Our 36th Adoption Story comes from Vancouver thanks to Arun:

Clarity Accounting provides an SAAS online accounting service using GlassFish Server. The implementation uses multiple OSS components including Hibernate, PostreSQL and GWT and the service is deployed on 3Tera AppLogic Grid (3Tera is a GlassFish Technology Partner).

See Questionnaire for full details. Clarity Accounting went live in September 2008 and their site looks like a well-cared small business; it was created by one person over 12 months (6 part-time) - I love to see the way we are enabling these small business to appear. See Questionnaire for full details.

For more adoption stories, check our Informal Stories. We are always looking for stories showcasing production use as these are critical to the growth of our community. If you are a happy user please consider sharing your story by sending us mail to stories at sun dot com.

Grizzly 1.8.0 is out and this one has a lot of new material, including GWT support, better OSGi Compliance, improved Comet Support, improved performance, SPI cleanup and many more (see JFA's note). Grizzly 1.8.0 has already been pushed into the latest GFv3 builds. Also see the Release Thread and the complete ChangeLog. Congrats to JFA, Oleksiy, and the rest of the team and community.

I think this is a very interesting direction: Greg is working on creating synergies between the jMaki and GWT. The intention is to expand and complement existing efforts like the GWT NB Plugin and leverage the JavaScript integration from jMaki and the Java skill set of GWT. To make things concrete, Greg has published a first effort built around jMaki Charting. We will you posted on the evolution of the project; in the meantime, start with Greg's Introduction to the Effort.

SDN is doing a series of articles on Hands-On Java EE and they are starting with AJAX. Mark and Rick are planning 4 articles in increasing complexity and so far have published two: the first one deals with Do-it-yourself, where the developer uses JavaScript and DHTML directly, while the second shows how to Use a Toolkit focusing specially on using the Dojo Toolkit, which is what Sun has standarized around.

In a related, longer, article, Mark and Ed provide a fairly complete review of the AJAX Design Strategies covering the two shown in the previous articles (do-it-yourself and client-side toolkit) as well as four others: a server framework like JSF or others, jMaki wrappers, Remote Invocation like DWR, and a pure-java like GWT.