I was "on vacation" last week, so the news are a bit late, but the news on July 1st confirmed the rumor: Oracle WebLogic Server is Oracle's "Strategic AppServer" - see the articles at The Register and InfoWorld. This comes on top of recent surveys on Oracle/BEA usage: SOA-Talk and The Register.

A consequence of this move is that Metro is now used Oracle's main AppServer, increasing the adoption of GlassFish's WebServices stack. The same applies to JAXB RI; and, in that case, I know of no mainstream AppServer that uses a different implementation!

One of the benefits of using an OpenSource license is to simplify adoption by other F/OSS groups, and, slowly we are getting more customers.

In the case of Geronimo their Report Card shows a plan to use JAXB 2.0 (or 2.1?). Other modules are listed as multiple options, including JSF 1.2, TopLink Essentials, and JSP 2.1 (used by Jetty). The table is probably not up-to-date; for example, check this Thread on JSTL 1.2.

IBM just released an alpha version of WebSphere Application Server 6.1 Feature Pack for Web Services. The pack includes StAX, JAX-WS 2.0 and JAXB 2.0 and, although it does not include EJB 3 nor JavaPersistence, this is one more indication of the Fast Adoption of Java EE 5.

And, regarding JAXB 2.0, we peeked under the covers and IBM's Feature Pack uses GlassFish's JAXB RI. The list now includes at least ActiveSOAP, XFire, Celtix, Axis and ServiceMix (Toolkits and JAXB RI); JBoss was also planning to use it. Component Reuse is one of the Goals of the GlassFish Community, we would like to know if you are using our components.