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LOTD #18: Campus Ambassadors presenting on GlassFish - France & India

Agnieszka and Julien, the Sun Campus Ambassadors at INSA Lyon presented on GlassFish. Read the complete report here and enjoy a picture:



Here is another report on Hibernate/NetBeans/GlassFish presentation - again at INSA Lyon.

Dwarkanath, the Campus Ambassador at Sastra, presented on GlassFish as part of Student Technology Camp. Read the complete report here and enjoy a picture:



If you are interested in learning/talking about GlassFish at your university, spotlight.dev.java.net/start provides a comprehensive set of slides (with speaker notes), demos, screencasts, training materials and other resources to get you started!

All previous links in this series are archived at LOTD.

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GlassFish setup for 120 programmers in University of Copenhagen

Sidsel Jensen is a Sun Campus Ambassador at University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She configured GlassFish in her department to be used by 120 freshman programmers. Starting with a standard HP DL360 G5 rack server, installing Gentoo Linux, NetBeans for deployment of web apps to a remote GlassFish, creating multiple domains and even performance tuning the Application Server.

Read all the details in Gone Fishing for GlassFish.

Thank you Sidsel for using GlassFish and sharing the steps with rest of the community!

If you are interested in learning/talking about GlassFish at your university, spotlight.dev.java.net/start provides a comprehensive set of slides (with speaker notes), demos, screencasts, training materials and other resources to get you started!

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"Sparks of passion" in the "world of Open Source" - Archana N contributes to GlassFish Documentation

Interested in contributing to open source ? Archana N has a recommendation for you:

Flame the sparks of passion in you,
Experience the world of Open Source anew.
Discover your potentials as they unfold,
Venture to contribute in the technologies untold.

Archana N is an ex-Sun Campus Ambassador from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India. Recently she contributed on how to secure the existing EJB converter example from the Java EE tutorial using mutual authentication. She continue to work on developing RESTful web services using Project Jersey as her next contribution for GlassFish documentation.

The GlassFish Documentation team published her interview to recognize the efforts, read it here.

Thank you Archana for your contribution to GlassFish, keep the passion alive!

If you are interested in learning/talking about GlassFish at your university, spotlight.dev.java.net/start provides a comprehensive set of slides (with speaker notes), demos, screencasts, training materials and other resources to get you started!

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Free GlassFish Webinar for Students at OSUM

Are you a student and would like to learn why GlassFish is meant for you ?



Create/join a student community at osum.sun.com and attend the GlassFish Webinar. This webinar will introduce GlassFish application server, show multiple demos that can be used to impress your colleagues/professors, and answer your questions around GlassFish.

The coordinates are:

Feb 3, 2009, 8:30am PT
Webinar Invite

This webinar will be conducted using Elluminate Live! You will be able to listen to live audio via your computer speakers or ear phones and be able to ask questions using chat/text.

Learn more about OSUM (pronounced "awesome") here. Create your OSUM today and join over 900 student clubs from over 80 countries!

If you are interested in talking about GlassFish, spotlight.dev.java.net/start provides a comprehensive set of slides (with speaker notes), demos, screencasts, training materials and other resources to get you started!

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GlassFish in CEUI and Campus Party

As reported earlier, Alan Vargas, the Sun Campus Ambassador at CEUI (Centro Universitario de Ixltahuaca) presented on GlassFish. The message of "GlassFish v2 - Fast, Easy, and Reliable" and "GlassFish v3 - Modular, Embeddable, and Extensible" was clearly delivered in the talk.

Alan has published several useful blogs on GlassFish (in Spanish and English) recently:

• Plática de Glassfish en CEUI (GlassFish chat in CEUI)
• Historia de Glassfish (History of GlassFish)
• Qué es Glassfish? (What is GlassFish ?)
• Running Glassfish v2 UR2 on Windows 7
  
• Corriendo Glassfish v2 UR2 en Windows 7

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GlassFish @ University of Ixtlahuaca, Mexico - Coming Up on Jan 26!

Learn about GlassFish at Centro Universitario de Ixtlahuaca OSUM!

Date: Jan 26, 2009 Time: 10am-12pm PT Language: Spanish Sign up here!

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OSUM - Open Source University Meetup - awesome venue for students!

If your university is not participating in the Sun Campus Ambassador program, you can always create an Open Source University Meetup (OSUM, pronounced "awesome") community. Sun Microsystems offers you the complete range of Open Source software - OpenSolaris, OpenOffice, NetBeans, GlassFish, MySQL, and many others.

OSUM provides an opportunity to create a student club and:

    * LEARN about Open Source Technologies and how they are opening up new career opportunities for students
    * ACCESS free online web courses, webinars, tutorials and other resources to prepare for career enhancing certifications
    * SHARE your technical knowledge with other students around the world virtually and on campus
    * COLLABORATE with a global community of students via forum, campus events, webinars, etc.
    * CONNECT and make friends with students around the world who are committed to Open Source just like you!

Create your OSUM today and join over 900 student clubs from over 80 countries!

If you are interested in talking about GlassFish, spotlight.dev.java.net/start provides a comprehensive set of slides (with speaker notes), demos, screencasts, training materials and other resources to get you started!

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GlassFish @ Manipal Institute of Technology, India - Go Campus Ambassadors!

Here is yet another (slightly dated) contribution by Vasudha Amrit on GlassFish, Campus Ambassador from Manipal Institue of Technology, India.

She arranged a GlassFish talk in her campus and one of the GlassFish team member delivered the talk (while on a personal visit :)! The blog report provide details. The event was a huge success with 482 attendees. Here is an excerpt from the blog:

we had to put up extra chairs all around the place and even then people kept coming, so much so that we had to send people back. Some people even volunteered to sit on the floor. There were a total of 482 students, HODs and faculties from four departments and the associate director ( phew!!!!! :P )attending the talk when we did a head count and that is not counting people who had gone back.

And some pictures (more in the original blog):

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GlassFish @ University of Essex and Frankfurt - Go Campus Ambassadors!

This blog highlights couple of contributions by Campus Ambassadors (CA) from University of Essex and Frankfurt towards GlassFish.

Jenya Kovalchuk (Campus Ambassador in the University of Essex, UK) gave a talk on GlassFish. The pre- and post-conditions of talk are really compelling:

Igor Geier from University of Frankfurt developed a A MySQL GlassFish application. The application is a work-in-progress but it sure will show the ease-of-use of GlassFish and tight integration with NetBeans.

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GlassFish and MySQL Student Contest - Winners announced

GlassFish and MySQL student contest winners are announced!

Kolli Bharath from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India (review, project) and Tomas Augusto Muller, Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil (review, project) won the grand prize of $500 each. There are 7 second prize winners of $250 each.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Meet some of the contest participants here, here, here, and here.

There were lots of great entries and picking one was a tough decision. But luckily the process was simple and clearly defined for all the judges. Each submission was assigned numbers between 1-100 in 8 pre-defined criteria and then a winner was picked. Now, don't ask us about the total marks for each entry or the winning margin ;)

Thanks to all the judges for reviewing the entries!

Here are some guidelines I followed during the review:

• I looked at the blog and project website, how do I get started ?
• Is the project site well structured, with links to code, docs, etc ?
• Is there an installation/user manual ?
• Is the application a stereotype
• Is testing (unit, integration, stress, reliability, performance and others) integral part of the project ?
• Is it a simple JSP/Servlet application or any creative use of GlassFish ? For example, is the participant using Web services, Grizzly Comet, Rails, Grails, Admin console, Monitoring or any such features.
• Any usability or functionality bugs filed during project development ?
• How useful is the application in context ?
• Any NetBeans- or Eclipse-GlassFish integration features used ?

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LOTD #8: sun.com/students launched: Everything about Sun and Students

sun.com/students is one-stop for all students interested in Sun Microsystems.

It has content related to all students:

• Student Lounge where students can hang out (facebook, friendfeed, flickr and others)
• Student Blogs
• OSUM community (Open Source University Meetup, pronounced "awesome")
• Campus Ambassadors

• GlassFish and MySQL Contest - 3 steps to earn $500
• spotlight.dev.java.net - one-stop resource for all students interested in GlassFish

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GlassFish and MySQL Student Contest - 3 steps to earn $500

Are you a student and like to earn $500 ? Here are three steps:

• Download GlassFish v2 UR2 and MySQL 5.1 Community Edition
• Create a cool open-source web application using them
• Write a review and submit your URL

• NetBeans IDE allows you to create several Java EE modules like JSP, Servlets, Java Persistence Units, Enterprise Java Beans, Java Server Faces and Web services seamlessly and deploy them directly on GlassFish.
• Rails and Grails applications can be deployed on GlassFish v2 UR2 as WAR files.
• Metro is an extensible and highly performant Web services stack in GlassFish. New functionality can be easily added by creating and configuring your pipes.

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Spotlight - GlassFish Resources for Education Community

Are you a student interested in demonstrating the diverse and powerful features of GlassFish ?
Are you a professor who would like to teach GlassFish in your curriculum ?
Do you train other people in enterprise technology ?
Are you involved in education community in any manner ?

If the answer to any of the above questions is Yes, then spotlight.dev.java.net is onestop that provides a list of GlassFish resources for you. It provides a comprehensive list of resources about video Tutorials, Blogs, Demos, Training courses and other information.

Do you have your favorite slide deck to share ?
Do you have a demo to share ?
What additional demos/resources would you like from us ?

Let us know by sending an email to users@spotlight.dev.java.net and we'll shine the spotlight on you!

You can find more detailed information Sun's offering for students @ Students Portal.

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