish
and that was fun :) The usual points:
- ~50% of the projects currently target GlassFish and that the number jumps to 73% when only counting new projects (according to Ohloh reports)
- Best price/performance, First to be Java EE 5 compliance and Most downloaded application server
- The GlassFish download numbers are much higher than JBoss.
- Brazilian community loves GlassFish over JBoss
I also delivered the Hudson talk on behalf of Fabiane Nardon. Hudson is an open source Continuous Integration system that is highly extensible and has a very healthy ecosystem around it. The slides are available here and can also be viewed below:
Now pics from the day ...
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The Brazilian President Lula visited the pavilion but I left early so never got to see him ;-)
The speaker's dinner at 35CTG Churrascaria was nothing special but there were some real good live performances made the whole thing worthwhile. Enjoy it below:
And the evolving album:
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 over JBoss - Find out why!
Vinicius
Senger, founder of Globalcode
- a Java training/consulting company in Brazil, is running supercrud.com on GlassFish instead of
JBoss.
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 over JBoss:
- 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
- Faster
- More modular
- Faster redeployment
- Better integration with NetBeans/Eclipse
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 ...
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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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Thursday June 25, 2009
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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Running inside Parque Moinhos de Vento, Porto Alegre
I ran 10 laps in Parque
Moinhos de Vento and it felt good :)
After strength training for past 2 days at the hotel, felt nice to run
outside.
Anybody interested in running together until Sunday ?
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Wednesday June 24, 2009
I presented on "Creating
powerful web applications using GlassFish, MySQL and NetBeans/Eclipse"
as the first talk of FISL 10 yesterday. The room was only partial full
being the first talk of FISL but got packed towards the middle so that
was exciting. The slides are available here.
The key message is that NetBeans
and Eclipse
provide a seamless development/deployment environment for GlassFish.
The several demos shown in the talk are explained at:
- CRUD operations using NetBeans, JPA and MySQL
- Publish MySQL Table as a RESTful Web service
- Develop, Deploy and Debug Rails Application on GlassFish using NetBeans
- GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse
- End-to-end problem solving using GlassFish v3 + MySQL DTrace probes
- GlassFish Price/Performance Advantage
The soccer balls at the Sun booth in the pavilion were quite a hit as evident by the video below:
Come by again at Sun booth until the end of conference to get one for yourself :)
There were booths from Debian, Gnome, Firefox, Fedora and a host of other open source projects. There were community booths from local Java User Groups, Linux User Group, Open Solaris User Group and similar efforts. Some government and financial companies that heavily use/promote open source products were also present. And then there were other commercial vendors as well!
Some attendees were playing musical instruments to the local tunes which added to the festive atmosphere in the exhibitor floor. Enjoy the video below:
The day ended with great food at Na Brasa Churrascaria, love the caipirinhas!
Here are some pictures from Day 1:
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This is the 10th anniversary of FISL and so here is the timline over the past years as shown in the exhibitor pavilion:
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And the evolving album:
Tuesday June 23, 2009
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I, along with several other speakers, presented at Javali (an ancillary
event of FISL)
earlier today.
The event was sponsored by Sun Microsystems. Many thanks to Sou Java
and RS JUG for
organizing the event and thanks to Serpro for
hosting the event. There were several speakers from different companies making the event a good mix. |
I presented on Java EE 6, showed GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse and gave a brief overview of some of the enterprise features of GlassFish.
The Java EE 6 focuses on making the platform more powerful and adding more flexibility. The power is added by revamping several existing specifications such as Servlet 3.0 and Java Server Faces 2.0. The flexibility is incoporated by several mechanisms. The first is the ability to define a profile targeted at a particular bundle of technologies, such as Web profile defined by the JSR 316 EG (more details). Secondly, some of the existing specifications that are not widely used, such as JAX-RPC or JAXR, now can be pruned from the platform. And lastly third-party libraries can be easily registered using "web-fragment.xml" (more details). All these together make the entire platform really powerful and flexible.
The GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse provide an integrated bundle based on Eclipse Ganymede 3.4.2 with GlassFish v2.1 and v3 integrated and pre-configured. These bits can also be installed on Eclipse Galileo (to be released soon) as a separate plugin. The features like Deploy-on-save and Session-preservation boosts the productivity tremendously allowing the developer to focus on business logic. Screencast #28 shows more details how to easily get started.
