The adoption of Hudson continues to grow and we are also beginning to see movement in Sun's commercial offering.

Kohsuke's Hudson Feed has many examples of adoption. The community is very active and recent posts include A Campfire Plugin and a CMake Plugin, a spanish Tutorial on SVN and Hudson and Using Hudson with Rational Team Concert (from the official IBM site!). Two posts with nice, quotable compliments are:

• From Grant Smith's Creating a Continuous Integration Server for Java Projects Using Hudson at Wazi: our conclusion - based on a combination of first-hand experience and other people's opinions - is that Hudson is the current front-runner among open source CI engines. • From Joe Heck: Hudson - A lot of things done right: check out Hudson. It's a quick check - one download, one command-line, and you are rolling.

Three examples on the commercial side, all from today:

• We closed another customer for Sun's Hudson Support; nice! Just let us know if you have any questions.

• We also got email from one of Sun's Principal Field Engineers. He is overseas visiting a (very) large customer where he found wide use of Hudson and strong interest in improved support. We not even knew this company was using Hudson - strike another win for Open Source!

• And, our friends at Sun's Inner Circle - Sun's newsletter for CIOs - included an article on Hudson in the Nov/Dec issue.

This is the first of our weekly news catch-up and covers Nov 1 to Nov 11, 2009. This week the news catch-up is partial; next week I'll create the entry through the week and will try to be more comprehensive. This week we also cover old news on JRuby and OSGi.

GlassFish and Middleware News

• IBM DeveloperWorks: Introducing Metro. Nice to see IBM refering to the GlassFish WebServices implementation as it is Used by Many, including IBM. Incidentally, the article triggered several internal and external threads on the topic, see for example: Broken Fault Handling in Metro.
• Subversion is now an Apache Incubator podling and same for LibCloud (from Apache incubator)
• New IzPack, and new GlassFish v2.1.1 installer (via alexismp)
• Sun's Financial results for Q3FY2010 are now available. The revenue for MiddleWare+MySQL are shown as a single entry and are (slightly) up, Year-to-Year (Y/Y); Java and OpenStorage are significantly up Y/Y; other segments are down Y/Y. Also check the numbers for previous quarters.
• IntelliJ IDEA 9 (Maia) goes Beta with full JavaEE 6 (and GlassFish v3) suport.
• Sun's to cut 3000 jobs.
• New record month in GlassFish GeoMap numbers (more details still to come).

Predicting our Systems Future

• Systems-related: New DTrace CheatSheet, Simple LB in OpenSolaris
• Latest installment in Chris's series on Reduced Install of OpenSolaris. The series deserves a spotlight...
• Dedup in ZFS. This is a big deal; DeDup is big $$ business.

From the past: OSGi in GlassFish (triggered by this thread):

• Sahoo has done a lot of work on the OSGi portion of GF; see his blogs on: Running GlassFish on Equinox (and other OSGi Platforms), OSGi enabled web applications inGlassFish, Developing Hybrid (OSGi + Java EE) applications in GlassFish and Our second hybrid application: EJB as OSGi Service and OSGi Declarative Service bundle in GlassFish.
• Also see Arun's note building on this work at GlassFish v3 with different OSGi runtimes – Felix, Equinox, and Knoplerfish

From the past: JRuby on GlassFish (triggered by this thread)

• From GF Wiki: Getting Started with JRuby on GF

I've been waiting for a Press Release from IBM announcing the actual event - maybe it will be this next week, but I'm timing out...

IBM's WebSphere 7.0 joins the parade of JavaEE 5 Compatible Products: 11 products from ASF, IBM, Kingdee, NEC, BEA/Oracle, SAP, Sun and TmaxSoft. Check IBM's Announcement Letter, an overview Screencast, the overview Article, and the Websphere Community blog. Several IBM engineers hosted an online chat last week (intro, transcript); there is also a trial version available. I believe "trial" refers to the evaluation license (i.e. not free right-to-use); since IBM's Letter gave a GA of last Friday it should be the final bits.

Although I sympathize with Alexis, this announcement pretty much completes the industry switch to JavaEE 5 that we started with the GlassFish v1 announcement in May 2006. Now just waiting for JBoss 5, that would make a nice 3x4 tableau.

The NY Times reported on an IBM effort to "(increase) standards transparency, fairness and quality". Check out the Standards Page@IBM and the Standards For Standards document. The news was also reported at CNet, SlashDot and Groklaw, and several mention the recent FastTrack vote on OOXML (and at least one also mentions the WS-I). My kudos to IBM, I think this is a good move. Incidentally, the JCP is also trying to improve transparency in general, and several of us are trying to contribute to that where we can. Baby Steps; eventually we will get there...

Breaking News: IBM Joins OpenOffice.ORG. • News: IBM PR, FAQ, IBM as JCA signatory. • Commentary: Erwin, Simon, Peter.

Oleksiy is reporting on one more product that is implementing Fast Infoset. This time comes from IBM: their SDK for Java 6 Early Release. FI support is not suprising as the Java EE 5 WS implementation seems based on that from GlassFish. Note that IBM's release is an EA - you will need to ask them for their FCS plans. Other implementations that pass interoperability include: Liquid Technologies, OSS Nokalva, Noemax, WebLogic Server 10 TP, the GlassFish AS (and its Sun distribution SJS AS 9.0), and Sun's JDK6 release.

Check out Oleksiy's blog and the Fast Infoset Interoperability Project at Java.Net. Also check Pauls' activation instructions and a list of Other TA Spotlights on FI.