Migration time! OpenSolaris, NetBeans and Hudson have moved (part of) their infrastructure.

The OpenSolaris Website Community migrated opensolaris.org from an ad-hoc web app to XWiki on October 26th, 2009 completing phase 2 of the OpenSolaris.org transition. Check the Transition FAQ for more details. This move had been in the planning for a long time and is still unfolding. The NetBeans site moved the week of Nov 2dn to a new site, see the Announcement and the FAQ. The new NB site uses the Kenai infrastructure but is its own instance, separate from that of Kenai.org. I believe this move has completed.

The last (ongoing) move is for Hudson. Most of Hudson was at Java.Net but some parts were not - like the confluence-based wiki. After the availability problems from a couple of months ago, Kohsuke and the community decided to move the bulk to Kenai. That move is still ongoing but some key sections, like the front-page, have already moved.

In all cases, these moves are intended to be (mostly) transparent to the users (hopefully with improved QoS).

James just posted his slides from Oracle OpenWorld... except that they are a JavaFX app. For most of the prezo the App behaves as slides (<TAB> to move forward) - except for the iconic JavaFX moving clouds - but at one point he switches to a version of our GlassFish GeoMap including zooming (scroll wheel), panning (drag), dot-size calculation and dot aggregation. Check JAG's blog for an intro (and some platform constraints). Also see live app and screenshot (small, large) and the corresponding original pinkDot (live, large).

I'll add a link to James' keynote when it becomes available (probably here). Thanks to James for App (and the plug for GlassFish!) and to Paul Sterk for the raw geomap data.

Added - James James has factored out the Open Street Map Browser into its own OSMBrowser@Kenai.

Hal Stern's latest Innovating@Sun podcast interview features Peter Reiser discussing Community Equity, a social value system that measures one's online social capital. This system has been successfully used internally for over a year and is now available for general use. The Webspace team has also made an alpha integration available for GlassFish Webspace Server via its Update Center-based developer repository, enabling portal user social capital to be accurately measured (You may also remember the CommunityOne Webcast and presentation).

You can check out the spec, participate at the Kenai project site, or follow the project on Twitter.

Future works in progress include semantic integration with Kiwi, and an implementation of the Activity Streams spec (enabling deeper integration with Facebook, MySpace, StatusNet, and other social platforms).

Somehow this one popped into my head:

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
(...from A Visit from St. Nicholas)

Replace Christmas with JavaOne, and the "not stirring" with "releasing furiously"... and there we are :-)

Three major releases today: GFv3 Preview, OpenSolaris 2009.6 and NetBeans 6.7 RC1. NetBeans 6.7 comes with Connected Developer features like integration with Project Kenai and integration with Bugzilla, native Maven support, out-of-the box Grails 1.1 support, support for Hudson and easy integration with GlassFish v3 Preview. More details in the RC1 Info page, the New and Noteworthy page and the Download page. Also see the blogs by SDNNews and James.

And, if you are at JavaOne, check out TS5055 and Bob's technical keynote tomorrow afternoon.

Arun has added three new, JRuby-based entries to our Adoption Stories. The first story is about Kenai, and is a model story for GlassFish Portfolio: Apache HTTPD Server, Memcached, MySQL, JRuby and GlassFish Server (it is also a bit recursive, as JRuby lives on Kenai). The other two stories are about LinkedIn Polls and JotBot. JotBot is unusual in that JRuby is used on both client and server side.

GlassFish is taking a Detour Through SVN but since the plan is still to go to Mercurial I keep an eye on adoption news and noticed these two from BSC: OOo's Pilot Program and Ken's note on Corba and Kenai. From a quick visit to the Mercurial site some more news: • SourceForge Support • Python Switching to Hg, • GSoC Projects • Google Code Supports Hg.

Most modern projects at Sun are going to Mercurial, including OpenSolaris and OpenJDK; two that switched to Bazaar are Drizzle and MySQL. And Kenai Supports GIT, SVN and Mercurial (need to check if they plan to support Bazaar).

Added - Other related projects on Mercurial include NetBeans and JavaMail.

NetBeans 6.7 Beta is Now Available. I'll highlight two of the Many Features: Kenai Integration and Hudson Integration. The first one continues to flesh out the story of the Connected Developer; the second is yet another example of Hudson Adoption. Check out the Home Page, the Release Notes or go and just Download it!

The connected developer story is beginning to look pretty good; I'll come back to it after I find time to write a few background posts needed to provide context for the story.

Added - Also see JAG's post on the topic.

Last week Kenai went beta, with the usual services in a development hub site plus an additional "connected" angle. Our GF CORBA project is already using its Hg repository but another very interesting angle is the technology mix.

Kenai acheived development agility with reliability by using a combination of our scripting (JRuby/Rails) and enterprise (GlassFish v2, MySQL, OpenSolaris) technologies. These combinations are beginning to pop all over and are one of the key targets of GlassFish, using JRuby (see Nick's Blog site), Groovy (see Glenn's GroovyBlogs), or others. Back to Kenai, check out Tim's Interview with Nick, and some Technical Details on Caching and in Testing/Performance Methodology. Also see Pictures from Austvik, Spotlight from Arun and Lenz's Technology Overview.

A compilation of today's news of interest: