Full GlassFish adoption questionnaire responses from SFR's Cyrille Manente.

Date : February 2009

Can you tell us about the application, site, or service in which you have adopted GlassFish?

SFR is a Vodafone and Vivendi-owned company accounting for more than 19 Million subscribers. GlassFish was selected for a project whose aim was to migrate an existing old java based platform into a state of the art Java EE Platform designed to be robust and scalable. The new platform is devoted to SFR Fix and Mobiles Services APIs exposure over the Web: SMS, Multimedia Messaging (MMS), Location Services and Access Network Private Address Book.

How and when did you first find out about GlassFish?

The really first time, I heard about GlassFish was beginning of 2008 when we started to select the Application server for our platform.

What specific version of GlassFish are you using?

Sun Java System Application Server 9.1

On what operating system do you run GlassFish? Do you use the same OS for both development and production deployment?

GlassFish runs on Solaris 10 OS for development and production platform

On what hardware platform do you run GlassFish? Do you use the same platform for both development and production deployment?

GlassFish runs exclusively on SUN SPARC Enterprise T5220.

Have you purchased a GlassFish subscription?

Yes.

What specific features or modules of GlassFish are you using?

We use GlassFish in a clustered mode thanks to Node Agent architecture without any specific administration tools. We're also using the Metro Web Services stack (JAX-WS) which we migrated from our initial Axis code. The rest of the code was almost entirely preserved.

Are you using OpenMQ?

Yes, we've migrated from OpenJMS to Sun Message Queue.

What do you like most about GlassFish?

We did not encoutered any problem during installation, the administration Console is quite easy to understand. Another good point for us : GlassFish is an Open Source product.

What would you most like to see improved in GlassFish?

At the moment, our project is up and running and we do not see any improvement need.

Are you using any open source or commercial frameworks or tools in your application?

Spring, Hibernate associated with other tools form Development Lifecycle : NetBeans, Hudson.

Does your application use a database? If so, which one?

Yes, we use MySQL in an HA environment (with replication).

Are there any figures about the scale of your adoption which you would like to share?

The entire project took about 3 months to build the first platform for a very small team (3 to 4 developers during 2 months).

How has GlassFish performed since your application went live? Have you run into any production issues which you would attribute to GlassFish?

The service offered by the platform is "Telco Grade". Even facing to high http connexions rate, QoS has been preserved, the app cluster has correctly absorbed the trafic peaks.

How would your describe your participation in the GlassFish project?

user only.

Thank you Cyrille for sharing this with the rest of the GlassFish community!