Laura's Box of Chocolates

GlassFish is now officially launched and Sun has open sourced Java Enterprise Edition  under the CDDL license. This is a tremendous opportunity for open source developers to contribute to the Java EE source. It's like Sun is finally allowing our Java developers to come out and play!  http://GlassFish.dev.java.net.

The media is all a buzz about the move! Here's one story--with intereesting reference to OpenSolaris...

Sun Micro to Publish More Software Source Code
Reuters, Duncan Martell; June 27, 2005
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/27/AR2005062700073.html.

Java development is one of those wonderfully uncontrollable things. There are processes in place, to be sure, but let's face it. It's controlled mayhem. Kinda like a football game --there are rules for having fun.

Java.net is a really cool community for Java development projects. Check it out. Breeze the JCP.org site, and then see how many derivatives of those projects are (or aren't ) happening out at the developers' "playground".  You'll be delighted. And you'll find something to do during tasks...

And we're continuing to fly on the OpenSolaris initiative!  OpenSolaris and Java development?
There's a connection? You bet!

Look for us at JavaOne at booth #800 where you can bring your Java application to the DTrace Challenge...Take a look at how your Java Applications can run faster and jump higher on Solaris 10 (and OpenSolaris!)

Stephen Hahn, Mike Shapiro and Bryan Cantrill are also hosting a Bird of a Feather Session at the Marriott Hotel from 7:30-8:30 in the Golden Gate B1 room. (Must have a JavaOne 2005 conference badge to attend!) 



LKR

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