The Aquarium: News from the GlassFish Community

Nov 08

GlassFish v3 Prelude - Launching today!
Posted by alexismp in GlassFish

GlassFish v3 "Prelude" is launching today. Expect blogs, articles, and more throughout the day. If all you want is the bits, here they are.

This release builds on top of the Apache Felix OSGi runtime, offers great extensibility, support for Rails and Grails, developer features (fast startup, retain sessions across redeploys, NetBeans and Eclipse tooling, ...), an embedded API, Comet support, a brand new IPS-based update center, RESTful web services, a preview of several Java EE 6 features, and much more. Check out this introduction article as well as the press release, it also mentions a few partners building on top of GlassFish v3 Prelude.

Hear all about these new features in today's Online GlassFish Day. 20+ short sessions starting 8am PST.

Press
• Sun offers OSGi app server (InfoWorld)
• Sun z aplikacijskim strežnikom na arhitekturi OSGi
• Glassfish v3 Prelude (from Hungary)
• Sun Releases New GlassFish Preview (eWeek)
• Sun wydaje nową wersję serwera GlassFish z elementami Javy EE 6 (OSnews.pl)
• Sun Intros GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude (Java Entrepreneur)
• 米Sun、OSGiベースのアプリケーションサーバー「GlassFish v3 Prelude」を公開, (Enterprise Watch Japan)
• What You Can Expect From GlassFish v3 Prelude, (DZone)
• New GlassFish V3 Release Offers Preview of Java Enterprise Edition 6 , (IndicThreads)
• GlassFish v3 Prelude released, (TheServerSide)
• Jaspersoft Announces Commercial Certification for Sun GlassFish™ Enterprise Server, (NewsWire)

Others (mainly screencasts)

• GlassFish Video - Introducing GlassFish v3
• GlassFish Video - GlassFish v3 Prelude: What's New
• GlassFish Video - Java EE 6 and GlassFish
• Incremental Java Web Application Development with NetBeans 6.5 and GlassFish V3 (Save-Reload development with session preservation and automatic deployment).
• From Zero to Grails in 5 minutes with GlassFish v3 Prelude

We'll keep updating this entry with the blogs and articles as we see then pop up in the 24h to 48h or so.

Oct 08

OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 Launched
Posted by superpat in OpenSSO

OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 got off to a flying start yesterday with its launch in Second Life (event replay). The IdentiCat himself, OpenSSO senior product line manager Daniel Raskin, and director of engineering for OpenSSO, Jamie Nelson, were on hand to explain how OpenSSO meets three tough challenges of single sign-on - Web access management, federation and secure Web services.

Daniel and Jamie showed how OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0, known in its last release as Sun Access Manager, adds many new features, as well as being the first commercial release from the open source OpenSSO project. We've covered many of these features here at The Aquarium as they have appeared in OpenSSO; for instance, OpenDS as OpenSSO's embedded configuration store, the Fedlet and identity services.

Back in what passes as the real world, the OpenSSO launch was widely covered by press and analysts - I've listed some of the more interesting articles and quotes over at my blog, Superpatterns.

As Daniel explained in the Second Life presentation, there's plenty more in store for OpenSSO - the focus in upcoming releases will be on areas such as carrier-grade monitoring, yet more work on ease of use, and entitlement management. As always, we'll carry the OpenSSO headlines here at The Aquarium, but if you want to immerse yourself in the OpenSSO river of news, subscribe to Planet OpenSSO.

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