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Wednesday Aug 06, 2008

Moving on .....

Although this is a bit late announcement... I have decided to move on.

July 25th 2008 was my last day at Sun.  Sun is a great place to work.  Well, you may ask why I am leaving !!

No big reason for the move.  I am just crazy :)  Just want to tryout something different.

I worked here for about 8 years.  Over the time, I learned lot of things.  Started my career here as an engineer, worked with great set of minds.  Went out and got my MBA from Babson, while working here.  Switched to more of a business role (Product Management).  Worked with some of the great marketers in the company.  It was an interesting and eventful ride for the past 8 years.....

This is going to be my last post on Sun's blogger.  Going forward I will be keeping my web logs under 

http://prakash-aradhya.blogspot.com

See you there ...........

Prakash


Wednesday Jul 02, 2008

All you can use Software for one fixed price !!!! GlassFish + MySQL

All you can eat buffet...wait did I say 'eat', sorry, meant to say 'use'...

Yes, Sun announced unlimited GlassFish and MySQL Offering To Provide Customers With Unlimited Deployments.

Thats exciting.  You can read the press release here

Interested ???  Find out more what this means here

If you have less than 1000 employees in your organization, you can use these softwares in any number of deployments you want. All of them are supported.

If you have more than 1000 employees, you may be eligible for a bulk discount.  So, contact the Sun Sales.

Thursday Jun 19, 2008

Tiger woods not playing rest of the 08 season

What a disappointing news :(  

One of the great finishes of 08' US Open championship brings in a mixed feeling.  It was great to see Tiger won the major inspite of not playing for several weeks due to surgery.  Unfortunately, long stressed game costing him rest of the season. 

It is not so fun to watch golf games without Tiger.  Last year, I happened to go to TPC Boston to watch Deutche Bank Championship.  The very reason I went there was to watch Tiger playing.  He came second behind Phil. I was thinking about going this time also.  But not sure, if it is anymore excitement to go without Tiger playing in it.

I am sure his absence in rest of the season will be a huge loss for PGA in ticket sales.

I just want to wish him a speedy recovery and hope that he will come back atleast for the FedEX playoff...

Open ESB @ Sun Tech days Manila, Philippines

Well, this is the last leg of Sun Tech day events for the FY08 (ends June30). It is hosted at Manila, Philippines.


The event is on as of now(June 17 -19).  As always, Open ESB session and booth is part of the event.

If you are around Manila, dont miss this opportunity to meet with the community members and Open ESB evangelists.

Sang Shin, one of our great technology evangelist is talking about SOA, BPEL and Open ESB in a session.

Senthil Prabhu from our IEC engineering is also out there supporting demo and other activities.

http://enterprise.circusmax.com/e1/hello/LoadMainPage?EventID=q426ixym

Wednesday Jun 18, 2008

Anything is POSSIBLE !!!

Anything is Possible ..... This is what Kevin Garnett said responding to a reporter.

Yes, Celtics won their 17th NBA Championship yesterday.  What a comeback, after 22 years !!!

Celtics team on the legendary team in the history, winning the most NBA championships. 

Fans, critics, and several others had written off Celtics, just a few years ago (as early as 2002).  The new management made it a big comeback.  Their smart marketing finally paid off.


Ray Allen was terrific.  He equalled a record of 7 three pointers in an NBA finals.  Pierce who finally won his first NBA championship like Ray and Kevin is my favourite and went on to win his first NBA Finals MVP award.  They are amazing big 3 players....

Go Celtics !!!

Monday Jun 09, 2008

Data Sheet - More details on Java CAPS 6

If you are looking for more information on Java CAPS or any other sub suites of the product, visit our product page.

Specific link to CAPS 6 data sheet - http://www.sun.com/software/javaenterprisesystem/suites/caps_ds.pdf

As you would have noticed, we do not have the product for free download yet.  You can certainly explore the open source face of the product under http://open-esb.org.  Please note, Open ESB is free to download and free to deploy.

Also note, that Java CAPS is not just Open ESB.  Java CAPS includes some of the Open ESB components.  But it is much more than that.   All the components of Java CAPS 5 (JCDs, Adapters, BPM, eView, etc...etc...) are available in CAPS 6 in addition to Open ESB Components.  On top of that  CAPS 6 leverages many of the other open source technologies like GlassFish, NetBeans, Open SSO etc.

If you are interested in learning more about the product or buying the product, please visit the "Get Started" on the product page.


Java CAPS 6 is now available

As some of you may have already noticed... Sun announced today immediate availability of Java CAPS (Java Compostie Application Platform Suite) and MDM Suite.

