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It's been a hard year, but the GlassFish community has kept pushing v3 onward and all the indicators are that the result is very much worth the effort. The target date for GlassFish v3 is mid-December so the last few weeks have been very busy - check out these MarkMail charts:
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- last month was really close to an all-time record.
Plenty of progress to highlight from there; below are some. |
Final Branch:
If you are curious, peek at the hudson dashboard; it has plenty of very interesting jobs, including the nice progress on findbugs.
The FishCAT folks really deserve their own spotlights (soon), but see:
And, from the doc team, final reviews of:
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Check out this photo of Steve Harris's keynote at Devoxx; Sparky has a new friend! Twitter is full of positive comments. I need to do a pass to separate the interesting ones, but raw data at: #glassFish OR glassfish, #JavaEE6, #glassfish and #Devoxx. Looking forward to a complete report from Alexis (this photo is from the standing-room only JavaEE 6 University talk that he and Antonio gave).
PS. Thanks to
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The last batch of JSR's for JavaEE 6 were submitted earlier this week for Final Approval Ballot . The ballot will start on 11/17/09 and end on 11/30/09. They are:
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JSR 316 - JavaTM Platform, Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6) Specification
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Several JSRs had been submitted and approved previously:
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JSR 314
- JavaServer Faces 2.0 (News@TA, vote results: 12 YES/4 Not voted)
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JSR 330
- Dependency Injection for Java (News@TA, vote results: 14 Yes/1 No/1 Not voted)
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JSR 303
- Bean Validation (Emmanuel's note, vote results: 12 Yes/4 Not voted)
A few of the specs went through the lighter-weight Maintenance Process, including:
• JSR 311 - JAX-RS: The JavaTM API for RESTful Web Services JAX-RS 1.1 (Paul's note, change log)
This week carries a new episode in the Sun/Oracle/EU saga: The EU Comission has issued a statement of objections on the acquisition of Sun by Oracle.
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Since I am a Sun employee, I will just provide the basic links, no matter how tempting it might be to go beyond that...
• (Nov 9th) EU issues SoO -
I've only found indirect references to the SoO, like Sun's
K-8 Filing.
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The material would make for good pulp fiction. It's very sad to see the impact on people, but today I was talking with a friend that was affected and he was being very good at keeping things in perspective, so I thought of using the front cover of a true pulp fiction: Doc Savage - which I first encountered in an old Spanish translation in a storage room in my grandfather's flat in Barcelona (together with copies of The Shadow and El Coyote).
Perhaps also time to watch again the movie? Blu-ray, pretty please?
I've added a couple of new twists to the coverage of GlassFish News at TheAquarium to do a better job while controlling our time investment:
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I've started posting short news posts to my
twitter feed
as I encounter them;
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I've also started using ScribeFire to reduce the cost of creating posts, but this should be transparent to the readers.
Reporting on news is a losing battle, but I'm hoping that this approach will keep TheAquarium the best source for news on the (larger) GlassFish community while giving the editors a bit more "free" time to invest in other tasks.
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Today was the release of SailFin v2 (download, home, wiki) and its companion Sun GlassFish Communications Server 2.0 (download, home). SailFin v2 is a big release; it leverages GlassFish v2.1.1 (more tomorrow) and adds a number of features including high availability, rolling upgrade, flexible network topology, better overload protection, Diameter support, improved diagnosability, Java based DCR files for the load balancer, and more. I can't cover SailFin v2 properly but I'll collect some of the relevant links so you can follow them up. Start with Binod's overview: SailFin v2 Released! and move from there: |
Some of the major changes are:
As part of the release, the team has posted a number of new entries, including:
Finally, a list for PR/Press reports:
Note - GlassFish v2.1.1 is also available from Sun's Download Center and from the Community Site. More on that release tomorrow. And the OpenMQ 4.4 (and 4.4.1 RC1) are available from here.
