V2 is Done!

GlassFish V2 released : A vote of thanks

The GlassFish team is celebrating the release of GlassFish V2 today and I couldn't have picked a better day to create my first blog entry. There were many challenges and road blocks on the way but this awesome team made it happen. Eduardo has written a great blog about the features of GlassFish V2, so I do not need to go there. However, as a vote of thanks to the entire team, I would like to list some of the items that will not be visible to our end users.

• Combined three different releases of Sun Java System Application Server into one release and created a merged code base.
  
• Learned to work effectively in an open source project. Open Functional Specifications, Meetings and Discussions.
• Functional Specifications approved by Sun Internal architecture review board without any "Change Required" or "Change Advised" comments.
• Seemingly endless cycles of longevity test runs where the clock had to be restarted because of a failure on fourth or fifth day of the run.
• Managing day to day engineering life with two bug tracking systems.
• Active participation in helping GlassFish community (user mailing list, forums) while still doing the day job of coding, testing, bug-fixing etc.
  
• Managed creation/testing/shipment of 11 different distributions. Yes, that is right, go ahead and count the distributions on glassfish.java.net, java.sun.com, www.sun.com and www.netbeans.org. This does not include distributions on maven repository.
  

Many thanks and Congratulations for shipping a great product.

Posted at 10:33PM Sep 17, 2007 by kumara in Sun  |