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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
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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)
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James just posted his slides from Oracle OpenWorld... except that they are a JavaFX app. For most of the prezo the App behaves as slides (<TAB> to move forward) - except for the iconic JavaFX moving clouds - but at one point he switches to a version of our GlassFish GeoMap including zooming (scroll wheel), panning (drag), dot-size calculation and dot aggregation. Check JAG's blog for an intro (and some platform constraints). Also see live app and screenshot (small, large) and the corresponding original pinkDot (live, large). |
I'll add a link to James' keynote when it becomes available (probably here). Thanks to James for App (and the plug for GlassFish!) and to Paul Sterk for the raw geomap data.
Added - James James has factored out the Open Street Map Browser into its own OSMBrowser@Kenai.
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I've pushed out the Sept 2009 Adoption Stats for GlassFish and it shows a record month on downloads, registrations and admin pings. Of all the numbers, I like best the number of unique registered users: 387,384! It does look like we might be back to a growth path but Google trends (cached, live) and jobs@Indeed (cached, live) still show wait-and-see. Do notice that our competitors are down at Google trends, while we are level. Let's see what the next months bring. |
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The guys at ZeroTurnaround (makers of JRebel) have been running a survey on redeploy and restart turnaround time in Java App Servers that has >1100 responses so far. The survey's 3 questions ask about AppServer usage and redeploy and restart time. Although doing a good survey is tricky - for example, in this case the sample is self-selected (but not as bad as with the Reader's Choice), the impact of (Re)Deployment tooling/configurations is unknown and the time is estimated, not measured - I think this one is useful in calling attention to the importance of the full develop/deploy/debug cycle. GFv2 did very well and v3 is even faster! |
Jevgeni's analysis has some reasonable comments although some others seem unwarranted by the data. The most popular containers were Tomcat (29%), JBoss (25%), WLS (13%), WAS (12%) and GF (10%) (OC4J is 4%), with the caveat about self-selected samples. As a reminder of the importance of methodology, I'll point out that only 1 respondent listed Geronimo; readers may compare to that EDC Survey from Last Year.
Also note the impact of twitter and reddit in the comment thread - there are 117 comments as of this post... almost all of them very short 'heads-up' with no added value - sigh...
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Our old
GeoMap
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Total cumulative hits through July: 9,727,283
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The summer is here; I don't expect an uptick until September - modulo that little thing that is still pending.
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We track different Adoption Metrics for the GlassFish Server but we have very limited annecdotal data on how Migration occurs. Please help us understand a bit better how this migration is happening by completing this Short Questionnaire. The questionnaire has a few basic questions on AppServer use in your group; it should take you 5-10 minutes. Thanks! |
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I've posted the May 09 GlassFish Adoption Report. Some growth from April 09, but not back to the March 09 peak; probably some seasonal drop, possibly some impact from the Oracle announcement. The full report includes the usual download data for run-time and tools bundles, a comparison with JBoss downloads, GeoMap, Registration and Update Center. |
I expect to post the June report next week.
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We just posted a new report on AppServer adoption that we commissioned from Ohloh (recently acquired by SourceForge). The report uses the extensive code analysis done by Ohloh (38,000 projects across 3,500 source forges) to compute several metrics on how Open Source projects are targeting different AppServers. |
Ohloh computed trends through their application-specific deployment descriptors and found that ~50% of the projects currently target GlassFish and that the number jumps to 73% when only counting new projects.
Check out full details at the report and also see John's writeup.
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I just posted the Apr'09 report on GlassFish Adoption. All indicators are positive but a bit down from March 09; most of the drop seems seasonal (spring break) but there might be some impact from the IBM rumor and the Oracle announcement. The full report includes the usual download data for run-time bundles, tools(+run-time) bundles (second month for the Eclipse Bundle) and a comparison with JBoss downloads. I also report on data from the GeoMap, Registration and Update Center. |
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I track the
GlassFish Adoption Trends The preliminary download numbers for the month show similar data, a bit less than the record-breaking March but strong general growth. Finally, on the sales side, Slide 5 in the Q3FY09 Results shows 101% Y/Y growth for Middleware + MySQL. We do not provide additional data but annecdotally I know of deals that have accelerated on the latest news, not slowed down. |
Overall, all the indicators are good. We have a great team and we are working very well together (like that other great team) and we are looking forward to our future challenges.
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March was a very good month for GlassFish downloads:
• 250,756 downloads of the SDK-only distributions - new record!;
We previously reported that March delivered a new GeoMap record. |
Full details in
GF March Download Report.
Related queries are tagged adoption
Added - March was also a record month for registrations, with 30,551 GFv2 and 18,338 GFv3 registrations; I'll do a more complete post next week, when I'll also cover April.
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Paul has updated our Geomap to include data through March 2009 and it is another record month. A first pass at registrations and downloads numbers also look equally good.
• Monthly Admin Pings - 555,486 (new record)
More details on the other metrics when I double-check the numbers. |
See other posts tagged
Geomap.
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Paul has updated our Geomap to include data through February 2009. Some statistics:
• GF v2 Registrations - 351,130
(260K in Dec 4th,
200K in Sep 25th,
150K in Jul 14th).
The usual disclaimer: these metrics have flaws but they all show strong growth. |
See other posts tagged
Geomap.
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We recorded 649,296 d/ls of GlassFish Server last month (192,776 SDK d/ls plus 456,520 Tools d/ls); about 28K downloads each day. More details, including a comparison with JBoss's public numbers, in my note. The adoption for GlassFish is going very well and follows the model described by Jonathan ([1], [2, [3]). You can read about some of our Adoption Stories, or drop by EBC or elsewhere, for more details. |