The enterprise features of GlassFish covered were:
- SOAP & RESTful Web services
- Dynamic Languages & Web Frameworks
- GlassFish High Availability & Clustering
- GlassFish Enterprise Manager
Brian Leonard's talk on "Developing beyond localhost" showed practical strategies of taking an application developed on the localhost and ensuring it works in the deployed environment. The basic strategy was WOTE (Write Once Test Everywhere) for any application developed within an IDE. He showed how to create a JNLP of a web application and deploy on GlassFish Web Stack. Some of the common mistakes like local filesystem URLs and database URLs can be easily diagnosed by testing the application using multiple Virtual Box images.
Roger Brinkley's talk on Mobile and Embedded is always fun. He basically talked about updates happened within that community in past one year. I caught up only during the last part where he showed a demo of Sensor Motor Gloves created by the community, the video is available below:
Fabiane's talk on Continuous Integration with Hudson showed how to setup and configure Hudson. The cool part was the sunspot integration where a build failure lights up the LEDs on a sunspot device.
Pat Patterson's talk on "Securing RESTful Web services using Open SSO" gave an overview of the Open SSO community. He then explained the purpose of OAuth and how it's integrated in OpenSSO using Jersey extensions.
Met Campus Ambassadors from Porto Alegre and Sao Paolo which is always refreshing.
Talked to Vinicius Senger who is a Java EE architect and runs supercrud.com. This website allows you to create an online application domain model and then generate templates for different technologies such as Java Server Faces, JPA, Spring/Hibernate, and others. The website is running on GlassFish and more details on why he picked GlassFish instead of JBoss will be available in a formal GlassFish story, thanks Vinicius! I recorded a short interview that will be published this week as well.
There were other Portuguese speakers who were able to connect with the audience much better ;-)
Bruno and Mauricio played an excellent role of translating from English -> Portuguese for the local audience, thanks!
The day ended with a great pizza party with interesting toppings like corn/onion, banana, chocolate and others too :)
Here are some pictures from the past couple of days:
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And the evolving album:
Friday June 19, 2009
I received the following photographs from a GlassFish
Fan (aka Ben Leadholm) in Minnesota.
And here is a picture of his daughter, Rachel, sporting the fancy GlassFish tattoo:
Thanks Ben and Rachel for promoting/using GlassFish and sharing the
pictures!
Do you have any similar pictures ? Send me an email arun dot gupta at
sun dot com and will be happy to share them with others.
The GlassFish number
plates and Tattoos (and much more) were distributed at the recently
concluded JavaOne 2009.
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Wednesday June 17, 2009
GlassFish swimming to FISL, Brazil
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FISL stands for "Forum Internacional Software Livre" in
the Portuguese language and means "International Free Software Forum"
in the English language. The punch line is "A technologia que liberta"
and means "The technology that liberates". This is the biggest event about free software in America and was attended by 7417 participants in 2008. |
Just like "Freedom of Speech" is a basic human right, "Freedom of Software" is a basic right for the technology evolution. GlassFish gives you the freedom:
- To Pick your own framework: Java EE, Ruby-on-Rails, Python/Django, Groovy/Grails, or any other
- Choose your IDE: NetBeans, Eclipse, IntelliJ and others.
- Over properietary Application Servers by providing highly reliable and production quality features like
- Clustering/Load balancing
- Secure, Reliable, and Transactional, and .NET-interoperable Web services stack (Metro)
- Easy-to-use web-based administration
console along with a powerful CLI
- Offers dual open-source license (CDDL or GPL v2 w/ CPE)
Together, GlassFish, NetBeans/Eclipse, and MySQL liberates you from the vendor lock-in by offering you a compelling choice.
At FISL 10, learn how GlassFish, NetBeans/Eclipse, and MySQL provide a powerful feature-rich yet easy to use platform for developing/deploying your web applications. The complete details about the session are available here. I plan to show multiple demos during the talk that you may find useful in your regular work.
Where ? Porto Alegre, Brazil
When ? Jun 24-27, 2009
Click on the map below for coordinates of the venue:
Join the Facebook Group or follow on Twitter @fisl10.
Close to 6000 attendees have registered for FISL so far and am definitely looking forward to feel/enjoy the Brazilian spirit.
To Brazil, Capirinhas, Guaranas, Churascarias, Beaches ... La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La
Drop a comment if you are interested in a meal or run together :)
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