Modularity is important but without extensibility and manageability, GlassFish v3 would not be as exciting. Jerome Dochez, the architect for GlassFish recently posted an entry on Managed OSGi bundles. He discusses the pros and cons of deploying extensions to GlassFish as plain OSGi modules dropped into the modules/ directory or by using the familiar asadmin deploy approach. Jerome then goes on to write, deploy and test a simple OSGi bundle starting from a Java class using respectively Maven and telnet (to access the Felix Console). This entry is a follow-up to a previous one on the use of Grizzly adapters to extend the application server runtime. Jerome promises a third part to this series focusing on combining Spring, OSGi and Java EE 6, all inside GlassFish v3.

While GlassFish v3 Prelude was released in 2008, you will need to get a promoted build in order to test the features discusses by Jerome. As previously reported, the full Java EE 6 implementation of GlassFish v3 is targeting a final release in September 2009.

In recent sister website news, GroovyBlogs.org is the latest "story" about running a grails application on top of GlassFish v2. Glen Smith shares his thoughts on running his community web site for the past couple of years using GlassFish and how OpenMQ has recently increased the overall availability of the system.

asadmin, the GlassFish CLI (Command Line Interface) was recently featured on TheAquariumTV (archive) and is now available as episode #28 of the GlassFish Podcast. The original recording was edited down to make it more podcast friendly (shorter, less discussion, more presentation). Let us know how that works for you.

This week's webinar is on Thursday, Feb 12th, 11:00 am PT. Jane and Kedar will give an overview of ASAdmin, the GlassFish CLI console. ASadmin provides the same functionality as in the GUI console but it is often more adequate for automation. Note - This topic was initially scheduled for Jan 22nd. New material since then includes a section based on GlassFish v3 a discussion on the architectural benefits of ASadmin.

Slides and other material will be posted to the Presentation Page. We encourage your participation during the presentation and recordings will be available later.

This week's webinar is on Thursday, Jan 22th, 11:00 am PT. Jane Young (and guests) will provide an overview of ASAdmin, the GlassFish CLI console (v2, v3). Asadmin enables the same functionality in the GUI console but in a format that is often more adequate for automation. Asadmin has bee described as "GlassFish's hidden gem"... Slides and other material will be posted to the Presentation Page; as usual, we encourage your participation through questions before or during the presentation via the companion chat. As usual, recordings of the presentations will be made available later.

Added - Due to technical difficulties I could not host the webinar and it will be rescheduled. It is currently penciled in for Thu, Feb 19th.