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Rick Ross and GlassFish, better late than never!

JavaLobby's Rick Ross finaly got it! GlassFish aka Sun Java System Application Server 9 Platform Edition is an Open Source application server that will be fully compatible with the Java EE 5 specification! Here is a (nice) abstract of Rick Ross editorial from this week JL's newsletter (their legal fine print allow me to share it with my friends!). People who swim with Glass Fishes don't fear the sharks Okay, okay, so perhaps I am a little bit slow to catch on. Sun did something absolutely HUGE at JavaOne, but I missed the significance of it, and I may not be the only one who did. What did they do, you ask? They placed the entire source code from which they build Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) under an OSI-approved open source license called the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL.) That's right, they open sourced the foundation code from which all J2EE is built! I vaguely remember sitting in one of the keynotes and hearing that Sun was open sourcing their app server, which didn't really seem like such big news. What I overlooked is the minor fact that this includes the source code for the Reference Implementation of Java EE (the new moniker of J2EE, kinda like Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, Diddy.) You can download the whole thing from CVS on java.net right now it's called Project GlassFish, and I now realize it was probably the biggest thing that happened at JavaOne. The source code of Java EE is now genuinely open, how did I miss that!? Kudos to Sun for taking this big step. Well done! I guess it wasn't said clearly enough at JavaOne and afterwards through blogs and so on?! Anyway, it is better late than never. It is also great that people like Rick Ross are starting to pass, to the community, the message about GlassFish! Oh and by the way, I have also heard that some people were confused and mixing GlassFish and Looking Glass, 2 different Open Sources projects from Sun that only have Java and a Glass in common! Tags: OSS Java GlassFish JavaLobby ( oct. 05 2005, 02:39:05 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [0]