The Executive Committee for EE/SE has approved the Public Review for JSR 316, the Java EE 6 Specification. The vote was 12 YES, 1 NO, 1 ABSTAIN, and 1 NO-VOTED; see Ballot Results. You can download the PRD draft, and, as always, your feedback to the Executive Committee and to the JSR316 EG are very welcome.

Next week I will host a special webinar in spanish on Thursday to cover the GlassFish Portfolio, following the model we just used for the Chinese and Japanese editions. The time of my presentation will be: • Spanish - Eduardo, et al. - Thu, Feb 26th, 1:00pm PT / 3pm Mexico / 10pm Madrid 1-1.5 hrs, hopefully with plenty of Q&A. Details at Show Page.

The portuguese version is still being scheduled but it will very likely be the week of March 1st.

We just pushed out four new GlassFish Adoption Stories. Three of the stories are from telcos (from the US, the Netherlands and France), the remaining one is a health care company from Canada:

• SFR - Developer APIs, GlassFish-powered - Telco in France.
• T-Mobile, High Availability and GlassFish - Telco in the USA.
• Medavie Blue Cross - Standards Eliminating Vendor Lock-In - Health Care in Canada.
• Pretium Telecom - GlassFish ESB in Telco - Telco in The Netherlands.

The Executive Committee for EE/SE has approved the Public Review for JSR 299 (see JSR 299 - WebBeans is Dead. Long Live Java Contexts and Dependency Injection!). The vote was 14 YES and 2 ABSTAIN - see Ballot Results. The voters raised a number of concerns but they all recognized the big recent improvements. Good progress!

PS. Bean Validation (JSR 303) was also approved with the same vote but with no significant technical comments. See Ballot Results.

The JCP process defines two specification processes. The changes to JSP 2.1 for Java EE 6 are done using the Maintenance process in the JSR 245 EG led by Kin-Man. There are two sets of changes: to the EL (Kin-Man's Overview, formal ChangeList), and JSP proper (Overview, ChangeList).

Both sets of changes are small; probably the biggest change is the addition of the ability to invoke methods in EL expressions. The review ends on March 3rd, please send feedback to Kin-Man.

Very significant (forward!) movement on the Java EE 6 spec: Roberto reports that the JavaEE 6 Public Review Draft is now available for download from the JCP site. He, and the rest of the JSR 316 group, solicits your feedback at "javaee-spec-feedback at sun dot com". Two specs are available: one for the complete Java EE 6 and one for the Web Profile.

The new Web Profile currently includes the following specs: Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2, EL 1.2, JSR-45, JSTL 1.2, JSF 2.0, JSR-250 1.1, EJB 3.1 Lite, JTA 1.1 and JPA 2.0. The list is not yet final, though, and there are three specifications that are still being discussed very actively.

JAX-RS has been very well received and is already implemented in several products, including our own Jersey. JAX-RS (1.1) is in the full JavaEE 6 but the EG decided it was too early to include it in the Web profile at this point. The situation with BeansValidation is slightly different: the spec just went into Public Review and, although it looks good, the JavaEE EG is waiting for feedback before deciding what to do.

The area that is still changing the most is JSR 299, previously known as WebBeans and now known as Java Contexts and Dependency Injection. Gavin and the EG has incorporated Extensive Feedback and the JavaEE 6 EG is soliciting feedback from the community on its inclusion on the platform spec. Please consider downloading the specification and providing feedback to both the JSR 299 and the JSR 316 Expert Groups.

Roberto also points that they are a bit behind but that a new schedule has not yet been created. Overall, though, these are very good news. Onward towards GlassFish v3 :-)

The JSF 2.0 team last month released an implementation of the new JSF 2.0 PRD (see JCP vote) and an updated JSF 1.2.11. The releases are available at the GFv3 Update Center (see, e.g., Mac) and can be installed using the stand-alone UpdateTool or the Admin Console. Let us know if you encounter any problems.

This implementation has all PRD features including the Declarative Events described by Jason, but the EG is still working on additional features like state management. A few others, like bookmarkable URLs, are still being discussed and may or not make it.

Our 36th Adoption Story comes from Vancouver thanks to Arun:

Clarity Accounting provides an SAAS online accounting service using GlassFish Server. The implementation uses multiple OSS components including Hibernate, PostreSQL and GWT and the service is deployed on 3Tera AppLogic Grid (3Tera is a GlassFish Technology Partner).

See Questionnaire for full details. Clarity Accounting went live in September 2008 and their site looks like a well-cared small business; it was created by one person over 12 months (6 part-time) - I love to see the way we are enabling these small business to appear. See Questionnaire for full details.

For more adoption stories, check our Informal Stories. We are always looking for stories showcasing production use as these are critical to the growth of our community. If you are a happy user please consider sharing your story by sending us mail to stories at sun dot com.

During the break, I noticed that the Bean Validation spec had gone into Public Review Draft. That spec is the last of the batch being considered for JavaEE 6. Below is a full list based on a pass through JCP (will adjust if I missed any); all of them are either in PRD or past it; the only exception is Java EE 6 itself (JSR 316) which, by definition, lags them all.

• WebBeans (Gavin King, JSR 299, @TA ) • Bean Validation (Emmanuel Bernard, JSR 303, @TA ) • JSF 2.0 (Ed Burns & Roger Kitain, JSR 314, @TA ) • Servlet 3.0 (Rajiv Mordani, JSR 315, @TA ) • JPA 2.0 (Linda DeMichiel, JSR 317, @TA ) • EJB 3.1 (Ken Saks, JSR 318 @TA ) • JCA 1.6 (Binod PG & Sivakumar Thyagarajan, JSR 322, @TA )

Some of these specs have already been voted on: EJB 3.1 (results) and JPA 2.0 (results); for some others the vote starts on Jan 6th: JCA 1.6, Servlet 3.0, JSF 2.0, and a last batch starts on Feb 3rd: Bean Validation, WebBeans.

Sun USA shuts down between Christmas and New Year, so we are going to add a few extra days at each end and we will take a break from now until Jan 4th. Time to recharge batteries, read a few books, clean house, play a few games (virtual and otherwise), celebrate the holidays and be with the family... It's been a very busy and rewarding year for all of us; our best wishes to all of you, and hope to see you next year.

One last launch recap before the holiday break; this one will be far shorter than the OpenSolaris 2008.11 recap as I'm about to turn into a pumkin.

Some recent news of interest:

A compilation of today's news of interest:

A compilation of today's news of interest - Special Release and Acquisitions Edition:

This last Thursday I hosted a Special Webinar for the Spanish-speaking community. The webinar home page (spanish, english) has links to the presentation (SlideShare, PDF) and to the recording. The presentation went very well and there was interest from the audience in making it a regular event. Future events will also be hosted at TheAquarium Online and we will announce it here, at JavaHispano and at other sites.

Also, if you participate at JavaHispano, check out the results (vote) for their poll on AppServer usage - Tomcat is number one but I'm surprised GlassFish is number three, ahead of WAS and WLS and close to JBoss. I hope next year things will look even better.