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Java EE 6 & GlassFish v3 swimming to Amsterdam - JFall 2009

JFall is the annual conference of NL JUG - the 11 year old JUG of Netherlands. This year its happening on Nov 11 at SPANT! I'll be speaking on Java EE 6 & GlassFish v3 (14:20 - 15:10) there and have lots of cool demos to show through out the talk. And also stay tuned for a brand new demo that shows JavaFX and GlassFish v3 integration. With over 1000 attendees, the conference is already sold out so if you have not registered yet then you have to wait until next year :)

Here is the list of several Sun sessions:

• Writing Asynchronous Web Application (Comet) using the Atmosphere Framework
• Event driven Architecture with Glassfish ESB
• Keynote - Enterprise 2.0: New Technologies, Innovations and Communities
• JavaFX: Building Real World Applications
• JDK7: What's In and What's Not
• Java and JavaFX Technology and the Nintendo Wiimote: Just How Much Fun Can You Have?
• Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3: Paving the path for future

Here are the sessions that I'd like to attend:

• 9:00 0 -9:15: Opening
• 9:15 - 10:00: Keynote - Enterprise 2.0: New Technologies, Innovations and Communities
• 10:25-11:15
  • Migrating your Java EE 5 applications to Java EE 6
  • Writing Asynchronous Web Application (Comet) using the Atmosphere Framework
• 11:20 - 12:10 Scaling Out with Hadoop and NoSql
• 14:20 - 15:10: Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3: Paving the path for future (of course this one :)
• 15:45 - 16:35:
  • The future of Enterprise Dependency Injection - JSR 299
  • JDK7: What's In and What's Not
• 16:40 - 17:30:
  •  Eclipse e4: a new beginning
  • Java and JavaFX Technology and the Nintendo Wiimote: Just How Much Fun Can You Have?

Most of the sessions are in Dutch so may have to fall back on English speaking sessions :(

Here are some quick data points ...

• Complete list of sessions and schedule
• Archive of previous conferences: JFall 2004, JFall 2005, JFall 2006, JFall 2007, JFall 2008
• Archive of all NL JUG Events

Also trying to arrange a slot in the local Amsterdam Ruby Meetup to talk about JRuby/Rails/GlassFish, lets see if it works out. Otherwise we might somewhere in the hotel lobby :)

And as always, I'm looking for running trails in Amsterdam & Bussum. Any body interested in running together ?

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Larry Ellison to Sun Customers – “We’re in it to win it”

Here is an advertisement from today's (Sep 10, 2001) Wall Street Journal (also here)

Also find out why Oracle + Sun is faster than IBM on Oct 14.

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GlassFish in Twitterverse - Oracle buying Sun

Oracle has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Sun for $9.50 per share in cash. Read more details in Sun's PR and Oracle's PR.

Here are some tweets captured from the Twitterverse on GlassFish:



























And there is certainly buzz at MySQL Users Conference about the announcement. Only time will tell the future and fate of this blog!

It seems there is only one other entry tagged Oracle on this blog ;-)

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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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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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FREE GlassFish Bootcamp - Mar 10, 2009, Santa Clara

Would you like to learn how to run your web apps on GlassFish - be they Java EE or Rails or Grails ?
How to manage/monitor them using the powerful web-based console and asadmin CLI ?
How to create SOAP-based or RESTful Web services and host them on GlassFish ?
How to setup GlassFish Clustering/High Availability and enable session-replication for your web apps ?
How to migrate your apps from other application servers to GlassFish ?

The GlassFish team is conducting a free bootcamp in Sun's Santa Clara campus on Mar 10, 2009. This will be a mix of presentations and hands-on-lab where you'll gather all the practical knowledge and tips and tricks for your applications. A tentative agenda is:

• GlassFish Overview (Preso)
• Management and Monitoring (Preso + Hands On)
• Web Services: SOAP + REST (Preso + Hands On)
• Lunch w/ GlassFish Enterpise Team (Preso)
• Dynamic Langauges and Frameworks (Preso + Hands On)
• High Availability/Clustering/Load Balancing (Preso + Hands On)
• Migration to GlassFish (Preso)
  

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Sun Tech Days 2009, Hyderabad - Technology meets fashion and entertainment

A fashion show was organized for Sun Tech Days Hyderabad attendees. Check out some of the videos:


And some dance performances as well ..


And some more ...


And you can of course see the Tech Days team on the ramp ...



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Rails/Merb and GlassFish at Super Happy Dev House 30

Supper Happy Dev House is "a premier monthly hackathon event that combines serious and not-so-serious productivity with a fun and exciting party atmosphere."

• JRuby - "It's just Ruby!" with passing over 55,000 compliance tests and continuous performance improvements.
• NetBeans - light-weight and intuitive IDE for Rails development/deployment
• GlassFish - robust deployment environment for Rails/Merb applications

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Relevance of Open Source during Financial Crisis - GlassFish, MySQL, OpenSolaris, VirtualBox, NetBeans, ...

CIO published an article highlighting 5 cheap (or free) software that can be afforded during financial crisis. Their recommendations are:

• Open Office ($0) instead of Microsoft Office ($110 for basic version)
• Mozilla Thunderbird ($0) instead of Microsoft Outlook (lots of security issues)
• GnuCash ($0) instead of Quicken ($30 for starter edition)
• Alfresco ($0) instead of Sharepoint ($5K for five licenses)
• Linux instead of Windows (non-zero cost, always virus-prone ;)

• GlassFish instead of Oracle Weblogic or IBM Websphere
• MySQL instead of Oracle Enterprise or IBM DB2
• OpenSolaris instead of Windows
• NetBeans instead of IntelliJ
• VirtualBox instead of VM Ware or any other virtualization software
• and many more here

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FREE Sun Student Technology Camp - Oct 24, 2008

Sun Student Technology Camp is an effort to educate students about what is going on in the world of technology. If you are a student, from middle school on up through university-level, then this is for you! There are presentations, demos, hands-on activities on the latest and most innovative technology from resident technology geeks.

The topic for upcoming camp is Open Source. Find out how Open Source will expand your opportunity, increase flexibility, and foster innovation for their future. There will also be a sneak peek on cool technology that has been brewing in SunLabs.

Did I mention these events are FREE ? :)

Hurry- seating is limited! Register today!

Here are the key details:

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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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Mango* - King of FOSS Offerings

If there is one thing that I terribly miss after moving to this country, that would be the variety of Mangoes in India. I've been asked at the United States Customs if I'm importing any mangoes. The fruit's flavor, fragrance and color is just great so I don't blame them at all. There is even International Mango Festival conducted every year since 1987 in Delhi. The festival features more than 550 varieties for visitors to view and taste.

I can talk at lengths about the fruit Mango but this entry is about Mango*. So what is it ?

Project mango* is an initiative to promote the use of Sun's (Free Open Source Software) FOSS stack in the enterprise middleware market. Mango* is an acronym which stands for My SQL And Netbeans Glassfish Open*...(OpenESB or OpenSSO or OpenPortal or OpenSolaris...)

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FREE Ticket to Rails Conf Europe 2008

Are you a Start up company interested in jump starting and meets the following criteria ?

In business six years or less A maximum of 150 employees, including any affiliates Based in a country in which the program is offered A verifiable company presence (website, company profile, etc.) Agree to accept the program's terms and conditions

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