Bauer Systems - Online and paper media with GlassFish

Bauer Systems, a GlassFish user has been in the business of Media production (both print and online) for more than 130 years. They use a broad range of technologies from Java EE 5 to NetBeans, Oracle, JavaDB (yes, two different databases for different requirements), EJBs, Web Services, JMS, and some SOA.

The development effort for the GlassFish-powered applications so far has roughly been 20 person years. Development happens on a broad range of platforms while production is on Linux. Documentation quality was one of the deciding factor for Bauer to go with GlassFish. They are yet another user of OpenMQ but also JBI (in the form of OpenESB), and probably the first user to call out the GlassFish logo and t-shirts as one of their favorite product feature!

As always, make sure you read the Full Questionnaire for GlassFish adoption by Bauer Systems for more details on all of the above.

Posted at 02:35AM Sep 10, 2008 by Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine in Media  |  Comments[3]

Tune in and listen to the GlassFish @ RTL story

RTL is the #1 radio in France and millions of people wake up listening to the morning show every day. RTL now uses GlassFish for internal and external applications. The public website is at www.rtl.fr and it is conceived as an online continuation of the radio shows providing audio, news, and interaction between listeners and the radio show hosts.

The full questionnaire for this real-world deployment story has further details on the software architecture which includes a nice set of open source frameworks. Here's how RTL summarizes the values of GlassFish : "Simplicity, clustering built-in supervised with the console, really multiplatform, open source, supported by Sun.".

Make sure you visit and read
- the Full Questionnaire for GlassFish adoption by RTL
- the RTL website

Posted at 12:30PM Feb 22, 2008 by Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine in Media  |  Comments[1]