OpenDS continues to move forward after the Release of Sun OpenDS Standard Edition this last July. As indicated in the Roadmap the next release is OpenDS 2.2, scheduled for this Fall. The Roadmap describes a number of features, including Fractional Replication and LDAP Accessible ChangeLog, but Ludo has just published two features in the Control Panel, the ability to Manage Multiple Servers and Support for Recurrent Tasks.

Added - See Ludo's latest post on the Availability of OpenDS 2.1 build-1; and check out his explanation of the OpenDS Release Numbering System.

SailFin is closing on v2.0 which is aligned with GlassFish v2.1.1 (both scheduled for the end of October, see Roadmap) and the team has been highlighting new features in the release: • Prasad Announces HCF, provides an overview and a List of Fixes since SCF. • Shreedhar writes about the Support for SSR (SIP Session Replication). • Ramesh describes the Configuration Options, including DNS failover and Converged LB. • Prateek Announces a new AMIs for SailFin based on OpenSolaris.   (also see EC2 Blog and Full List of Sun's AMIs)

JavaZone 2009 is this week, Sept 9-10th, at Oslo Spektrum. It looks like a nice venue, see Wikipedia and Bird's Eye, and they do all sorts of events, from Tom Jones to Muse. It looks like a great conference; like last year, Alexis will be there presenting on GlassFish v3 and this year Kohsuke will also attend to present on Hudson. For a full list of the presentations, check out the Agenda and the List of Sessions.

Agile Development is very well represented in the conference, see among others:

• Continuous Performance Testing in the Cloud by Ole-Martin Mørk, Eivind Barstad Waaler (also on Hudson)
• Agile Application Management by Jahn Arne Johnsen
• Agile Enterprise Development with Groovy and Grails by Björn Beskow
• Agile Specification Quality Control: How to do inspections on any kinds of IT Development outputs for measurement of major defects by Kai Thomas Gilb, Tom Gilb
• Scaling Agile Software Development: Strategies for Applying Agile in Complex Situations by Scott W. Ambler
• Tools and practices for agile architecture documentation by Per Spilling
• Unconscious Taylorism - Why Old Thinking Hinders Agile Adoption by Marcus Ahnve

OpenESB's IEP SE (Intelligent Event Processor Service Engine) is an open source Complex Event Processing (CEP) and Event Stream Processing (ESP) engine. The IEP enables SOA and Event-Driven Architectures. On Wednesday, Tom Barrett will explore and demonstrate the IEP in a webinar. Tom Barrett is a Software Systems Engineer and a well known Sun Java Ambassador. In this webinar, he will give an introduction of CEP, provide an overview of the IEP, and showcase two examples. If you're thinking about using the IEP in your own projects, this may be an ideal way to get started with CEP quickly.

When: Wednesday, September 9, at 10:00 am PDT (1:00 pm EDT / 19.00 CET); Duration 1 hour
Signup: https://dct.sun.com/dct/forms/reg_us_2808_545_0.jsp

As previously reported last month, JavaEE 6 will include JSR330 and JSR299. Roger Kitain already has a simple yet detailed blog entry on using JCDI (JSR 299, ex-WebBeans) in GlassFish. He walks through JSF 2.0 and JSR 299/JSR 330 code. You'll see there @Inject, @Qualifier, @SessionScoped, @ApplicationScoped, all in action.

If you're curious enough to test this sample, I would recommend using NetBeans 6.8 M1 - register a recent GlassFish v3 build (promoted build web 62 for instance), create a Web Application with Java EE 6 as the platform level and copy paste the various pieces. No further settings are required.

Overall, this shows progress since Cay's previous entry on the topic. Other posts on similar topics are marked with the "jsr299" and "jsr330" tags. Keep an eye on Roger's blog for more entries on this topic.

As I just reported in a little more detail over at Superpatterns, we released OpenSSO Express Build 8 yesterday, including features such as our new One Time Password feature, the Fedlet for .Net and a new task flow for enabling single sign-on to Salesforce.com.

It's worth noting that OpenSSO Express Builds are supported builds, released on an approximately 3 month cycle between Enterprise builds. Customers simply buy support for OpenSSO and then choose which build to deploy; the main difference between the two is that we release hot patches and service packs for the Enterprise build, while fixes in the Express build are rolled into the next Express build (no hot patches or service packs). In this way, customers who are keen to deploy the very latest OpenSSO features with support can do so without having to wait up to 12 months for the next Enterprise release. More on this release in the OpenSSO Express 8 release notes; more on the Express build concept in the OpenSSO Express FAQ.