Here is the link to the press release.

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-06/sunflash.20080609.1.xml

CAPS 6 has lot of major enhancements...

Just to name a few..

- GlassFish V2 Application server based runtime

- NetBeans 6.1 based design time

- Project Metro based interoperability.  By leveraging project Metro (formerly WSIT) brings the WS interoeprability to SOA level.  Now, developers and customers can develop, orchestrate and deploy webservices that incorporate lot of the WS-* specifications and not only interoperable with other Java based webservices but also Microsoft .net based webservices.

- CAPS 6 is the way to get product support for most popular open source ESB - Open ESB.

- Some of the components from Open ESB are part of the CAPS 6 release (BPEL SE, ETL SE, Java EE SE and Http BC).  The big advantage with CAPS 6 is, many of the components that are available on Open ESB project are pluggable to the platform.  Developers and customers are welcome to leverage this opportunity and get quick access to lot of these components being developed in the open source.


Wednesday May 07, 2008

Project Fuji is introduced at JavaOne


I am happy to share with you that the project Fuji is introduced at JavaOne 2008 and is now available for community participation at http://fuji.dev.java.net/

Fuji is set to revolutionize the way integration platforms are built.  It is the first implementation that compliant to  both OSGi and JBI.

Developers/users will have the option to deploy Fuji on any OSGi compliant container including Java SE implementation that supports OSGi.  Technology Preview will be available on Fuji site VERY SOON !!!

On top of all that, Open ESB V3 is taking the next stem in including Fuji and making itself a container neutral SOA implementation.  It is the first community driven container neutral SOA implementation on the planet.

 On another note, we are also introducing GlassFish ESB which is the derivation of Open ESB that exploits all the great features of most popular application container on the earth - GlassFish. Customers/users deploying GlassFish ESB will be completely supported by Sun Microsystem.  Visit http://glassfishesb.org for more information.


Tuesday May 06, 2008

Open ESB Session at the Community One - Slides Attached

We had a an overwhelming response for the Open ESB session at the community one a day before Java One (JavaONE 2008) on May 5th.  

We talked about building reusable services leveraging existing applications/investments, orchestrating them together and creating new applications called composite applications.

We also demoed an interesting real world scenario using Open ESB.

You can find the slides for this session here.  (http://blogs.sun.com/prakash/resource/GlassFishESBCommunityOneFinalSlidesTemp.pdf)

 

Introducing GlassFish ESB - Open ESB V3 + GlassFish + More

Glassfish ESB - Open ESB V3 + GlassFish + More

Find out more at http://glassfishesb.org

GlassFish ESB is a derivation of Open ESB V3 that runs and exploits all the great features of GlassFish container.

A technology preview will be AVAILABLE SOON !!!!

Watch for the TP on http://glassfishesb.org

Announcing Open ESB V3 - a ground breaking performance in the next generation Services platform

Announcing Open ESB V3 - a ground breaking performance in the next generation Services platform

Yes, it is now official.  Open ESB V3 is on the roll...

We received over whelming interest from the community for Open ESB V2.  

Now we are taking a major leap in announcing Open ESB V3, the first ever container - neutral enterprise service bus that is built on top of project Fuji.  Project Fuji is compliant of OSGi and JBI specifications and can run on any OSGi compliant  container.

 

Find out more at http://open-esb.org

Sunday May 04, 2008

Introducing Project Fuji

Project Fuji is covered in Andi's technical session...

Look for some major announcements on Wed...

Find out more on Fuji at Java One

TS-6385 Integration Profile for GlassFish Project v3
Andreas Egloff, Keith Babo
Wednesday May 07, 09:30-10:30
Moscone Center, Esplanade 304/306

Open ESB at Community One day event in San Franscisco - Monday 05/05/08

We have a session on Open ESB at Community One event in SFO on Monday - 05/05/08

Here are the details

 

S297263
An Open SOA Platform, Open ESB: Composing Reusable Web ServicesPrakasha Aradhya, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Kiran Bhumana, Sun Microsystems, Inc.Monday
May 05
13:30 - 14:25
Moscone North -
Hall E 133

 

Tuesday Apr 29, 2008

CommunityOne in SFO

If you havent seen yet,
CommunityOne is on Monday, May 5 at Moscone in San Francisco. Registration is free: developers.sun.com/events/communityone.

Tuesday Mar 11, 2008

Book on Java CAPS

A book on Java CAPS is going to be out soon.  One of our collegues have this great book on SOA patterns using Java CAPS.

 Checkout the below link for more details....

 

http://blogs.sun.com/javacapsfieldtech/entry/java_caps_basics_implementing_common1
 


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