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The Executive Committee for SE/EE of the JCP has approved JSR 330, Dependency Injection for Java. This specification, led by Bob Lee @ Google and Rod Johnson @ SpringSource was submitted in May 09 and moved through the JCP process very quickly. The final vote result was 14-1-1. Congratulations to the leads and the EG on this important spec. There are still a few specs left to approve that will go into the umbrella JavaEE 6 JSR. The next major one is probably JSR 299, which was submitted ahead of 330 but was later restructured to leverage it. |
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Abhijit has announced an update to the GlassFish v3 fcs schedule. We could not keep the previous date due to a black-out period at the JCP (EC elections) and moving the date forward proved to be unworkable for several reasons - including the current Java.Net problems - so we moved the date out by two weeks. New dates set the hard code freeze (HCF) date to Nov 9, 2009, with a final release by Dec 10. Full details at Schedule Page@Wiki. |
I've never been at Oracle OpenWorld so I'm very curious about how it feels. In preparation, yesterday I poked around a bit and found several videos that may (or not, we will see) convey a bit the mood... check them out and let me know what you think. If you only have time for one, I recommend the last one.
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Keynote Preview Series:
Applications,
Virtualization,
DataBases,
Middleware.
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The main blog for OpenWorld is Oracle OpenWorld and there will be live streamcasting of multiple events at OpenWorld Live.
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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 GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse is our all-in-one bundle that includes the Eclipse IDE (wiki) - the main alternative to that other IDE - the GlassFish Server and the GlassFish Plugin (home, intro), all in a single download. The GlassFish Plugin is updated quite frequently but, fortunately, it is quite easy to update the plugin from the bundle so you don't have to do a full-reinstall. The latest versions of the plugins are 1.0.32 (9/4/09) and 1.0.33 (9/11/09) - that's just a week apart - and a full list of changes is always available through the Release Notes. |
Although WTP's support for Java EE 6 has been Delayed until mid-2010 the GlassFish plugin provides critical Java EE 6 wizards - see Arun's latest entry in his TOTD series: Java EE 6 (Servlet 3.0 and EJB 3.1) wizards in Eclipse - and additional wizards are planned by GlassFish v3 FCS.
These plugins can be installed on Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede and Eclipse 3.5 Galileo. Galileo seems to have a nice set of features (Wiki, blogathon, DZone) and a co-bundle of Eclipse 3.5.1, GlassFish v3 and the latest plugins will be available when GlassFish v3 ships.
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So, you are a happy GlassFish user and want to show your appreciation? First option would be to become a customer but if you are in a hurry and/or are short in cash, consider joining the LinkedIn and/or FaceBook groups. Thanks for taking the time. |
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Go to the front page of Sun.com and Follow the link for an invitation to this Event on Tuesday. You're Invited to See the World's First OLTP Database Machine With FlashFire Technology Hosted by Larry Ellison; John Fowler will also attend. |
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The boards of directors for both companies Approved the Sun-Oracle Deal, Sun's Shareholders Approved it and the US DoJ Approved it, but the European Union is still investigating. The EU Commission is the executive branch of the EU and its cabinet has 27 Commissioners. Of these, Neelie Kroes (@Wikipedia, @CNet) is the Commissioner for Competition and her office just announced an In-Depth Investigation (also see NYTimes). As they say, story evolving... |
Related news are tagged Sun+Oracle. I also post links to related industry news at TheAquarium@Twitter.
Added I've not done any systematic tracking of how the press is reacting to this announcement, but the sources I follow are negative on the motivations spelled out in the EU ruling; see below for a few links:
• NYTimes:
New Snag for Oracle in Sun Deal
• InternetNews:
EU May Delay Oracle-Sun Nuptials
• InformationWeek:
Global CIO: Oracle Nailed By EU Protectionism As HP And IBM Raid Sun .
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CNet News:
The EU's Christmas gift to Oracle
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ComputerWorld (check the comments):
Why the EU should block Oracle/Sun
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It took a bit longer than anticipated, but we have updated the repositories behind GlassFish v3 Preview (STABLE from glassfish.sun.com). You are most likely to notice this through the see new SoftwareUpdate tool, but you might also see it through the GUI UpdateTool or the embedded UpdateTool, or do it manually via the CLI. Full details in Alexis writeup and Abhijit's announcement. The whole thing has been working very well for me in recent builds but this is software, so please let us know if you experience any issues. |