Project WebSynergy has enjoyed a couple of recent positive developments: First, Adam Bien is a consultant and book author and has blogged about GlassFish in the past. Recently Adam blogged about the prospects of WebSynergy becoming the killer GlassFish Portal Server - I happen to share this outlook. He was right about GlassFish being the Killer AppServer after all!

Second, Sandeep headed up an effort to get some university students engaged with Sun's open source communities and projects - specifically, GlassFish, WebSynergy (and its NetBeans components). It was a big success, and as part of the larger GlassFish Community, students submitted their project as GAP entries. In addition, this project garnered awareness in their respective academic groups. Kudos to the teams!

Time for an update on a few Adoption Metrics.

The GeoMap now has data up til May 2008. The map now records 3,283,340 separate "Admin Pings" corresponding to 375,828 different IP addresses representing live GlassFish Server instances. Check previous entries for the applicable disclaimers. Indeed.com is an online job aggregator and provide job trend data. GlassFish jobs are still a small number but they are growing fast, see live and snapshot. Google continues their traditional Term Search Trend (Live, Snapshot) and also has a new Website Trend. The latter only shows all of Java.Net but also shows common terms searched - more on that later.

Our latest Adoption Story is from Geelong, Victoria: when Gieman IT decided to switch from their older AppServer, the only alternative that fitted their evaluation criteria was the GlassFish Server.

Check out the Adoption Story for an overview. The Full Questionnaire has full details and is always worth a check - for example they use JSF, Spring, JPA and Hibernate, use Oracle DB and MySQL Server, and they develop and deploy on Suse and OpenSuse. They also include this nice quote:

All new projects developed and hosted by Gieman IT Solutions will be running on GlassFish and we recommend GlassFish to customers wishing to host their own application servers.

Way to go, Geelong!

OpenESB was launched at J1'05 - same as GlassFish - (PR@Sun, msg@JN) but OpenESB has gone through several phases since then. The last year has been of internal focus but now that JavaCAPS 6 is almost ready we are going to start applying GlassFish Practices to OpenESB.

Below is an initial report on one of our usual adoption indicators, mailing list traffic (Feb/Mar/Apr/May):

OpenESB   • USERS (32, 34, 56, 157)   &bull DEV (122, 158, 162, 255) SeviceMix   • USERS (519, 601, 689, 598)   • DEV (385, 475, 326, 377) Mule   • USERS (510, 389, 789, 809)   • DEV (128, 114, 80, 63)

OpenESB had mostly just been focused on the DEV list but now is beginning to show growth on USERS and I expect that to continue. ServiceMix seems stable. Mule ESB is showing a USERS jump aligned with MuleCon but DEV is tanking; is that just a focus away from transparency or am I looking at the wrong alias?

GlassFish seems to be in a transportation groove; we recently had adoption stories around: Traveling and Reservations (TravelMuse and Wotif.com), Air (FAA and OAKAir) and automobile (Parking Enforcement). The latest addition covers trains through France's SNCF (see TGV, TER Chemin de Fer).

Check out Alexis's Adoption Story and the Detailed Questionnaire. Special noteworthy to me is SNCF's use of OpenMQ, like TravelMuse, Wotif and others (we need to do a full inventory; our questionnaire didn't use to ask about that).

It's been a while since my last Hudson Adoption roundup, so this is longer than usual:

• Notes from JavaOne - Duke Award, Rama, Kohsuke, TS, Audience • New Plugins - Crap4J, Ivy (full list; Tutorial, Part 6) • Presentations - No Fluff just Stuff, Ireland CI (June 10th). • Comparisons - W/ CruiseControl • Adoption in France - Overview, Developpez, Valtech, Xebia, Octo • Kind Words: Geir, Why Aren't You? • Doing More w/ Hudson - Gant, Multiple Grails?, Maven Overlays • Adoption in Scandinavia - Sweden (.NET projects), Finland

Paul pushed out the latest GF Admin GeoMap to reflect data from Feb 07 to May 08. A quick region-by-region comparison shows that the largest increase is in Latin America; Colombia grew more than 100%!

