As we reported yesterday, Java.Net is under a DDOS attack (seems somewhat similar to this one). The Sun and CollabNet teams are working hard to address this but it's taking longer than we all want, so here are a few useful links that apply to GlassFish and Hudson.

First, because the services used by our projects come from multiple infrastructures, some sites have not been affected (knock on wood - or toca ferro). The following seem to be unaffected: • wikis.glassfish.org, wiki.hudson-ci.org/, maps.glassfish.org/server • Downloads at download.java.net including:    GF v3, including GF v3 nightly and GF v3 promoted,    GF v2, including GF v2.1 and GF v2.1 nightly,    GF v2.1.1, including GF v2.1.1 promoted and GF v2.1.1 nightly,    Eclipse Bundle; also see more d/ls at GlassFish. • Downloads of NetBeans and Hudson • Kohsuke also created SVN mirrors at svn-mirror.glassfish.org including:    hudson, glassfish-scripting, glassfish grizzly, hk2 jersey.

For the case of Hudson, there is a run-time impact due to the plugin-store which has been addressed in the latest build, but see Dealing with Outages, and also see this discussion of longer-term solutions.

I'll add more useful links as I find them / people report them to me. Thanks for your patience while we deal with this situation.

You may have experienced difficulties in the past week trying to access the glassfish.dev.java.net website (or via glassfish.org which redirects there). We'd like to apologize for any inconvience that it may have caused. The GlassFish team itself has suffered from this outage and we've been in close contact with CollabNet (the company running the site) to track the progress made. If you're interested in the latest details of what's going on, please consult this recent blog entry and this earlier one.

Having said all this, things should be almost back to normal, but if you're still not able to access the site, please send email to escalation_manager @ java-net.dev.java.net with your IP address, wether it's a static one or provider-allocated and the country you're working from.

Also, note that if you're looking for a download of a stable version of GlassFish (including GlassFish v3 preview), you can certainly do that from the sun.com pages and even get to the very latest promoted build using the update tool.

If you publish bits to the Java.Net Maven2 repository, you should check out Kohsuke's writeup from a couple of days ago. No changes if you only download the bits and have been using the recommended http://download.java.net/maven/2/ path.

The reason for the change was just operational, we were running against the limits of the previous setup; one of the disadvantages of our continuous growth. Thanks to Kohsuke for handling the fire-drill.

Kohsuke seems to have an extra allocation of fame: he already had his 15 minutes from Java.Sun.Com and how he gets an extra dose with an interview at Java.Net that centers on Hudson, his CI project. Other Hudson links include Eric Lefevre compares it with other vendors and includes screenshots; Andrew Glover talks about SVN authentication; Lars Trieloff has multiple blogs on Hudson and Glen Smith covers Hudson with Groovy and Cobertura. Earlier TA spotlights on Hudson are here. The Hudson website has plenty of useful information. Added: Also check out Elliotte Rusty Harold's Thread and Kohsuke's most recent post.

Last week Kohsuke put together some JavaScript code that we have started using to provide some visual consistency across the GlassFish projects. He also applied it to the GlassFish wiki. This is just a first pass; most projects have converted (see tor example, GlassFish, JAX-WS, Phobos, JSF, Grizzly and many more) but not all have yet (like jMaki). The common infrastructure will make improvements much easier.

See you at GlassFish Day!

Kohsuke has set up mirrors for the Java.Net Maven repositories,archive-old-02 • As a mirror for https://maven-repository.dev.java.net/ (m1), use http://download.java.net/maven/1/ • As a mirror for https://maven2-repository.dev.java.net/ (m2), use http://download.java.net/maven/2/ Thanks, Kohsuke.

Membership: #2 (GlassFish), #6 (OpenESB); Accesses: #1 (GlassFish), #4 (Blueprints), #8 (AJAX/jMaki), #10 (JSF); Commits: #2 (OpenJBI Components), #3 (JAXB2-Reflection), #5 (GlassFish), #7 (Hudson); Hits: #1 (GlassFish), #4 (Blueprints), #8 (AJAX/jMaki); Mail: #3 (GlassFish), #10 (OpenSSO).

