Arun Gupta, Miles to go ...

GlassFish Fans in Minnesota

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.

Technorati: conf javaone glassfish minnesota

Posted by Arun Gupta in General  |  Comments[0]

Cognizant likes Simplicity, Easy management, and Lightweightness of GlassFish

Cognizant is system integrator combining onsite/offshore delivery model to achieve customer satisfaction. They've started using GlassFish within their internal "Cognizant Java Community" and also recommeding it to their clients as opposed to "established App Servers".

Posted by Arun Gupta in General  |  Comments[1]

OKTECH - Hungarian consulting company using GlassFish for 4 years

OKTECH is a Hungarian consuting company and one of the earliest adopters of GlassFish. They use it for their internal company related information and for external production with US business as well.

Posted by Arun Gupta in General  |  Comments[2]

University of Utah - Ported 60 applications from Weblogic to GlassFish

The University of Utah ported 60 applications from Weblogic to GlassFish and very happy with it. They like the clustering and failover capability, integrated NetBeans development environment, and are using EJBs, Java Server Faces and a slew of other technologies.

Posted by Arun Gupta in General  |  Comments[3]

OPIN Systems - Financial Application using JRuby-on-Rails on GlassFish

OPIN Systems has chosen JRuby, Rails, and GlassFish for a customer-facing financial application. Why ? "Easy to setup Rails application and add more intense logic in JRuby calls"

Learn more about it in this video:



Thanks to Ben Leadholm for the quick story! Check out other GlassFish Production Stories.

Check out Ben's "Dude, Where's my pass ?" entry:


Read several other Rails/GlassFish success stories.

Technorati: conf javaone sanfrancisco glassfish rubyonrails stories

Posted by Arun Gupta in General  |  Comments[1]

Fundamo: Call Banking System using Sun "all the way through", including GlassFish

Fundamo provides a mobile financial services platform using a full Sun stack - hardware, operating system, and GlassFish. They found GlassFish has more features and better support than other open source App Servers. And it's not as big as other competitors.

Posted by Arun Gupta in General  |  Comments[0]

JavaOne 2009 Recap in pictures and videos

A collage of all the pictures taken during JavaOne 2009:



And the complete photo album at:



A short picture summary is available in Day 1, 2 and 3 blogs.

And check out the 36 one minute (more or less) interviews from the GlassFish Portfolio team in this playlist:



And then six stories from the real users of GlassFish at javaone+stories. Only one has been published so far and others (already scheduled) will appear in the days to come.

Technorati: conf javaone sanfrancisco

Posted by Arun Gupta in General  |  Comments[1]

AGFA Healthcare - Using GlassFish for Field Force Automation, Time Registration, SAP Integration

Here are some reasons why AGFA Healthcare choose GlassFish for their Field Force Automation, Time Registration and SAP integration:

• 100% uptime for past 1.5 years with 8 cluster nodes
• GlassFish's importance in this economy
• Simple and elegant administrative console
• High availability, ease-of-use, and something that works
  

Posted by Arun Gupta in General  |  Comments[1]

JVB #36: Roger Kitain on GlassFish at JavaOne 2009

Learn what Roger Kitain will be doing at JavaOne 2009.


His session details are available here.

All previous entries are tagged javaone+vidblog. And all the videos are available in the following playlist:


Hope you had a great JavaOne!

Technorati: conf javaone vidblog sanfrancisco glassfish portfolio

Posted by Arun Gupta in General  |  Comments[0]

JVB #35: Sudhir Prabhu on GlassFish at JavaOne 2009

Learn what Sudhir Prabhu did at JavaOne 2009.


His hands-on-lab details are available here.

All previous entries are tagged javaone+vidblog.

Technorati: conf javaone vidblog sanfrancisco glassfish portfolio

Posted by Arun Gupta in General  |  Comments[0]

JVB #34: Marc Hadley on GlassFish at JavaOne 2009

Learn what Marc Hadley did at JavaOne 2009.


Her session details are available here and here.

All previous entries are tagged javaone+vidblog.

Technorati: conf javaone vidblog sanfrancisco glassfish portfolio

Posted by Arun Gupta in General  |  Comments[0]

JVB #33: Andreas Egloff on GlassFish at JavaOne 2009

Learn what Andreas Egloff did at JavaOne 2009.


His session details are available here.

All previous entries are tagged javaone+vidblog.

Technorati: conf javaone vidblog sanfrancisco glassfish portfolio

Posted by Arun Gupta in General  |  Comments[0]

JavaOne 2009 Day 3 in Pictures

Posted by Arun Gupta in General  |  Comments[0]

Garmin nuvi 200w and Canon SD 770 Winners at JavaOne GlassFish Booth - Jun 3, 2009

We are giving out more prizes today in the JavaOne Pavilion!

Help us fill the survey at tinyurl.com/j1survey and there are couple of drawings:

• 1pm at the GlassFish Enteprise Server Booth (#550) in the Pavilion
• 8:30pm at GlassFish BoF

Posted by Arun Gupta in General  |  Comments[0]

JavaOne 2009 Day 2 in Pictures

Here are some pictures from JavaOne 2009 Day 2 ...

Posted by Arun Gupta in General  |  Comments[0]