Bill has announced the creation of a New Arch Mailing List for GlassFish. Quoting Bill: The purpose of this mailing list is to discuss architectural issues for GlassFish. You might ask "what is software architecture? ... The software architecture of a program or computing system is the structure or structures of the system, which comprise software components, the externally visible properties of those components, and the relationships between them.

This is a very important step for GlassFish. Architectural discussions were the last set of engineering discussions happening inside Sun; if you think you can contribute your expertise, please consider participating.

We now have one-pagers for all the main features in GlassFish Server v3. Check them out and consider providing feedback through these mail threads: • Anissa on Admin Console • Hong on Deployment • Rajeshwar on REST interface • Prashanth on Monitoring • Sreeni on Pluggability • Sahoo on OSGi • Byron on Embeddability

Kohsuke recently started writing about the new Improved JAX-WS implementation and now Paul is going into some Details on JAX-WS Performance. He describes the use of Japex, the new XMLStreamBuffer and XMLStreamReader, and more. He also promises more details in future blogs. I think the new implementation will rock (or rocket?); this would be a great time for new members to join; start by using the artifacts (beta soon!), report bugs and rfes, and eventually become contributors.

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