Carla has provided an overview of 3 new logging related commands in GlassFish v3:

• asadmin rotate-log • asadmin list-logger-levels • asadmin set-log-level --level level logger-name

Upgrade to the latest GF v3 and try it out.

The boards of directors for both companies Approved the Sun-Oracle Deal, Sun's Shareholders Approved it and the US DoJ Approved it, but the European Union is still investigating. The EU Commission is the executive branch of the EU and its cabinet has 27 Commissioners. Of these, Neelie Kroes (@Wikipedia, @CNet) is the Commissioner for Competition and her office just announced an In-Depth Investigation (also see NYTimes). As they say, story evolving...

Related news are tagged Sun+Oracle. I also post links to related industry news at TheAquarium@Twitter.

Added I've not done any systematic tracking of how the press is reacting to this announcement, but the sources I follow are negative on the motivations spelled out in the EU ruling; see below for a few links:

• NYTimes: New Snag for Oracle in Sun Deal
• InternetNews: EU May Delay Oracle-Sun Nuptials
• InformationWeek: Global CIO: Oracle Nailed By EU Protectionism As HP And IBM Raid Sun .
• CNet News: The EU's Christmas gift to Oracle
• ComputerWorld (check the comments): Why the EU should block Oracle/Sun

Kai's em novo blog como um funcionário da Sun é agora o The TAO of AMP e os posts mais recentes estão começando a refletir o estilo dele: • Impulsione seu site AMP utilizando mod_rewrite • O Guia de Manga de DataBases Ainda da tempo para adicionar The TAO of AMP à sua lista de leitura diária.

It took a bit longer than anticipated, but we have updated the repositories behind GlassFish v3 Preview (STABLE from glassfish.sun.com). You are most likely to notice this through the see new SoftwareUpdate tool, but you might also see it through the GUI UpdateTool or the embedded UpdateTool, or do it manually via the CLI. Full details in Alexis writeup and Abhijit's announcement. The whole thing has been working very well for me in recent builds but this is software, so please let us know if you experience any issues.

There are multiple IDE options for developing sip servlet applications in sailfin. Netbeans plugin is available for SIP Servlet development and for full fledged IMS service creation environment, Ericsson SDS can be used. For those eclipse fans, the recent versions of glassfish plugin has been enhanced to provide a much better SIP Servlet application development experience. Take a look at this blog from Vince for all details and tips for upgrading to newest plugin.

Good old tools never die, like wget (and the beam torque wrench!). Gerry Haskins has written an overview on how to (continue to) use wget to access SunSolve repositories (where the For-Fee Patches for GlassFish are stored) now that authentication is enforced. The short summary is "Use versions 1.10.x and 1.11.1, but not 1.11!", but Gerry gets into more details. You can also look at the Document at SunSolve.

Last month, John and Shreedhar gave a free webinar on High Availability through Load Balancing of GlassFish Clusters. The presentation was well attended, see posts from John and from an attendee, Daniel-Noz, and the recording of the webinar is now available. As part of an effort to improve the effectiveness of this and other GF Portfolio Resources, I've created a very short Feedback Survey; please consider using it to help us help you.

And, if you are interested in this topic, also check out this White Paper Application Scalability and Fault Tolerance with GlassFish Load Balancer (and companion survey).

Oracle's web site is running a teaser on Sun + Oracle is Faster that says: Check back on October 14 as we demonstrate Oracle's commitment to Sun hardware and Sun SPARC. October 11-15 is Oracle OpenWorld, which is held at Moscone Center, like like JavaOne. Unlike J1, the bulk of the presentations at OW are about the Oracle Applications (Wiki, General Sessions). OpenWorld does include a Developer Event that is happening at the Hilton Hotel, but all this is more than six weeks from now and we are Still Waiting, so we don't know if we will be able to Register as Employees, whether we should plan to give presentations, or who-knows-what...

Added - Also see this message from Larry (I've been told it will run as an Ad in a few places, including the WSJ).

We have done some cleanup on the GlassFish Download Page at Java.Net. The new table-based layout is quite compact and fits in the screen of many modern laptops. We tried to make the table readable and to make the descriptions brief but informative; a link to the full Comparison between v2 and v3 is still included. Check it out and let us know if you see areas that need further improvements.