Month-to-month growth for several areas, based on hits:

• US - 18% • Europe - 28% • Asia/Pacific - 18% • Australia - 7% • Latin America - 40%

The web site for WorldxChange Communications NZ looks very good (they won the NZ Telecommunications Carrier of the Year 2007) and their Customer Bill View system is a JRuby Application running on GlassFish v2! The application came from an strategic emphasis in improving the customer experience and was developed very quickly, that influenced the choice of technologies. Check out Chris' Adoption Story and check the Questionnaire. The questionnaires for the Adoption Stories are always full of very interesting details; for example, WXC uses CentOS in production. Annecdotal data, but still, interesting.

One more Adoption Story: the FAA (website, Wikipedia) is now using GlassFish v2 for some of its projects. Some interesting tidbits: they develop and deploy on Solaris on Sun hardware and their exposure to GlassFish came from our NetBeans friends (thanks!). As usual, full details are available at the Questionnnaire. Note that FAA is in the process of purchasing GF v2 support - which reminds me I need to find the time to complete and push out a few more entries in GFB.

Reino International is an Australia-based company that is the largest paid parking equipment and service provider in Australasia and the USA. Reino has been running their reporting WebApp on GlassFish AppServer for the last 18 months. The App uses JSF, JAX-WS, JPA on Linux and Windows with MS SQL. Shown is RSV3 Digital Parking Meter, quite stylish, although not as much as Lovely Rita :-) Check out the Adoption Story and the Full Questionare. Thanks to Chris for the story, and all the work behind it!

This made me smile: Hudson got a free CVS to SVN conversion from CollabNet because they were using it themselves! I think that's quite nice from CollabNet. Check out Kohsuke's note for the mail thread and details.

Computer Sweden has a couple of nice article on OpenSource, GlassFish and MySQL.

The first CS Article covers the trend in IT software spending, specifically in the AppServer market, using GlassFish as an example of both Open Source momentum and Sun's success in that market. The article has an interview with the chief architect of Net Entertainment's (Overview, Customers) about their selection of GF v2 where he describes how they are "Saving 300,000 kronor a year with GF" and how they selected Sun rather than IBM, BEA, or JBoss.

The second article covers the GlassFish/MySQL bundle released late March which is here dubbed as relevant for people interested in Ajax or Comet (or both).

Note - Some of our colleagues from Sweden helped with the translation and we also used Stars21. If you have a better english translation, please add a pointer to it in the comments to this entry.

Open Source adoption in Europe is very strong, and we are seeing this through many customer engagements and also through through the GlassFish GeoMap Mashup, which is now 1 year old. Alexis shows Growth Graphically through snapshots; for DIY folks, go directly to the GF GeoMap and poke around.

Note: The map is not including activity from GF instances downloaded through a NetBeans co-bundle. A big portion of our downloads are through NB's so we expect a very noticeable jump in activity when we fix the underlying problem, in NetBeans 6.1.

Hudson was an easy "Número Uno" in a recent CI Poll. The top three vote getters were:

• Hudson - 78 • Continuum - 55 • CruiseControl - 31

Totally unscientific, but still the gap is large enough to suggest large adoption. Anecdotally, I keep bumping into Hudson use at Sun (and MySQL) customers. And the download numbers keep growing.

Some more News and Adoption Roundup:

• Progress with I18N
• Hudson destined to Distros: FreeBSD and OpenSUSE and OpenSolaris
• More Projects Using Hudson - GlassFish SailFin, Apache Jackrabbit
• A System Tray for Hudson
• Voice Control with Hudson and Using Variables to Identify Builds
• Kind Words - Nice!, Awesome!, Groovy!
• Writing a Plug-In, a multi-part series: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6-tbd] and [7-tbd]

The Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (Wikipedia, Organization About Page) is a German research organization that focuses on applied science (cf. the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft for basic research). Our latest Adoption Story describes how Metro and GlassFish were used in the Reference Implementation used in an e-Health initiative across multiple hospital organizations. Check the details at Chris' Electronic Case Record note.

I had never heard of the Frauhofer Society but turns out they are fairly large (58 institutes with over 12K people) and well regarded with contributions to areas like MP3. Their funding includes state contributions as well as contract work; it is named after Joseph von Fraunhofer.