Paul's Blog: Paul Sterk, Glassfish Community Manager

If you are interested in finding more educational content on GlassFish, checkout the Sun Learning Exchange (SLX). I did a query with keyword "glassfish" and got two hits.  More info on SLX:

SLX can equip you with just-in-time, just-enough content to match your learning needs and style. SLX is a secure environment available via one-click access on the open Web. You can access it in any number of ways, including mobile devices such as laptops, iPhones and iPod Touch on WiFi or 3G.

If you need help configuring a MySQL DataSource with GlassFish, check out today's blog post from the Some Java, J2EE and WebSphere stuffs.  It has received one 5 star rating thus far.

In case you missed the announcement on solariscentral.com, the new GlassFish and MySQL Unlimited support offering can save enterprises money by supporting an unlimited number of servers across your organization for a flat fee.  

This offering includes a comprehensive set of products and services to easily and safely deploy GlassFish Servers across your entire organization. You get the following benefits:

• Unlimited server deployments of GlassFish Enterprise Server
• Unlimited problem resolution support
• Interoperability assistance
• Developer expert assistance

 See the Get GlassFish & MySQL Unlimited and Save page for more details.

There is an announcement today on businesswire.com about the release of a new social networking game for Facebook, allowing fans of the 2008 Beijing Summer Games to compete online, with their friends and for their country, by correctly predicting medal winners throughout this summer's events.  The is called "MyPicks Beijing 2008" and is based on zembly, a social application platform.  Here is more info from the zembly home page:

"In some ways, you can think of zembly like Wikipedia for social applications—a wiki for live, editable code that is more than just about trivial widgets, but rather about full-fledged social applications that can tap into the social graph and reach millions of users.

At zembly, you can easily and instantly...

• author social applications using your browser
• participate and collaborate with others around live, editable code
• use the richness of popular web APIs to create your applications
• publish your social applications to multiple social platforms with a single click"

zembly utilizes Sun hardware on Network.com™ while taking advantage of Sun's software stack – the Solaris™ 10 Operating System, GlassFish™ application server and MySQL™ database.

There is a JRuby on Rails in GlassFish Tutorial available for the GlassFish v3 Technology Preview 2.

This tutorial shows you how to get started using JRuby on Rails on the GlassFish v3 Technology Preview 2 Application Server by covering the following topics:

• Introduction to JRuby and Rails on the GlassFish v3 Application Server

• Installing JRuby and Required Gems

• Creating a Simple Rails Application

• Deploying and Running the Application

• Accessing a Database From a Rails Application

• Accessing Java Libraries from a Rails Application

Glassfish v2 UR2 ML has been released with updated language support:
https://glassfish.dev.java.net/downloads/v2ur2-b04.html

Useful preso on OSGi from BJ Hargrave and Peter Kriens from the OSGi Alliance.

In case you missed the GlassFish Sessions at CommunityOne 2008 this year, there are videos available via ustream.tv.  You can find all the videos under TheAquarium: GlassFish @ CommunityOne. The video is mediocre, but the audio is very good.

Just a reminder that there are cases where you do not need to have a Developer role to contribute to the GlassFish community.  Here are some common cases:

• Submitting IssueTracker requests.
• Checking out sourcecode.  You can do this anonymously.
  
• Writing to the wiki.glassfish site.  However, you need to check the wiki Terms of Use before you contribute.

You need to have the Developer role to commit code changes.

You need to have the Content Developer role to make changes to content on glassfish.dev.java.net.  However, since the wiki.glassfish site is available, one does not normally need this role.

Lastly, if you have submitted a request for Developer or Content Developer and have not heard anything, please let me know.

 

Did you know there is Student Program as part of CommunityOne? Highlights include:

Free admission. Sign up today and get the following:
• Admittance to all general sessions, technology sessions, birds of feathers, and specially developed Java University classes.
• Lunch each day, t-shirts, backpack, coupon for free Java Certification Class
• Access to technology experts and the JavaOne Conference Pavilion

Participate in additional in cool activities:
• StartUp Camp -- tips on how to start your own business from entrepreneurs who have.
• Choose your topic -- What do you want to share or gain?
• Sessions on Commiunity Building, Music and Robotics
• Make contacts at leading technology companies and start-ups in our large Technology Expo (over 125 established companies and start ups)
• Attend the JavaOne AfterDark Party - See SMASHMOUTH perform LIVE! Meet peers and network with experts while having fun!

Update on the GlassFish Update Program (GAP).  We have been getting some interesting submissions lately. Check out the GAP Submissions page for updates. Some of the submissions include a suite of Hudson Plugin Suite, Izpack, Spnego, AS Certification Management, JSF Pub/Sub Extension for jMaki, Underworld and Greenfire.  If you wish, we can try to assign you a mentor who is a subject matter expert.

Also, Sun Campus Ambassadors are now eligible provided that the work for the GAP submission is unrelated to the work that they are doing for Sun as part of the Campus Ambassador Program.  See this Aquarium post for details.

Looking forward to receiving your entry soon.
 

CommunityOne is a free and open developer conference held on May 5, 2008 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.

Register today: http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone

Benefit from the innovation of dozens of free and open source communities spanning the open source stack and powering the Internet. In one jam-packed day you will find sessions on everything you need to
advance your skills, create a next generation infrastructure and develop compelling web experiences.

Choose from 70+ sessions on:

• Scripting and RIAs: PHP, AJAX, Python/Jython, Ruby/JRuby, Javascript, JavaFX, jMaki, and more

• Web 2.0 Applications: Social Networks, Mashups, and Web Services

• Databases: MySQL, PostrgeSQL, and Java DB

• Tools: NetBeans, Eclipse, Subversion, and Others

• Web Scale Computing: HPC, SaaS, Utility/Cloud, Open SSO, and Project Darkstar

• Operating Systems: OpenSolaris and Linux Distributions

• Web and Application Servers: GlassFish, Apache HTTP, and JBoss

• Chip Design: OpenSPARC

• Projects and Strategy: FOSS principles, music, robotics,

• OpenOffice.org, ODF, OpenDS, OpenJDK, Mobile & Embedded, and more

• Select Your Own Topic: RedMonk Unconference

• Startup Best Practices: Startup Camp (May 4-5)

For the full conference curriculum and session abstracts, visit:
http://www.cplan.com/sun/communityone2008/cc

Plus experience the latest in Java technology.

As a CommunityOne attendee, you will also gain complimentary access to the 2008 JavaOne Conference general sessions and Pavilion on Tuesday, May 6.

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DAY AT A GLANCE:
General Session: 9:30 am - 10:45 am
Technical Sessions: 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Community Reception: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Registration is complimentary, but space is limited. Save your spot today:
http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone

Content may change. Change is good.
CommunityOne is sponsored by Sun Microsystems

For those interested in migrating from JBoss or Webshere to GlassFish, see the Migrating To GlassFish wiki page.

 Good suggestions on 3 Simple Steps for a Successful GlassFish Deployment by Arun Gupta.

 

Note: another interesting article on migrating a basic app from WebSphere to GlassFish Migrating WebSphere BasicCalculator example to GlassFish by Sekhar Vajjhala.