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It's been a hard year, but the GlassFish community has kept pushing v3 onward and all the indicators are that the result is very much worth the effort. The target date for GlassFish v3 is mid-December so the last few weeks have been very busy - check out these MarkMail charts:
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- last month was really close to an all-time record.
Plenty of progress to highlight from there; below are some. |
Final Branch:
If you are curious, peek at the hudson dashboard; it has plenty of very interesting jobs, including the nice progress on findbugs.
The FishCAT folks really deserve their own spotlights (soon), but see:
And, from the doc team, final reviews of:
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Today is Nov 21th, 2009.
News shorts of interest to our communities, including:
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Waiting for Godot
I read
Waiting for Godot
for HS, but I didn't expect to live it...
On the Road to GlassFish v3
We are getting very close. The buzz around JavaEE 6 and GFv3 at
#devoxx
was very positive; some more links:
New Releases
Final and Release Candidates releases:
More Devoxx
Devoxx is over. By all accounts, a successful show.
GlassFish Customers and Events
New customers; new events
Other News
A new Eclipse proposal (Eclipse Development Process: Pre-Proposal and Proposal) has just been posted at Eclipse.org.
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Quoting from the proposal, the scope of the Gemini project is two-fold:
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Integration of existing Java enterprise technologies into module-based platforms; and
The initial emphasis is on standards developed by the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group. Gemini is organized under 6 subprojects, each seeded with contributions from SpringSource or Oracle and the overall lead for the project is Mike Keith. The project mentors are Wayne Beaton, Doug Clarke and Adrian Colyer. |
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A summary of today's news of interest to our communities. Today is Nov 19th, 2009. One more day to go at Devoxx, some Terracotta news and more GlassFish Events. The Java EE 6 specs are in voting right now, and we are still awaiting Godot. Note - this is an experiment to flush out the daily news that otherwise we can't cover due to limited time. Let us know how the format works for you. |
Terracotta News
Bumped into Alex Miller's blog and it has several posts worth mentioning:
Devoxx Updates
New GlassFish Events
Calling all GlassFish-related events!
We maintain a master calendar for events related to all the projects in GlassFish Portfolio at Google Calendar; if you are hosting such an event, or presenting at one, please let us know to theaquarium at sun dot com.
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The calendar ID is 3722ulvfgor2qabrut1mkia5m0@group.calendar.google.com, and you can access it in a number of modes:
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RSS Feed
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Check out this photo of Steve Harris's keynote at Devoxx; Sparky has a new friend! Twitter is full of positive comments. I need to do a pass to separate the interesting ones, but raw data at: #glassFish OR glassfish, #JavaEE6, #glassfish and #Devoxx. Looking forward to a complete report from Alexis (this photo is from the standing-room only JavaEE 6 University talk that he and Antonio gave).
PS. Thanks to
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The adoption of Hudson continues to grow and we are also beginning to see movement in Sun's commercial offering.
Kohsuke's Hudson Feed has many examples of adoption. The community is very active and recent posts include A Campfire Plugin and a CMake Plugin, a spanish Tutorial on SVN and Hudson and Using Hudson with Rational Team Concert (from the official IBM site!). Two posts with nice, quotable compliments are:
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• From Grant Smith's Creating a Continuous Integration Server for Java Projects Using Hudson at Wazi: our conclusion - based on a combination of first-hand experience and other people's opinions - is that Hudson is the current front-runner among open source CI engines. • From Joe Heck: Hudson - A lot of things done right: check out Hudson. It's a quick check - one download, one command-line, and you are rolling. |
Three examples on the commercial side, all from today:
• We closed another customer for Sun's Hudson Support; nice! Just let us know if you have any questions.
• We also got email from one of Sun's Principal Field Engineers. He is overseas visiting a (very) large customer where he found wide use of Hudson and strong interest in improved support. We not even knew this company was using Hudson - strike another win for Open Source!
• And, our friends at Sun's Inner Circle - Sun's newsletter for CIOs - included an article on Hudson in the Nov/Dec issue.
The last batch of JSR's for JavaEE 6 were submitted earlier this week for Final Approval Ballot . The ballot will start on 11/17/09 and end on 11/30/09. They are:
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JSR 316 - JavaTM Platform, Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6) Specification
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Several JSRs had been submitted and approved previously:
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JSR 314
- JavaServer Faces 2.0 (News@TA, vote results: 12 YES/4 Not voted)
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JSR 330
- Dependency Injection for Java (News@TA, vote results: 14 Yes/1 No/1 Not voted)
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JSR 303
- Bean Validation (Emmanuel's note, vote results: 12 Yes/4 Not voted)
A few of the specs went through the lighter-weight Maintenance Process, including:
• JSR 311 - JAX-RS: The JavaTM API for RESTful Web Services JAX-RS 1.1 (Paul's note, change log)
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GlassFish v3 is not just modular but the components can be updated through IPS-based UpdateCenter machinery. The Update Center team has been evolving tracking the IPS changes and adding refinements of their own; newer releases, like GFv3Preview, have been running recent UC, but the repositories for GFv3Prelude were running an older version of UC. Last week the Glassfish team pushed Update Center Toolkit 2.2u2 to the Prelude repositories. In normal conditions you should not notice the change but if you visit the repository directly you will see new graphics and additional facilities (like package search) plus improved performance and metrics. |
GFv3 FCS is around the corner and we are seeing very high interest in the release. At that point we expect the bulk of the GlassFish downloads to switch to being served from the IPS repositories - and we will find out if our capacity planning has been accurate :-)
Migration time! OpenSolaris, NetBeans and Hudson have moved (part of) their infrastructure.
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The OpenSolaris Website Community migrated opensolaris.org from an ad-hoc web app to XWiki on October 26th, 2009 completing phase 2 of the OpenSolaris.org transition. Check the Transition FAQ for more details. This move had been in the planning for a long time and is still unfolding. The NetBeans site moved the week of Nov 2dn to a new site, see the Announcement and the FAQ. The new NB site uses the Kenai infrastructure but is its own instance, separate from that of Kenai.org. I believe this move has completed. |
The last (ongoing) move is for Hudson. Most of Hudson was at Java.Net but some parts were not - like the confluence-based wiki. After the availability problems from a couple of months ago, Kohsuke and the community decided to move the bulk to Kenai. That move is still ongoing but some key sections, like the front-page, have already moved.
In all cases, these moves are intended to be (mostly) transparent to the users (hopefully with improved QoS).
This week carries a new episode in the Sun/Oracle/EU saga: The EU Comission has issued a statement of objections on the acquisition of Sun by Oracle.
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Since I am a Sun employee, I will just provide the basic links, no matter how tempting it might be to go beyond that...
• (Nov 9th) EU issues SoO -
I've only found indirect references to the SoO, like Sun's
K-8 Filing.
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The material would make for good pulp fiction. It's very sad to see the impact on people, but today I was talking with a friend that was affected and he was being very good at keeping things in perspective, so I thought of using the front cover of a true pulp fiction: Doc Savage - which I first encountered in an old Spanish translation in a storage room in my grandfather's flat in Barcelona (together with copies of The Shadow and El Coyote).
Perhaps also time to watch again the movie? Blu-ray, pretty please?
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Vaadin and ZK are both popular RIA frameworks that have been tested to work with GlassFish v3. The JavaDude has a detailed blog on "ZK 3.6.3 with Netbeans 6.8 Beta on Glassfish V3" (this is the ZK release from a few days ago). It discusses developing with or without the ZK community plugin for NetBeans (which is mostly about adding meta-data to a Java EE project), creating ZUML pages with a component palette and deploying to GlassFish v3. This framework does Ajax and push with no JavaScript exposed to the developer and should be familiar to people used to Swing development. Bobby wrote a blog entry you may want to revisit. |
Vaadin is another framework that keeps the developer away from JavaScript. It builds on GWT and has some interesting OSGi features that make it a good fit for the GlassFish v3 modular architecture. Vaadin's Petter has several tutorials showing the use of the GlassFish servlet 3.0 implementation but also how the Vaadin OSGi packaging allows for various options to avoid having to carry the framework with the application. It also discusses having multiple versions of the framework deployed in GlassFish v3. If you're interested, start with this "Deployment Options on GlassFish v3" article.
Both ZK and Vaadin are GlassFish Partners, just like WebORB, ICEFaces (now in Alpha and tested to work in the most recent promoted builds of GlassFish v3) and many others.
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This is the first of our weekly news catch-up and covers Nov 1 to Nov 11, 2009. This week the news catch-up is partial; next week I'll create the entry through the week and will try to be more comprehensive. This week we also cover old news on JRuby and OSGi. |
GlassFish and Middleware News
Predicting our Systems Future
From the past: OSGi in GlassFish (triggered by this thread):
From the past: JRuby on GlassFish (triggered by this thread)
I've added a couple of new twists to the coverage of GlassFish News at TheAquarium to do a better job while controlling our time investment:
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I've started posting short news posts to my
twitter feed
as I encounter them;
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I've also started using ScribeFire to reduce the cost of creating posts, but this should be transparent to the readers.
Reporting on news is a losing battle, but I'm hoping that this approach will keep TheAquarium the best source for news on the (larger) GlassFish community while giving the editors a bit more "free" time to invest in other tasks.
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The Devoxx conference is around the corner (in just over a week) and will take place in Antwerp, Belgium as every year, only a bit earlier than usual (December was just too close to the Christmas holidays). This week-long conference runs as follows: the first two days are 3-hour sessions to go deeper into the technology (they're called University sessions). The regular conference starts on the third day and offers keynotes and 1-hour sessions. Devoxx also has "Tools in actions" (30-minute), "BOFs", Quickies (15-minute), white boards, and more. |
First and foremost, the Wednesday Sun and Oracle keynotes should not be missed (or to be watched later on Parleys) :
• Java, the Platform for the Future - Steve Harris (Oracle)
• Java EE 6 and GlassFish V3: Evolution of a Platform - Roberto Chinnici and Ludo Champenois.
But there's a also long list of GlassFish and Sun-related session for this year's session :
University talks :
• Enhancing the JavaServer Faces 2.0 Component Model - Roger Kitain
• SOA, OpenESB and OpenSSO Programming with Passion - Sang Shin
• The Java EE 6 Platform University - Antonio Goncalves, Alexis MP
Sessions:
• JDK7 Update - Mark Reinhold
• The Java EE 6 Platform - Antonio Goncalves
• Writing Asynchronous Web application (Comet) using the Atmosphere Framework - Jean-Francois Arcand, Paul Sandoz
• Project Coin - Joe Darcy
• Using BTrace and DTrace to Instrument and Analyse Java Applications - Simon Ritter
• Enhancing the JavaServer Faces 2.0 Component Model - Roger Kitain
• Managing GlassFish on OpenSolaris - Simon Ritter
• The Modular Java Platform & Project Jigsaw - Mark Reinhold
• Deep dive on the Java EE 6 platform with GlassFish V3 - Roberto Chinnici, Ludo Champenois
BOFs:
• Grizzzly Servlet Container - Jean-Francois Arcand
• Update JDK 7 - Mark, Alex, and Brian
• The Modular Java Platform & Project JigSaw - Mark Reinhold, Alex Buckley
Quickies:
• Java EE 6 and OSGi. Ludo Champenois
See you there!
