A Tangled Web

Fuji Milestone 3 is here!

Hot on the heels of the recently-released GlassFish ESB Release Candidate 1, we continue to move forward on Project Fuji, our exciting new OSGi-based technology which will form the foundation for the next-generation SOA integration platform, GlassFish ESB.next. This project has two sides: one is evolutionary, meaning Adapters (binding components) and Containers (service engines) from the current v2 offerings will run in Fuji, as will applications built using the v2 tooling. The other side is revolutionary, in that lots of innovation is happening in the area of productivity.

Milestone 3 of Project Fuji introduces a cool new lightweight web-based tooling option for composing applications.

From this page you can watch the Fuji Milestone 3 Screencast showing how a simple drag and drop browser interface is used to easily build the same demo that was built in Miletone 2. It is worth noting here that the browser interface creates the same IFL that was written in the IDE for Milestone 2, and that you can checkout the IFL created by the web-based tooling and import the project into your IDE if you wish.

All of this ties right into the goal of Fuji: productivity through flexibility, agility, and ease of use. Here's what this milestone provides in those areas:

• Flexibilty: the tooling choices are expanded with the availability of a browser-based UI
• Agility: there is the new "automatically save and deploy" option in the tooling, which is one step towards our goal of making it very easy to develop, test and correct your application as you go along
• Ease of use: the web-based tooling provides simple visual modeling of enterprise integration patterns with simple properties dialogs to configure them

As always, we welcome feedback on Project Fuji!

Posted at 05:48PM Nov 26, 2008 by mwhite in Open ESB  |  Comments[0]