All these metrics are just approximations: for example, developer traffic will increase mail stats while forums are not counted at all, and Java.Net reports per-project statistics without accounting for any logical groupings. Still the stats are useful in tracking adoption, interest and participation.

Earlier rankings are here: (2005) [Dec]; (2006) [Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct]

The current poll at Java.Net is asking Have you used GlassFish?. To vote, go to Java.Net and look on towards the middle of the righ hand side bar. To see the current results, look here.

Membership: #1 (GlassFish), #6 (OpenESB); Accesses: #1 (GlassFish), #4 (Blueprints), #8 (AJAX/jMaki); Commits: #1 (JAXB2-Reflection), #2 (JAXB-Architecture-Document), #3 (JAXWS-Architecture-Document), #4 (GlassFish), #9 (WSIT/Tango); Hits: #1 (GlassFish), #4 (Blueprints), #8 (AJAX/jMaki), #9 (BPCatalog); Mail: #3 (GlassFish), #7 (Facelets).

All these metrics are just approximations but they are useful in tracking adoption, interest and participation. The mail traffic is a partial indicator as it is biased in one way (DEV shows developer traffic) and in the opposite (Forums are active but not counted).

Earlier rankings are here: [Dec 05], [Jan 06], [Feb 06], [Mar 06], [Apr 06], [May 06], [June 06], [July 06], [August 06], [September 06]

Running late again on the stats. Here are those for September...

Membership: #2 (GlassFish), #6 (OpenESB); Accesses: #1 (GlassFish), #4 (Blueprints), #10 (AJAX/jMaki); Commits: #1 (JAXB2-Reflection), #4 (JAXB-Arch-Document), #8 (glassfish-corba); Hits: #1 (GlassFish), #4 (Blueprints), #9 (AJAX/jMaki), #10(BPCatalog); Mail: #2 (GlassFish), #9 (Facelets).

All these metrics are just approximations but they are useful in tracking adoption, interest and participation. The mail traffic is a partial indicator as it is biased in one way (DEV shows developer traffic) and in the opposite (Forums are active but not counted).

Earlier rankings are here: [Dec 05], [Jan 06], [Feb 06], [Mar 06], [Apr 06], [May 06], [June 06], [July 06], [August 06].

Part 2 of an article on opensource portal and portlet development is available now on Sun Developer Network. The article's focus is on the new opensource repository for portlets on java.net. As the popularity and resources of opensouce portlets grows, users of portals will gain more and more benefit at a higher and higher ROI of their portal projects. What a great idea for opensource participation. Contributing and sharing portlets which provide simple deploy-and-play functions for portal's and portal pages.

I better report on the statistics for August before those for October come out...

Membership: #2 (GlassFish), #6 (OpenESB); Accesses: #1 (GlassFish), #2 (Blueprints), #10 (BPCatalog); Commits: #1 (JAXB2-Reflection), #4 (JAX-WS-Arch-Document), #8 (Hudson), #9 (JAXB-Arch-Document), #10 (WSIT/Tango); Hits: #1 (GlassFish), #2 (Blueprints), #9 (BPCatalog); Mail: #2 (GlassFish).

All these metrics are just approximations but they are useful in tracking adoption, interest and participation. The mail traffic is a partial indicator as it is biased in one way (DEV shows developer traffic) and in the opposite (Forums are active but not counted). For some partial statistics, you could look here.

Earlier rankings are here: [Dec 05], [Jan 06], [Feb 06], [Mar 06], [Apr 06], [May 06], [June 06], [July 06].

Ed reports on a Refresh of the JSF Components in the Java.Net Maven Repository. The repository is continuously updated; there is also work on a Maven 2 repository and in synchronizing with the iBiblio repository. We will report on that in the near future.

GlassFish components in the repository include: JAX-RPC, JAXP 1.4, Java Persistence and EJB 3.0, JSTL 1.2, Servlet 2.5 and JSP 2.0 and JSP 2.1, XML Stream, Fast Infoset, JSFs, JavaMail and Activation, JAXB, JAX-WS and SAAJ. More components will be added in the future.