The plan is for the main GlassFish projects to move to Mercurial (see related entries). Recently, Jerome explained that the core project was taking a detour through SVN, but in the case of the GlassFish-CORBA project Ken reports they are transitioning directly from TeamWare (like OpenSolaris).

Santiago has posted Japex 1.1.4, the GlassFish WS and XML performance tool. The new release addresses new customers, including CORBA (the new japex.singleClassLoader property) and a multi-user simulation (japex.runIterationDelay). Rapid interaction between customers and developers is a key benefit of Transparent Development; this is a good example. Check more details in Santiago's Blog.

The CORBA implementation was recently Released as part of Project GlassFish. In his most recently blog entry, Ken describes how Stubs and Skeletons are Dynamically Generated in the current implementation to substantially reduce deployment time (full details are here). Although this CORBA implementation is very solid, there are changes planned in the near future and Ken also mentions some of them (also check the GlassFish-Corba home page). As with all components in Project GlassFish, we are actively interested in participation; if you are interested contact the team or Ken directly.

The photo: the Earth from Apollo 17, a fairly small Orb, as galactic objects go, but a bit bigger than other famous orbs.

CORBA (wikipedia) is like JAXP, JAXB and JAX-WS: it lives in both Java SE and Java EE. We are now following those examples and making CORBA open source on its own project as part of the GlassFish community. Check the home page at GlassFish-Corba and the introductory blog by Ken Cavanaugh.